Marriage of Anna Allendorf and Albert Dickerson, Ogden, Lenawee County, Michigan

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Marriage of Anna Allendorf and Albert Dickerson

This is from the newletter of the Lenawee County Family Researchers, this from
Vol 2, No 5 April 1989 (the newsletter has now changed it's name to Lenawee
County Researchers) Their source listed as: 'From the Lenawee County
Historical Society card index file'. Source there indicated as "A Hudson
Michigan Newspaper". Dated February 13, 1891. 

Wedding Plans are Made Deputy Sheriff Harrington returned to Blissfield last
week with Albert Dickerson of Ogden whom he had arrested near Coleman, 40
miles south of Saginaw on a warrent sworn before Justice McCann by Miss Anna
Allendorf of Riga. The young man will settle the matter by marrying the young
lady. 

OH, a follow up news article: 

>From the Adrian Weekly Press, dated February 20, 1891: 

Albert Dickerson of Ogden and Anna Allendorf of Riga, have been Mr. and Mrs.
Dickerson since Sunday of last week. 


And.... 

When asked if Mr. and Mrs. Dickerson were any relation, Jeannette Dickerson
(Lenawee County Researchers Newsletter Editor) responded  "Yes, the Albert
Dickerson mentioned in the article was my husband's grandfather. I became
interested in family research in Sept of 1983. In December I attended an open
house at the museum and discovered the obituary file. This was my first great
discovery. Imagine my excitement at finding the article about the 'shotgun
wedding.' it was so cleaverly written." 

Jeannette contined.... " Albert and Anna became the parents of 16 children. My
father-in-law was one of the younger
children. He has made the remark that they would go to bed at night and the
next morning when they would get up, his mother was at the cookstove and a new
baby was lying in a cradle beside the stove. Family stories say that Anna
never traveled further frum home than Blissfield. 

She died in 1926 at age 54 from pneumonia. There are just two of her children
still alive."   (1998)