Individual Details
Celia Woodward
(Jul 1869 - 1918)
Info from Lance Bates GEDCOM Hamp Book pages 91,177 Celia died in 1918 as the result of a house
fire that erupted when she threw kerosine on some live coal fires in the cook stove as she was making a fire to cook supper The can of kereosene blew up, enveloping her in flames.
she survived only two or three days.
1900 census says that the had 4 children, three alive in 1900.
from Robert Ward: "My Grandma Lida was telling me about Edwin's Hamp's wife Celina losing her life in a house fire. She was firing up the stove and it flared up burned her badly and she died of the burns. Edwin spent some time with Eli and Ada Hamp in Alma and then moved on...."
3 Mar 1980...Vance Marshall says she died at Lake Fenton, a small community near Fenton Michigan, when an oil stove exploded and burned her to death. Uncle Lawtence (who lives with Vance) says his mother wrote to him of this when he was in the Army in 1918.
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Info from Lance Bates GEDCOM Hamp Book pages 91,177 Celia died in 1918 as the result of a house
fire that erupted when she threw kerosine on some live coal fires in the cook stove as she was making a fire to cook supper The can of kereosene blew up, enveloping her in flames.
she survived only two or three days.
1900 census says that the had 4 children, three alive in 1900.
from Robert Ward: "My Grandma Lida was telling me about Edwin's Hamp's wife Celina losing her life in a house fire. She was firing up the stove and it flared up burned her badly and she died of the burns. Edwin spent some time with Eli and Ada Hamp in Alma and then moved on...."
3 Mar 1980...Vance Marshall says she died at Lake Fenton, a small community near Fenton Michigan, when an oil stove exploded and burned her to death. Uncle Lawtence (who lives with Vance) says his mother wrote to him of this when he was in the Army in 1918.
fire that erupted when she threw kerosine on some live coal fires in the cook stove as she was making a fire to cook supper The can of kereosene blew up, enveloping her in flames.
she survived only two or three days.
1900 census says that the had 4 children, three alive in 1900.
from Robert Ward: "My Grandma Lida was telling me about Edwin's Hamp's wife Celina losing her life in a house fire. She was firing up the stove and it flared up burned her badly and she died of the burns. Edwin spent some time with Eli and Ada Hamp in Alma and then moved on...."
3 Mar 1980...Vance Marshall says she died at Lake Fenton, a small community near Fenton Michigan, when an oil stove exploded and burned her to death. Uncle Lawtence (who lives with Vance) says his mother wrote to him of this when he was in the Army in 1918.
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Info from Lance Bates GEDCOM Hamp Book pages 91,177 Celia died in 1918 as the result of a house
fire that erupted when she threw kerosine on some live coal fires in the cook stove as she was making a fire to cook supper The can of kereosene blew up, enveloping her in flames.
she survived only two or three days.
1900 census says that the had 4 children, three alive in 1900.
from Robert Ward: "My Grandma Lida was telling me about Edwin's Hamp's wife Celina losing her life in a house fire. She was firing up the stove and it flared up burned her badly and she died of the burns. Edwin spent some time with Eli and Ada Hamp in Alma and then moved on...."
3 Mar 1980...Vance Marshall says she died at Lake Fenton, a small community near Fenton Michigan, when an oil stove exploded and burned her to death. Uncle Lawtence (who lives with Vance) says his mother wrote to him of this when he was in the Army in 1918.
Events
| Birth | Jul 1869 | Sumner, Gratiot County, Michigan |  | ||
| Marriage | 9 Nov 1889 | Seville Township, Gratiot, Michigan, United States - Edwin Sylvester Hamp | |||
| Residence | 1900 | Seville Township, Gratiot, Michigan, United States | | ||
| Residence | 1900 | Seville Township, Gratiot, Michigan, United States | | ||
| Death | 1918 | Michigan | |||
| Burial | French Cemetery, Elwell, Gratiot, Michigan, United States |
Families
| Spouse | Edwin Sylvester Hamp (1863 - 1940) |
| Child | Pearl M. Hamp (1890 - ) |
| Child | Gladys E. Hamp (1894 - ) |
| Child | Edwin Jehial Hamp (1895 - 1963) |
Endnotes
1. 1900 Census, Gratiot County, Seville Twp., Michigan 52B.
2. 1900 Census, Gratiot County, Seville Twp., Michigan 52B.
3. 1900 Census, Gratiot County, Seville Twp., Michigan 52B.