Jim Ward's Genealogy Pages
1915 Stanton Baseball Team
Inside a recently rediscovered box of photos saved from my Grandma Ruth's estate was this photo and a portion of the page it was glued to, naming members of the 1915 Stanton (Mi.) Baseball Team. Members are numbered left to right, top row first (notice the numbers written on the photo). My Grandpa Phon, Alphonsus Edward Ward Sr., is in the top row, third from the left. I'm not sure which Bellows number 4 is - maybe Severn Bellows, son of Elliot O. & Mary Alice Peel Bellows. Mary Alice was Phon's half-sister. Grandpa Phon would have been 39 years old then, if the picture was taken before his 40th birthday on August 15 of that year.
There is a street in Stanton named Camburn, so maybe #7 is connected to that somehow?
Identifications:
After posting this page, I decided to query the Montcalm Rootsweb Mailing list to see if the other team members could be identified with a given name and a bit of history on them.
Number two is likely Floyd Wilson, according to a grandchild. He played baseball in the Dakotas in 1910, where he met and married Fern May Witzel. They moved to Sheridan in 1912. Floyd later moved to Greenville after Fern died in 1931.
