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Hattiebelle McIntyre, the daughter of
John Sherman and Leona May McIntyre, was born in Silver Creek Township,
Cass County, Michigan, on May 5, 1906. Following completion of
the eight grades in the Hinchman Country School in Silver Creek Township,
she then continued her education in the Dowagiac High School.
In 1929 she married Gilbert Meade in
Decatur, Michigan. They had three boys: Gilbert, born in Jan. 1931; Gerald,
born Dec. 13, 1931; and Robert, born on Nov. 11, 1939. Robert lives
near Decatur, in Van Buren Co. Mich. The other two sons are deceased.
Hattiebelle's husband grew several acres
of celery which the two of them would package and deliver to retail stores
in Nile, Michigan, and South Bend and Michigan City, Indiana.
Hattiebelle had a very tragic death on
Jan. 2, 1941 from burns over most of her body as the result of a gasoline
stove explosion.
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