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- written by Georgia Haines
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION:
Addie was born in Wakarusa, Indiana. Her parents and two brothers, Guy and Harry moved from there to Hillsdale, MI, but may have lived also at Litchfield and Homer, MI. This is according to a letter from her daughter, Dorothy to Clela William s Van Amburg. In her adult life Addie was a clerk. Her husband, George Beck, was a salesman for Prudential and a nursery man. At some unknown date they were divorced, and she married Frank Perkins. After his death she married again to someon e with last name, McGee. After his death she again took the name of Beck.
She lived at 90 N. Norwood Ave. in Hillsdale and is buried in Lake View Cemetery in Hillsdale next to her grandparents, Andrew J. and Harriet Hannah Huggins Williams. Clyde and Dorothy Aker are buried in the same area, as well as two Shoemake r men (one, Henry, a Civil War veteran). These men, Henry and William (Billy) were called uncle by Addie. They are step brothers of her grandfather, Andrew. Andrew was born in 1832 and in 1834 his mother, Mary Coy Williams, married John Shoema ker in Trumbull County, Ohio. Dates of birth on the graves of Henry and William are 1841 and 1849 respectively, however in the 1850 census in Portage County, Ohio William is listed as age 5.
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