Person:Joseph Hostler (1)

1900 he was a day laborer, widowed and he and son Leonard are living with his in-laws. 1910 he was a general farmer.

His sister, Mary, was married in his home 1889. When he died, he wasn't as old as tradition said, per Dewey.

Carol Hopkins, his granddaughter wrote: 'I remember just a little of him. He was tall, thin, had snow white hair. Always smoked a corn cob pipe he made himself with string wrapped around the end. If I remember right he didn't have any teeth. He had a stiff knee but could sure run. He always told us a lot of the wild country of Michigan. Don't remember just when he came to our house but I think it was after my sister Wanda was born. He lived with us for 4 to 6 years. Helped with a lot of the farming. Always going to the county farm with older people. His favorite saying or swear word was Yeas Cripes, and every time he said it 'not often' I still say his hair stood up on end.'

Gloria Allen, his neice wrote: "..He lived with Aunt Sadie (Sadie Lanore) when I was a teenager. Probably 1943...he sat on the wood box and with his stiff leg & smoking his pipe! I asked him if he could move to the living room which upset him (I had to keep walking around his leg when I was doing dishes, ha, ha).

Carol Hosler Hopkins also said that Leonard broke is knee when he was 12 years old. She said once he got lost in the woods and spent the night up in a tree.

Obituary

JOSEPH HOSLER, 98, IS CLAIMED BY DEATH AT CENTRAL LAKE

  Joseph Hosler passed away May 23, 1945, at 6:00 a.m., at Mrs. McPhee's Nursing Home in Central Lake at the age of 98 years, 8 months and 8 days.  It was while staying with a niece, Mrs. Kenneth Skinner of Bellaire, that he was taken ill with pneumonia and was removed to the McPhee Nursing Home for care.
  Joseph Hosler was born in New York state September 15, 1846, and moved to Norwood, Mich., when he was about 18 years old.  There he married Jessie Wardrop.  To this union was born one son, Lee.  Later he married Miss May Hardy and to this union was born one son, Leonard, who is now with the Coast Guards on the Great Lakes.  After the death of his second wife he married Cordelia A. Kent, who passed away about 30 years ago.  Since then he has lived with relatives.
   Surviving are his son Leonard and his grandchildren, two sons of Leonard, in the Navy, and two daughters, Wanda and Carol.
   Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at Matthew's Funeral Home, with Rev. G.V. Skinner officiating, and interment was in the cemetery near Pleasant Valley.
 Source: The Bellaire Record  Thursday, May 31 1945 Pg 1.

1. ↑ Compiler: Antrim Co. MI. County Clerk. Antrim County Michigan Deaths.
2. ↑ Compiler: Antrim Co. MI. County Clerk. Antrim County Michigan Deaths.

   Book 4 Pg 46.
   Calculated month and day from age 98y 8m, 9d. Believe year and place are in error.

3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Obituary, in The Bellaire Record.

   Thursday, May 31 1945 Pg 1

4. ↑ Tombstone, Record Type: Tombstone.
5.   Carol Hosler Hopkins. Carol Hosler Hopkins, Record Type: Family Group Sheet, letter abd interview, Prep's Addr: 321 Walter St. Se, G. (1992).
6.   Gloria Allen. Gloria Allen, Record Type: Family Group Sheet.
7. ↑ In 1860 he was 4 yrs old (1855-56); 1885 marriage, 27 years (1858); 1897 marriage, 39 yrs (1858); 1900 census gives birth as May 1852; marriage in May 1901,35 years (1866); and at death, 88 (1846). 1856 is used here because it seems his parents would know how old he was in 1860.