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First Name:
Mary
Last Name:
Gramer
Type: Light Keeper Female
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Middle Initial:
D.
Born:
1861
Died:
1960
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Place:
Title / Position:
Principal Lighthouse Keeper
Year Started:
1906
Year Departed:
1906
Begin Salary:
560
Source:
Register of Lighthouse Keepers
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Entered Date:
Oct 12, 2018
Wife of Keeper August Gramer.
Married August (Gus) Gramer - October 7, 1901 in Detroit, Michigan. 5 Children were born from this marriage. August was the lighthouse keeper in Ecorse.
Olesta Gramer
Macy Joseph Gramer
Almira Mary Gramer
Eloda Margaret Gramer
Grace Gramer
In 1903 August was charged with assault and almost lynched in the town of Ecorse for beating Mary with a broom and other objects. They reconciled and split multiple times. Finally divorcing around 1910.
In 1912, Mary wed Antoine Arthur Beaudry. 4 Children were born from this marriage before they divorced in 1929.
Patricia Celestine Beaudry
Marie Antoinette Beaudry
Twins - Milward J & Milton J Beaudry
In 1937 she married Ambrose Emanuel Reif Sr - who was the widower of her younger sister Della Pomerville.