Susannah Burr Lightfoot ^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8}

  Noted events in her life were:

• She appeared on the 1920 US Census in Stanwood, MI on 10 January 1920. ⁵

1920 US Census
Sheet 2B, District 245, Family 36, Roll 784
Stanwood, Mecosta County, Michigan
Farm owned, with mortgage
Susanna B. Lightfoot..Daughter..4..MI
(Living with parents.)
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• She appeared on the 1930 US Census in Mecosta Township, Mecosta County, MI on April 1930. ⁶

1930 US Census
Sheet 3B, District 21, Family 68, Roll 1011
Mecosta Township, Mecosta, Michigan, United States
Home owned
Suseanna Lightfoot..Daughter..15..Michigan

(Living with parents.)

NOTE - If her birth date was 4 Jul 1915, then her age should have been 14 instead of 15.
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• She appeared on the 1940 US Census in Mecosta Township, Mecosta County, MI on 6 April 1940. ⁴

1940 US Census
Sheet 1B, District 54-20, Family 27, Roll 1788
Mecosta Township, Mecosta County, Michigan
Last Place of Residence: Same House
Home owned, $200
Susanna Schort..Daughter..24..MI..7th grade
(Living with husband and 3 children at the home of her widowed father.)
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• She was buried after 20 March 1996 in the Ladner Cemetery in Stanwood, MI.

Find A Grave Memorial #13430067
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Susannah married William Fordyce Schort, son of Fordyce Sumner Schort and Bertha A. Armstrong, on 27 November 1930 in Stanwood, MI.^{1 2 3 4} (William Fordyce Schort was born on 18 July 1902 in Michigan,^{1 4 10} died on 23 January 1953 in Hastings, MI ^{1 2 10 11} and was buried after 23 January 1953 in Stanwood, MI ¹¹.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Marriage Image: 27 November 1930, in Stanwood, MI. ³

• They appeared on the 1940 US Census in Mecosta Township, Mecosta County, MI on 6 April 1940. ⁴

1940 US Census
Sheet 1B, District 54-20, Family 27, Roll 1788
Mecosta Township, Mecosta County, Michigan
Last Place of Residence: Same House
Home owned, $200
Florus Lightfoot..Head..65..MI..2 yrs college..Farm Hand..earned $112 in 1939
William Schort..Son-in-law..37..MI..7th grade..Laborer, W.P.A..earned $427 in 1939
Susanna Schort..Daughter..24..MI..7th grade
Charles Schort..Grandson..7..MI..1st grade
Grace Schort..Granddaughter..6..MI
Bernice Schort..Granddaughter..2..MI

(Florus was widowed and living with him was his married daughter, Susanna, and her family.)
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  Marriage Notes:

Name: William Schort
Event Type: Marriage
Event Date: 27 Nov 1930
Event Place: , Montcalm, Michigan, United States
Gender: Male
Age: 22
Birth Year (Estimated): 1908
Father's Name: Fordyse Schort
Mother's Name: Bertha A Armstrong
Spouse's Name: Susanna Lightfoot
Spouse's Gender: Female
Spouse's Age: 16
Spouse's Birth Year (Estimated): 1914
Spouse's Father's Name: Florus Lightfoot
Spouse's Mother's Name: Bertha L Miller
Page: 159
Record Number: 5590

Citing this Record
"Michigan, County Marriages, 1820-1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VNLS-TNC : 4 November 2017), Bertha L Miller in entry for William Schort and Susanna Lightfoot, 27 Nov 1930; citing reference ID , various county clerks and libraries, Michigan; FHL microfilm 1,295,522.

NOTE - The marriage was actually performed in Stanwood, Mecosta County, Michigan but for some reason recorded in Montcalm County, Michigan.
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