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From: "Bonnie Burkhardt" <>
Subject: Re: [MIHURON] Nijay SPRAGUE
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 21:53:05 -0400
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See if you can contact any of his sons and daughters.

Bonnie Burkhardt jm86it at wowway dot com
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From: "Dotty Cole" <>
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Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 6:05 PM
Subject: [MIHURON] Nijay SPRAGUE


>I am hoping someone can help me. In doing research on the Sprague name in
>Michigan I came across one Nijay Sprague. That name intrigued me so I went
>looking for Nijay in censuses and did not find him in 1910, 1920 nor 1930.
>Here is his obit and also the obit of his second wife.
>
> http://archive.lib.msu.edu/MMM/EH/02/a/EH02a021.pdf
>>From The Progress Advance July 6, 1983 p 14
> Nijay Sprague, 82, Bay Port, passed away Monday, June 27 at the Huron
> County Medical Care Facility, near Bad Axe, after a long illness.
> He was Born June 20, 1900, in Bay Port.
> Nijay Sprague married Miss Ethel Lintner, who preceded him in death in
> 1958.
> He married Mabel DeLena Harder on September 26, 1959 at St. John's
> Lutheran Church, Berne.
> He was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church, Berne and was employed for
> 62 years at the Bay Port Fish Company, retiring in 1977.
> Surviving are his wife, Mabel, Bay Port; five sons, Russell Sprague,
> Harold Sprague and Robert Sprague, all of Bay Port; Edwin Sprague,
> Essexville and Gilbert Sprague, Owendale; two daughters, Mrs. Clifford
> (Mary) Turmell, Bay City and Mrs. Robert (Delores) Micklson, Bay Port;
> three stepsons, Weaverdale Harder, Florida, George Harder, Bay Port, and
> Sampson Harder, Sebewaing; four step daughters, Mrs. Bernard (Iola) Kreh,
> Caro, Mrs. Susanne VanDeVoort and Mrs. Roxanna Grigg, both of Bay Port,
> Mrs. Burma Gettel, Sebewaing; 23 grandchildren;22 step grandchildren: 26
> great granchildren; 6 step great grandchildren; and four great great
> grandchildren.
> One stepson, Simeon Harder, preceded him in death.
> Funeral services were conducted Thursday, by the Rev. Philip Press, pastor
> of St. John's Lutheran Church, Berne, with burial in the New Bay Port
> Cemetery, Bay Port.
> Memorials may be made to St. John's Lutheran Church, Berne.
>
> Mabel D. Sprague, 98, of Caro and formerly of Bay Port, died Monday, May
> 14, 2007 at the Tuscola County Medical Care Facility in Caro. She was born
> March 17, 1909 in Pinnebog, daughter of the late Albert and DeLena
> (Mayhew) St. George. She was married to George Harder in 1927. He preceded
> her in death in 1953. She then married Nijay Sprague on Sept. 26, 1959. He
> died June 27, 1983. Mabel was a member of St. John Lutheran Church in
> Berne. She enjoyed crocheting, playing cards, doing puzzles and especially
> enjoyed visiting with family and friends.
> Surviving are her children, Iola (Bernard) Kreh of Caro, George (Marjean)
> Harder, Roxanna Albrecht, all of Bay Port, Burma (Lyle) Gettel of
> Sebewaing, step-children, Russell Sprague, Robert (Shirley) Sprague,
> Dolores Mitchell, all of Bay Port, Edwin Sprague of Essexville, Mary
> (Clifford) Turmell of Bay City; 23 grandchildren; 17 step-grandchildren;
> numerous great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren; and many
> nieces and nephews.
> She was preceded in death by four sons, Elvin, Weaver, Simeon, and Sampson
> Harder; one daughter, Susanne Young; step-sons, Gilbert and Harold
> Sprague; great-grandson, Cody Graf; and great-great-granddaughter, Clare
> Foreman. Funeral service will take place at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, May 16,
> 2007 at the Dinkel-Juengel Funeral Home in Sebewaing. The Rev. James A.
> Gorsegner will officiate with burial in New Bay Port Cemetery, Bay Port.
> Visitation will be from 2 to 9 p.m. Tuesday and from 9 a.m. until the time
> of service Wednesday at Dinkel-Juengel Funeral Home in Sebewaing.
> Memorials may be made to St. John's Lutheran Church. Huron Daily Tribune
> 5/15/2007.
>
> By searching for first name only, I did find a Nijay Widerman about the
> correct age in 1920 census:
>
> 1920 United States Federal Census > Michigan > Huron > Fairhaven >
> District 9
> Name Age
> William G Lobdell 58
> Amelia Lobdell 48
> Arthur E Lobdell 26
> Andrew J Lobdell 20
> Melva L Lobdell 9
> William M Lobdell 6
> Nijay Widerman 19 single boarder born MI parents born Canada/MI laborer
> fishery
>
> Can anyone help me solve this mystery?
>
> Dotty Sprague Cole
> Lake Mary, Florida
>
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