Great-Grandma's Temporary Move To Greencourt?

Border Entry, Form 30, 1919-1924

Microform: t-15264

Source  Image 1388

Canadian Immigration Service

Port: Windsor, Ontario

Form #7247

Cameron, D.R. Mrs.

Last Permanent Address:  Detroit, Mich.

Street and No.: 1017 E. Jefferson

Birthplace: Sarnia, Ontario

She can read and write in English

Religion: Presb.

Ever lived in Canada?  Yes.

Left Canada at Sarnia in 1890

Why left Canada:  To Reside

Money in possession belonging to Immigrant: $100.00

Object in coming to Canada: Settler

Destined To: Son

Archie Johnson

Greencourt, Alta

Ever been refused admission to Canada?  No

Apparent condition of health: Good

From Detroit to Windsor

Ferry

Objection to Immigrant: None

Admitted

Source Image 1387

Husband: D. R. Cameron

609 Warren Street

Flint, Michigan

Height: 5'8"

Complexion: Dark

Color of Eyes: Brown

Color of Hair: Dk Brown

Wt.: 150

Signature: Mrs. D.R. Cameron

July 30, 1920

Mr. and Mrs. Cameron were both living in Flint, Michigan, in 1930.

Archie Johnston's Attestation Paper For The Canadian Over-Seas Expeditionary Force

Archie Johnston, son of John & Anna (Cameron) Johnston, who was born in Sterling, Michigan, entered World War I in the Canadian Over-Seas Expeditionary Force. Below is Archie's Attestation Paper he submitted to become a soldier.


After the war, Archie became a naturalized Canadian citizen. His father, John Johnston was a Canadian and his mother, Anna Cameron may have been born in Canada.

Edward I. Johnston, RCAF Pilot In WWII

Edward Irvine Johnston, son of Archie & Grace (Price) Johnston, who was a pilot for the Royal Canadian Air Force, in the Book of Remembrance (1942) for the Second World War. Edward was killed on 20 December 1942 and is buried in the Amsterdam New Eastern Cemetery, Netherlands.


Edward I. Johnston was the grandson of Anna (Cameron) Johnston Cameron.

Obituary of Blanche (Johnston) Stout

The Flint Journal [Michigan] Published October 1990

Flint-Worcester

STOUT, Blanche (Johnston) -- Age 95, died Saturday, October 6, 1990, at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, Massachusetts. Services will be held 1:30 PM Saturday, October 13, 1990, at Sunset Hills Cemetery for Mrs. Blanche Stout where she will be interred along with her daughter, Jean Webster, who passed away January 20, 1988. Rev. Fr. Amos Wischmeyer will officiate. Contributions may be made to the Citizens for Life, the Leukemia Foundation of Michigan, or a charity of choice. Mrs. Stout was born in Sterling, Michigan, July 2, 1895, the daughter of Archie [sic] and Annie Johnston. She had been a resident of Roscommon, Sterling and the Flint area, and for the past 5 years, Shrewsbury, Mass. where she had lived with her daughter, Jean Webster. She married Warren L. Stout; he preceded her in death in 1977. She was a retired buyer for Herbert H. Bush & Sons Clothing Store in Flint. Surviving are: grandson, (living); granddaughter (living) 5 great-grandchildren (living).
Sharp Funeral Home, 8138 Miller Rd.

[Blanche was the step-daughter of Donald (AKA Daniel) Cameron and daughter of Anna (Cameron) Johnston ; see the 1900 census]

Mrs. June (Wodtke) Belanger

Learning more about June (Wodtke) Belanger while in the Baton Rouge, Louisiana, area:


Obituary from the Resthaven Gardens of Memory:

BELANGER, MRS. JUNE THELMA
Died Friday, Oct. 29, 1976, at her residence, 1933 Potwin Drive, Baton Rouge. She was 56, a native of Flint, Mich. Body at Hollabaugh-Spindle's Woodale Memorial Chapel with visiting from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday. Religious services at 11 a.m. Monday at the funeral home chapel. Burial in Resthaven Gardens of Memory. Survived by her husband, Kenneth Belanger Sr., Baton Rouge; father, Fred Wodtke, Florida; two daughters.....both of Pensacola, Fla.; one son..., Baton Rouge; a daughter-in-law...one sister, Mrs. Theodore Long, Port Herron (sic), Mich; one brother, Frederick Wodtke, Flint, Mich.; three grandchildren. Pallbearers: Johnny Huff, Warren Huff, Cecil Jarreau, David Wilson, John Heinrich, and Mitch Harris.

June was the daughter of Fred & Isabelle (Johnston) Wodtke and the granddaughter of John & Anna (Cameron) Johnston (step-granddaughter of Donald Cameron). She was the great-granddaughter of Duncan & Ellen (Cameron) Cameron.

June's mother, Isabelle, died when she was an infant, in Flint, Genesee Co., Michigan. Is that why my grandmother (Isabelle's half sister) and my great-aunt Blanche (Isabelle's sister) did not talk to me about the Wodtke family while growing up?

Anna Cameron's Daughter, Belle Johnston Wodtke

Great-Aunt Belle whom I never knew:

This record is an example of the records available to through the Flint Genealogical Society upon request. Since this record was requested, the actual death records are available online at Archives of Michigan (1897 - 1920) for the State of Michigan, including a death record for Isabelle (Belle Johnston) Wodtke.

Fred & Belle (Johnston) Wodtke had an infant daughter, June (born in May 1920), when Belle died. My aunt (June Wodtke's cousin), who was quite a bit younger than June, remembers an occasional visit with her. However, information that I have about this family is sketchy, except for what I have pieced together the census, obituaries, etc.

Flint Journal [ 3 June 1920]
WODTKE--Mrs. Belle Wodtke died last night at her home, 919 Wood-st, after a six months' illness of a complication of diseases. Mrs. Wodtke was born at Houghton Lake, [Roscommon Co.] Mich., July 20, 1890, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B.R. Cameron. She had lived in this city for the last six years, coming here from Sterling, Mich. She was united in marriage to Fred J. Wodtke, July 19, 1919. Mrs. Wodtke was a member of the German Lutheran Church. She leaves her husband, parents and two brothers and five sisters. [Note: She was the step-daughter of Donald R. Cameron and the daughter of John H. & Anna (Cameron) Johnston]

1930 MI (Genesee Co.)
WODTKE, FRED, 32, MI MI MI, married at age 24
" Myrtle, wife, 27, married at age 19
" June, daughter, age 9
" Shirley, daughter, age 5
KAGAN, Omer, married, lodger
" , Rose, married, lodger

I believe (but do not know) that June's husband was the Kenneth Belanger, Sr., whose obituary was in the Pensacola News Journal on 24 September 2004.

Kenneth Richard Belanger, Sr., 86, of Pensacola, died Tuesday September 21, 2004, in a local nursing home.

Ken was born Nov. 22, 1917 in International Falls, MN and has resided most of his life in the Pensacola area. He served in the U.S. Navy during WWII and was a retired Steel Pattern Maker.
His beloved wife, June Wodtke Belanger, preceded Kenneth in death. Kenneth will be laid to rest next to his beloved wife June at Resthaven Cemetery, Baton Rouge, La., Saturday, September 25, 2004 at 1:00 p.m. Harper-Morris Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

June BELANGER
Birth Date: 25 May 1920
Death Date: Oct 1976
Social Security Number: 379-12-3462
State or Territory Where Number Was Issued: Michigan
Death Benefit Localities
Zip Code: 70816
Localities: Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Wish I knew more about this family.