Benjamin SWEET

                   BIRTH:Family Records;Letter from orphanage in St.Paul,MN;
MARR:Copy of marriage cert from Carlton County,MN;
DEATH:Headstone;Death Cert Salt Lake City,Salt Lake,UT page 414;
BURIAL:Headstone;
LDS:

Grandma died of a complications from a bowel obstruction.  Son Lawrence Carter
was the informant on the death certificate.

Other Sources:
LDS Archive Sheet

Grandmother's mother Rosella died young and the four children were placed in an
orphanage when their father either didn't or couldn't take care of them.  After
Rosella died there was a fire in Hinkley (there is a book written about the
fire)  and Grandmother was the one to get her brother's and sister's to safety.
Her brother John ran away from the orphanage and Grandmother was taken in by the
the Cliff Dunham family who she lived with until she married Grandpa Carter.
After she and Grandpa came to Utah she sent for her sister Winnie who came to
live with them and died shortly after she came.

Grandma evidently didn't have any family information that she recorded for the
family.  They knew she had family in Iowa but no records.  All pictures and
records could have been burned in the Hinckley fire.

My father James Lawrence Carter had a family sheet prepared by someone and my
parents couldn't remember who had prepared it but thought it had been given to
them by Ida Callon's daughter Frankie on a visit to California to see her.
                  

                   BIRTH:Letter from orphanage in St.Paul,MN;
DEATH:Cert # 117 Missoula County,Montana;
BURIAL:In the Catholic Cemetary in Missoula;

Unable to locate a headstone in the Catholic Cemetary per visit by Lawrence
Carter,nephew.  He was accidentally drowned while working on dam at
Hellgate Twp., Bonner City, Missoula MT. The body was recovered Jul 3 1908.
                  

                   BIRTH:Family Records;Letter from Child Welfare Dept in St. Paul,MN;
MARR:Copy Appl. for spousal annuity for wife Frances,Cleveland # MA 349918;
11-24-1954; DEATH:Cert # 25249 Erie County,PA;
BURIAL:Death Cert 25249 Erie County,PA;Headstone;

Other Sources:
1910 Federal Census Ashtabula,Ashtabula,OH GSF# 1,375,165;
There is a Thomas Coakley and wife Emma living next to John and Gertrude.  This
appears to be Gertrude's parents.
1920 federal census  Harbor Creek Twp.,West District fhl# 1,821,567;
Al,Lucile and Deanne Sweet supplied family information on this family.
June Sweet Bules, Gladys Nash Sweet and Pearl Fye Sweet also supplied family
information on their families.

Unable to locate a marriage certificate in Ashtubula County,OH where the
children were born. All family members including a sister of Gertrude's said
the marriage was in Ashtabula but there is no record.
Frances said married three years in the 1910 fed. census so they would have
been married before 16 Apr 1907.

Have copy of application for annuity for Frances for John's Railroad
retirement.  She gave the marriage date as 20 Aug 1907 in Kenmore,New York;
Question on the middle initial for John on this application.  It looked like an
M and we have his middle name as Lawrence  which seems reasonable as his sister
Myrtle named her second son Lawrence.
                  

                   BIRTH:Letter from orphanage in St. Paul,MN;Death Cert 300 BoxElder County,UT;
DEATH:Cert # 300 Box Elder County,UT;
BURIED:Death Cert;Headstone;

There is a conflict on date of death and burial of Winnie. Headstone said
died Mar 13 1905. Used the headstone date.  Cert said 18 Mar 1905. Looked like
it had been changed from the 11th. Cert said burial permission granted 12 Mar
1905. There is not date of burial on the cert.

Winnie stayed in the orphanage in St.Paul till her sister Myrtle was able to
bring her to live with her in Garland,Utah where she died of Tuberculosis.
I wrote to the Dept of Child Welfare in St.Paul and the sent me a picture of her
that was in her file.