by debbie.storbeck@gmail.com
My Great Uncle Chauncey served in the Merchant Marines from 1927-1962. Chauncey Chester Crosby, born September 11, 1898, was the first of four sons born to Charles F Crosby and Charlotte H Fuller.This is a journal or book that he kept. There are three logs in the small black notebook. The first log, kept on paper that fits notebook rings began on 31 March 1951 in Buffalo, New York. Note on these log pages that he has a stick figure notation, I wonder what it means?
There are 2 other logs, on smaller pages that are attached through 2 rings of the notebook. One begins on June 18, 1952 in Sandusky, Ohio and the other begins April 27, 1958 in Buffalo, New York. The notebook is in the collection of Deborah Storbeck on 19 March 2016.
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Page 3 a magazine clipping
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Page 10 and Page 11 when opened make a nice map of Michigan. I cannot figure how to place them side by side.
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1951
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Page 25 Blank Page
Page 26 This begins smaller sheets that are connected in 2 of the 6 notebook rings.
1952
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1958
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Crane boat west of Buffalo
Page 54 Chauncey Crosby on right in dark glasses.
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Page 58 Magazine Clipping
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END OF BOOK
To see The Sullivan locking through the Soo Locks, begin this video at the 3:55 point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHZLw6e_h8w&feature=youtu.be
Photographs of The Sullivan. I do not have sources to cite, if you can give them to me I'd like to cite
them.
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Unused Envelope from the collection of Deborah Storbeck 18 March 2016.
Merchant Marine Records from the collection of Christy J Kladiva, 18 March 2016.
Certified Copy Record of Birth, State of Michigan, County of Saginaw. Original, Collection of Deborah Storbeck 19 March 2016.
1910
US Census Tuscola County, Michigan.
Population Schedule Juniata Township.
Enumeration District (ED) 123, Page 9B, Enumeration Date 5 May 1910,
Enumerated by James Kirk, Dwelling Number136,
Family Number 139. Digital Image,
Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com):
accessed 27 June 2014 citing National Archives microfilm publication
Roll: T624_676. Line 71 Charles F Crosby, Head, Male, White, Age 38,
Married, Years Married 12 years, Place of Birth Michigan, Father Place of Birth
Michigan, Mother Place of Birth New York, Language spoken English, Occupation
Junk Dealer, Reads, Writes, Rents home, Farm.
Charlotte H Crosby, Wife, Female, White, Age 30, Married 12
years, Number Born 4, Number Living 4, Place of Birth Michigan, Father Place of
Birth New York, Mother Place of Birth English Canada, Language English, Reads,
Writes. Chauncey C Crosby, Son,
Male, White, Age 11, Single, Place of Birth Michigan, Father Place of Birth
Michigan, Mother Place of Birth Michigan, Language English, Reads, Writes, In
School. Ralph Crosby, Son, Male, White
Age 10, Single, Place of Birth Michigan, Father Place of Birth Michigan, Mother
Place of Birth Michigan, Language English, Reads, Writes, In School. Ferner Crosby, Son, Male, White, Age
3, Place of Birth Michigan, Father Place of Birth Michigan, Mother Place of
Birth Michigan. Louis L Crosby,
Son, Male, White Age 1 7/12, Place of Birth Michigan, Father Place of Birth
Michigan, Mother Place of Birth Michigan.
U.S. World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, Michigan, Shiawassee, Draft Card C. Accessed on-line at Ancestry.com, 19 March 2016.
1910
US Census Tuscola County, Michigan.
Population Schedule Juniata Township.
Enumeration District (ED) 123, Page 9B, Enumeration Date 5 May 1910,
Enumerated by James Kirk, Dwelling Number136,
Family Number 139. Digital Image,
Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com):
accessed 27 June 2014 citing National Archives microfilm publication
Roll: T624_676. Line 71 Charles F Crosby, Head, Male, White, Age 38,
Married, Years Married 12 years, Place of Birth Michigan, Father Place of Birth
Michigan, Mother Place of Birth New York, Language spoken English, Occupation
Junk Dealer, Reads, Writes, Rents home, Farm.
Charlotte H Crosby, Wife, Female, White, Age 30, Married 12
years, Number Born 4, Number Living 4, Place of Birth Michigan, Father Place of
Birth New York, Mother Place of Birth English Canada, Language English, Reads,
Writes. Chauncey C Crosby, Son,
Male, White, Age 11, Single, Place of Birth Michigan, Father Place of Birth
Michigan, Mother Place of Birth Michigan, Language English, Reads, Writes, In
School. Ralph Crosby, Son, Male, White
Age 10, Single, Place of Birth Michigan, Father Place of Birth Michigan, Mother
Place of Birth Michigan, Language English, Reads, Writes, In School. Ferner Crosby, Son, Male, White, Age
3, Place of Birth Michigan, Father Place of Birth Michigan, Mother Place of
Birth Michigan. Louis L Crosby,
Son, Male, White Age 1 7/12, Place of Birth Michigan, Father Place of Birth
Michigan, Mother Place of Birth Michigan.
1930 U S Census Colfax Township, Benzie County,
Michigan. Population Schedule,
Enumeration District (ED) 10-7, Sheet 2-B, Enumeration Date 11 April 1930,
Enumerated By Clarence J Strong, Dwelling 46, Family 49. Digital Image, Ancestry.com
(http://ancestry.com accessed 15 August 2014); citing Family History Library
microfilm 2330709, Roll 974, Image 515.0. LINE 92 C S Crossby, Head, Home Owned,
Value of Home 3000, No Radio, Yes Farm, Male, White, Age 58, Married, Age at
First Marriage, 25, Not in School, Reads and Write, Place of Birth Michigan.
Father Place of Birth Michigan, Mother Place of Birth New York, Speaks English,
Farmer Laborer, Helps his sons on Farm, Veteran yes, WW. Line 93 Charlotte Crossby, Wife,
White, Age 50, Married, Age at First Marriage 18, Not in School, Reads and
Writes, Place of Birth Michigan, Father Place of Birth New York, Mother Place
of Birth Canada/ English, Speaks English.
LINE 94 Chauncey Crossby, Son, Male, White, Age 31, Single, Not
in School, Reads and Writes, Place of Birth Michigan, Father Place of Birth Michigan,
Mother Place of Birth Michigan, Speaks English, Farmer, Veteran yes, WW. Line 95 Ferner Crossby, Son, Male,
White, Age 25, Single, Not in School, Reads and Writes, Place of Birth
Michigan, Father Place of Birth Michigan, Mother Place of Birth Michigan,
Speaks English, Farmer, Veteran yes, WW.
LINE 96 Louis Crossby, Son, Male, White, Age 21, Single, Not in
School, Reads and Writes, Place of Birth Michigan, Father Place of Birth
Michigan, Mother Place of Birth Michigan, Speaks English, Painter, Not a
Veteran.
1940 U S Census Colfax Township, Benzie County, Michigan. Population Schedule, Enumeration District
(ED) 10-8, Sheet 1-A, Dwelling 11. Enumerated By Lewis M Wold,
Enumeration Date 3 April 1940
Digital Image, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com accessed 16 August
2014); Citing National Archives and Records Administration Roll T627_1730. LINE 28 Fernest Crosby, Owns Farm,
Value 800, Head, Male, White, Age 33, Single, 3 Years of High School, Place of
Birth Michigan, Same House in 1935, Farmer.
LINE 29 Charlotte Crosby, Mother, Female, White, Age 60, Married,
8 Years of School, Place of Birth Michigan, Same House in 1935. Household Number 13 Line 34 Chauncey
Crosby, Owns Farm, Value 100, Head, Male, White, Age 41, Single, 3 Years of
High School, Place of Birth Michigan, Same House in 1935 No, 1935
Benzie,
Michigan, Farmer, Farm. WHERE IS
CHARLES F CROSBY?
Certified Certificate of Death, Detroit Department of Health, Vital Statistics Division, Vital Statistics Division. Original, collection of Deborah Storbeck 19 March 2016.
Thompsonville Cemetery, Benzie County, Michigan.
Photo taken by Deborah Storbeck.
Charlotte H Fuller-Crosby, Chauncey C Crosby and Charles F Crosby 1899. ALL PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE COLLECTION OF NANCY STILWELL 19 MARCH 2016.
Charlotte H Fuller-Crosby, Ralph R Crosby, Baby Ferner F Crosby, Chauncey C Crosby and Charles F Crosby. About 1906-07.
NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
Benzie Banner April 19, 1923 page 3, Benzie Shores District Library, (http://www.archive.com/benzie/search) accessed on-line 23 March 2015.
Benzie Banner Thursday, April 10, 1924. Benzie Shores District Library, (http://www.archive.com/benzie/search) accessed on-line 23 March 2015.
Benzie Banner January 22, 1931 page 3. Benzie Shores District Library, (http://www.archive.com/benzie/search) accessed on-line 23 March 2015.
Benzie Banner March 03, 1932 page 2 and The Benzie County Patriot Thursday, March 3, 1962.
Benzie Shores District
Library, (http://www.archive.com/benzie/search) accessed on-line 23 March 2015.
Chauncey Crosby, Albert Franisco and son, Delon, and Lewis Wold spent Wednesday evening at the Roland Long home.The Benzie County Patriot April 5, 1934 page 6. Benzie Shores District Library, (http://www.archive.com/benzie/search) accessed on-line 23 March 2015.
The Benzie County Patriot April 15, 1937 page 5. Benzie Shores District Library, (http://www.archive.com/benzie/search) accessed on-line 23 March 2015.
Benzie Banner Thursday, June 11, 1942 page 1. Benzie Shores District Library, (http://www.archive.com/benzie/search) accessed on-line 23 March 2015.
Three times during the month of June the local draft board is sending out its quota of men from Benzie county. The first group of 23 men left last week Thursday. On the 18th thirty-one men are scheduled to leave and on the 25th a company of of twenty five are called to report. This makes a total of 79 men from Benzie County called for service during the present month.
To date, since the beginning of the draft, Benzie county has furnished 138 men either by draft or enlistment who are now in the active millitary forces of the country. Of these one hundred have left throught the draft board and thirty-eight have enlisted.
Of the 23 men who left Beulah last Thursday 11 men have been returned. These men are Robert Dzeubanek, Melvern Mick, Chauncey Crosby. .
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Benzie Banner April 22, 1943 page 3 and The Benzie County Patriot April 22, 1943 page 4. Benzie Shores District Library, (http://www.archive.com/benzie/search) accessed on-line 23 March 2015.
Chauncey Crosby has been doing the chores at the Roland Long farm while he has been ill.
The Benzie County Patriot Thursday, April 29, 1943. Benzie Shores District Library, (http://www.archive.com/benzie/search) accessed on-line 23 March 2015.
Benzie Banner Thursday, January 15, 1953 page 6. Benzie Shores District Library, (http://www.archive.com/benzie/search) accessed on-line 23 March 2015.
Benzie Record Thursday, October 13, 1955 page 7, Benzie Shores District Library, (http://www.archive.com/benzie/search) accessed on-line 23 March 2015.
Benzie Record Thursday, December 29, 1955 page 9 and The Benzie County Patriot December 29, 1955 page 4. Benzie Shores District Library, (http://www.archive.com/benzie/search) accessed on-line 23 March 2015.
Benzie Record Thursday, March 21, 1957 page 4 and The Benzie County Patriot Marcy 21, 1957 page 2. Benzie Shores District Library, (http://www.archive.com/benzie/search) accessed on-line 23 March 2015.
Benzie Record Thursday, March 28, 1957. Benzie Shores District Library, (http://www.archive.com/benzie/search) accessed on-line 23 March 2015.
Benzie Record August 29, 1957 page 4. Benzie Shores District Library, (http://www.archive.com/benzie/search) accessed on-line 23 March 2015.
Benzie Banner September 26, 1957 page 8. Benzie Shores District Library, (http://www.archive.com/benzie/search) accessed on-line 23 March 2015.
Benzie Banner May 01, 1958 page 4. Benzie Shores District Library, (http://www.archive.com/benzie/search) accessed on-line 23 March 2015.
Benzie Banner January 14, 1960 page 6. Benzie Shores District Library, (http://www.archive.com/benzie/search) accessed on-line 23 March 2015.
Benzie Banner April 21, 1960 page 6. Benzie Shores District Library, (http://www.archive.com/benzie/search) accessed on-line 23 March 2015.
Chauncey Crosby, Ralph Crosby and family, Ferner Crosby, Louis Crosby and family.
Benzie Record Thursday, September 29, 1960 and The Benzie County Patriot September 29, 1960 page 5. Benzie Shores District Library, (http://www.archive.com/benzie/search) accessed on-line 23 March 2015.
Benzie Record Thursday, April 13, 1961 page 2 and The Benzie County Patriot April 13, 1961 page 2
Chauncey Crosby left for Toledo, Ohio, Sunday to resume his job on a lower lake iron ore and grain boat.
Benzie Record, Thursday, April 12, 1962 The Benzie County Patriot April 12, 1962 page 2. Benzie Shores District Library, (http://www.archive.com/benzie/search) accessed on-line 23 March 2015.
Benzie Record Thursday, September 27, 1962 page 5. Benzie Shores District Library, (http://www.archive.com/benzie/search) accessed on-line 23 March 2015.
Traverse City Record-Eagle October 26, 1962. Benzie Shores District Library, (http://www.archive.com/benzie/search) accessed on-line 23 March 2015.
Thompsonville-Funeral services for Chauncey C. Crosby, 64, of Thompsonville will be held at 2:00 P.M. Saturday at Bennett funeral home in Benzonia, Rev A. H. Hazzard officiating with burial in Thompsonville cemetery.
Mr. Crosby died Tuesday at the U.S. Public Health Service hospital in Detroit after and extended illness.
He was born in Saginaw on September 11, 1898, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Crosby, and had been a Great Lakes seaman.
Surviving are three brothers, Ralph of Battle Creek and Ferner and Lewis of Thompsonville.
Benzie Record Thursday, November 1, 1962
Chauncey Crosby passed away in a Detroit hospital last week. Services were held at the Bennett funeral home with interment in the Thompsonville cemetery.
Benzie Record Thursday, November 8, 1962. Benzie Shores District Library, (http://www.archive.com/benzie/search) accessed on-line 23 March 2015.
Benzie Banner November 08, 1962 page 8 AND Benzie Record Thursday, November 15, 1962 AND
Benzie Record, Thursday, November 22, 1962. Benzie Shores District Library, (http://www.archive.com/benzie/search) accessed on-line 23 March 2015.
The Probate Court for the County of Benzie In the matter of the estate of CHAUNCEY C CROSBY, deceased.
At a session of said Court, held on November 5, 1962 Present, Honorable David R. Nugent, Judge of Probate.
Notice is hereby given, that the petition of Louis Crosby praying that the instrument filed in said Court be admitted to probate as the Last Will and Testament of said deceased, that administration of said estate be granted to Louis Crosby or to some other suitable person, and that the heirs of said deceased be determined, will be heard at the Probatge Court on December 4, 1962, at 10 a.m.
It is ordered, that notice thereof be given by publication of a copy hereof for three weeks consecutively previous to said day of hearing in the Benzie Record, and that the petitioner cause a copy of this notice to be served upon each known party in interest at his last known address by registered, certified or ordinary mail (with proof of mailing), or by personal service at least fourteen (14) days prior to such hearing. DAVID R. NUGENT Judge of Probate. A true copy Martha Paul Register of Probate.
Benzie Record Thursday, December 6, 1962 AND Benzie Banner December, 13, 1962 AND
Benzie Record December 20, 1962 page 5. Benzie Shores District Library, (http://www.archive.com/benzie/search) accessed on-line 23 March 2015.
The Probate Court for the County of Benzie In the matter of the estate of CHAUNCEY C CROSBY, deceased.
At a session of said Court, held on December 4, 1962
Present, Honorable David R Nugent, Judge of Probate.
Notice is hereby given, that all creditors of said deceased are required to present their claims in writing and under oath, to said Court, and to serve a copy there of upon Louis Crosby of Thompsonville, Michigan, fiduciary of said estate, and that such claims will be heard by said Court at the Probate Office on February 5th, 1963, at 10 a.m.
It is ordered, that notice thereof be given by publication of a copy hereof for three weeks consecutively previous to said day of hearing, in the Benzie Record, a newspaper printed and circulated in said County.
DAVID R. NUGENT Judge of Probate A true copy: Martha Paul Register of Probate.
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