Robert Plumbley Fea and Susan Sanders
Robert Plumbley Fea married Susan Sanders (b. 17th February 1847) and
had six children:
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Felix Sanders Fea (b. 6th December 1869, d. 23rd November 1947)
who married May Blystone. They had an adopted son:
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Orlando Fea (b. 23rd May 1898, d. May 1975)
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Fred Everett Fea (b. 10th July 1871, d. 8th September 1950).
Fred married twice.
1. Sarah 'Sadie' M Blystone (b. 31st May 1867, d. 29th
August 1915) and they lived on a farm near Elm Hall in Gratiot County,
Michigan. Sadie was the daughter of Calvin N. Blystone and Melvina
Tuttle of Venango Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania. Fred and
Sadie had one son:
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Kenneth Robert Fea (b. 15th November 1905, d. 26th May 1985 ) who
married who married three times (1) Majorie Luellas Sturdevant (b. 11th October 1909 in Montcalm
County, Michigan, d. 16th October 1989) on 23rd June 1927 and had four
children. He only was seven years old at the time of his mother’s death
and grew up on the farm and lived there until 1924 when he moved to Detroit
and trained to be a sheet metal worker. They lived several years in Detroit
until the Depression. Their first child was born there. They moved
to Montcalm County where their second child was born and subsequently to
Lansing, Michigan. They divorced in 1945 and Kenneth remarried a
widow, (2) Virginia Belle Leonard, on 26th September of that year. She
was the daughter of Homer Leonard and Maude Sullivan and had four children
by her previous marriage to Freeman Nelson. Kenneth and Virginia lived
in Ohio. (3) Enna Lee Sizemore
2. Zaida Frances Strouts (b. 6th April 1883, d. 11th March
1964). Fred and Zaida were second cousins. Zaida was a daughter of
Robert Plumbley Strouts and Jessie Paul. Fred’s paternal grandmother
was Mary Ann Strouts, a brother of Plumbley Strouts who had also emigrated
at the same time as his sister and brother in law. Fred Everett Fea and
Zaida Frances Strouts had two daughters.
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Forrest Ralph Fea (b. 27th May 1876, d. May 1952) who married Mable
____. They had two children.
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Fannie Rowena Fea (b. 3rd July 1879) who married Walter Barr.
They had four children.
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Frank Charles Fea (b. 21st August 1883) who married Augusta ____.
They had three children and lived in Detroit.
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Florence M Fea (b. 1885, d. 20th March 1893)
Susan Sanders died on 30th June 1929 and Fred Everett Fea
on 10th August 1930.