- Date
- 1969-01
- Kind
- Migration
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- migrationcommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
After Sheldon Parker retired from Oldsmobile at the end of 1968, he and Bea Parker moved from St. Johns to their Font Lake home for the winter. The January 1969 Beaver Beacon noted that they had spent many summers on the Island and regularly returned for deer season.
Evidence and limits
The notice does not provide a property record, exact move date, or complete residence history.
Sources
- Reports Sheldon and Bea Parker moving up from St. Johns for the winter after Sheldon retired from Oldsmobile, to their Font Lake home; it does not provide a property record, exact move date, or complete residence history.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1969-01_Beaver-Beacon
- The held six-page issue scan is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the new-residents notice.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1969-01_Beaver-Beacon
Added 6 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Sheldon and Bea Parker take up a Beaver Island winter residence, 1969”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-new-arrivals-january-1969/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, January 1969, “New Arrivals.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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