Kalamazoo County MI Archives Photo Tombstone.....Branch, Owen G. & Ida M. 
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Cemetery:           Sand Lake Cemetery, Pavilion Township
Name:               Owen G. & Ida M. Branch

Date Of Photograph: May 28, 2002
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Owen G. Branch  1869 - 1954 and Ida Margaret (Giem) Branch 1871 - 1957.  Owen
George Branch, born June 14,1869 in Portage, Kalamazoo County, MI, son of Thomas
Branch (buried in Sand Lake Cemetery) and Jane Burstow Branch, stepson of Elery
F. Briggs (buried in Sand Lake Cemetery, married Ida Margaret Giem in 1892.  Ida
Margaret Giem, born December 17, 1871 in New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas County,
Ohio, daughter of Albert Giem and Sara Ann Rigby (both buried in Sand Lake),
moved from Ohio to Portage Mi with her parents in 1889. Owen and Ida owned and
operated a farm between Austion and Long lakes and resided on 24th St. and R.
Avenue.  Their children were: Lloyd A.(buried in Sand Lake), Irene Waive, Clair
A. and Letha (buried in Sand Lake).  Owen and Ida had residential developments
at Austin and Long Lake.  Owen's brother Alfred and Alva, and Ida's brother
Frank, are buried in Sand Lake.


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