Name: Beacon reports two Beaver Island-connected wedding anniversaries, 1961
Start: 1961-11-23
End: 1961-11-26
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Dates: 1961-11-23 – 1961-11-26
Kind: Marriage
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: communitydemographyreligion
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The December 1961 community column reports William and Clara Schmidt’s 34th wedding anniversary on November 23 and William and Mary Parker’s 50th anniversary on November 26. The notices preserve Beaver Island birth, residence, family, and church-connection details without converting them into a complete genealogy.

Evidence and limits

These are newspaper anniversary notices, not civil or parish records. The combined article preserves the two reports without asserting identities for unnamed children or grandchildren.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, December 1961, “Congratulations.”
Reports William and Clara Schmidt’s 34th anniversary on November 23, their Beaver Island births and lifelong residence, Holy Cross marriage, five children, and thirteen grandchildren. It also reports William and Mary Parker’s 50th anniversary on November 26, Mary’s Beaver Island family connections, their LaCrosse Catholic Church marriage in Manistique, and their six children, 25 grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. It does not provide civil or parish certificates.
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Beaver Beacon, December 1961, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held six-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published notice or report; it does not expand the source-specific identity, event, or outcome claims.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Beacon reports two Beaver Island-connected wedding anniversaries, 1961”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-wedding-anniversaries-november-1961/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, December 1961, “Congratulations.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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