The Wilson Family Bible

In  2015, I created a Wilson Family Bible document, in PDF  format. When Mike and I were in Manistee during August 2006, I took pictures of  four pages of the Wilson Family Bible:Holy Matrimony, Births, Marriages, and Deaths.

I created an index from the information on those pages. I found two errors.

1. The year for Pansy's wedding (second time) to Stolte was off by a year. 
2. It stated my grandmother Ellen had married on June 27. Cook County records show a marriage license dated 5 April 1913 for Ellen Wilson and Arthur Grenier. The bible did not list a year, but the entry was between marriages that took place in 1910 and 1915.

Daughter Florence was born on May 12, 1913. Evidently, the marriage was not planned.

Since my father was born in 1906, the 1913 Cook County information led son Jeff to ask me, "did you know your father was illegitimate?" I certainly did not. The family bible entry supports this belief.

My father's birth is listed as Bertie McCall September 11, 1906. I have a tape recording of my uncle Gene Grenier discussing the family bible, with his uncle Milton Wilson, during a visit in 1984.  When he came to the name Bertie McCall, he asked Milton, "Who is this?"  Milton answered, "Herb." This further supports the belief that Arthur Grenier was not his father.