Week 2 2026 - A record that adds color - Sheridan / Yaw


My mom had a cousin named Grace Pearl Green. She was a distant cousin; technically, she was a 1st cousin 2x removed.  Grace's great-grandmother was Sylvia Bliss Yaw who was my mother's 2x great-grandmother. Sylvia Yaw was also a direct line descendant of John Howland of the Mayflower.

Grace was born 26 July 1883 in Jackson, Jackson County, Michigan. She was the only living child of George L Green and Alice Fairfield Green.  Her father George was a railroad salesman in his early working years after having started his career as a bagman. By the 1910 census, he was a paper salesman, and in April 1917 he purchased managing shares in the Crown Paper & Bag Company based in Jackson, Michigan. The company sold brown paper bags and brown paper shipping materials.


January 31, 1918 - The Jackson Patriot newspaper

On February 2, 1928, George stated that he was heading home due to having some chest pains. He was discovered deceased in his car about fifteen minutes later by an employee. His wife Alice had died in 1912 from Leptospirosis (bacterial infection from contact with contaminated water or soil). 


          
                     Alice Fairfield Green                                                       George L Green


After Alice died, George had remarried to Pearl Lamb in 1921. Alice is buried in Woodland Cemetery in Jackson, Michigan in a plot owned by George. But George and his second wife are buried in a different plot in the same cemetery. Maybe Pearl (Lamb) Green was also a bit 'green with envy' about the previous wife?

The daughter Grace Green married Melville Sanford April 20, 1904, in Jackson, Michigan. Her new husband was also a railroad salesman. But Grace traveled with her husband, and they also lived in Bradford, Pennsylvania, Los Angeles, California and when Grace died in 1926, they were living in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Melville switched to selling oil and worked with the Cosden Oil & Gas Company for a number of years. He then left Oklahoma and went to California where he worked in the motion picture industry. I was not successful in finding anything more about that endeavor. 

Grace Pearl Green Sanford

Grace is buried in Jackson, Michigan but Melville is buried in San Gabriel, California. Their only living son Jack Sanford lived in Oklahoma and was also involved in the oil industry.

I have a few pictures from Grandma Sheridan's Prince side that were identified but not connected to people in my family tree. Now we know a little bit more about them. It's always good to grow our family.

Barbie

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