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- !SOURCE: Email from Joyce Lobert (email hidden) to Weldon Whipple, 31 Oct 2005. Gives first wife's name "May."
!SOURCE: Email from Linda Kay Ward (email hidden) to the Whipple Website, 9 Oct 2008. "Ernest's first wife was Lillie you can find Ernest and Lillie together in the 1900 census (in MI). His second wife was my grandmother Cora Francis McClellan 1886 (MN) to 1977 (MN). ... There is no May among my aunts."
!SOURCE: 1 Jun 1900 Census of District 138, Reynolds, Montcalm, Michigan, p. 1:- Ward, Earnest, head, b. Apr 1880 [sic], age 20, married 0 years, b. MI, father b. MI, mother b. NY, farmer
- Ward, Lillie M., wife, b. Sep 1883, age 17 [18?], married 0 years, b. MI, father b. VT, mother b. PA
!SOURCE: 16 May 1910 Census of District 103, Petoskey Ward 3, Emmet, Michigan, p. 16:- Ward, Earnest, head, 30, married 10 yrs., b. MI, parents b. NY, Teamster, Saw Mill
- Ward, May, wife, 29, married 10 yrs., b. MI, parents b. GER
- Ward, Goldie, dau, 9, b. MI, parents b. MI
- Ward, Lea [Len?], son, 6, b. MI, parents b. MI
!SOURCE: Email from Matt Kingsley (email hidden) to the Whipple Website, 13 Apr 2019. Cites Michigan Births, 1867-1902 - familysearch.org (child Goldie's birth record gives mother's name as Mary Ward).
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