Arenac County MI Archives Photo Tombstone.....DeFord, Elmer M. ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Diana Catlin catlindiana@yahoo.com September 28, 2011, 6:23 pm Cemetery: Clayton Township Cemetery Name: Elmer M. DeFord Date Of Photograph: September 16, 2011 Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/arenac/photos/tombstones/claytontownship/deford191119nph.jpg Image file size: 212.4 Kb STONE READS: DEFORD ANNA ELMER 1885 - 1939 1880 - 1969 Additional Comments: Elmer M. DeFord was born Dec 17, 1880 in Clayton Township, Bay/Arenac County Michigan to Flora (Smith) and Ambrose DeFord, the eldest of five children. He was a grandson of Nelson DeFord and Henry Mason Smith. He worked as a rail engineer and farmer. Elmer married Anna B. Cross Jan. 1, 1918 in Alpena Michigan. In the early 1920's they moved to Flint Michigan where he worked as a machinist in an auto factory. They had two children, a son and a daughter. Anna died in 1939 and Elmer remarried Maggie Reed in 1949. He died in Twinning, Arenac County Michigan in 1969. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/arenac/photos/tombstones/claytontownship/deford191119nph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb