Subject | • | Business enterprises -- Ohio -- Westlake. | [X] | | • | Dover (Cuyahoga County, Ohio : Township) -- Genealogy. |
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| | • | Funeral homes -- Ohio -- Westlake. |
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| | • | Pease Funeral Home (Westlake, Ohio). | [X] | | • | Pease family. | [X] | | • | Undertakers and undertaking -- Ohio -- Westlake. |
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| | • | Westlake (Ohio) -- Genealogy. |
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| | • | Abell family. |
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| | • | Carter family. |
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| | • | Jenkins Funeral Home (Westlake, Ohio). |
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| | • | Osborn family. |
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| | • | Pease, Alice Osborn, 1888-1959. |
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| | • | Pease, Clifford B., 1879-1944. |
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| | • | Pease, Marion Elizabeth, 1910-1991. |
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| | • | Registers of births, etc. -- Ohio -- Westlake. |
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| | • | Rockport (Ohio : Township) -- Genealogy. |
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| | Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1 | Title: | Pease Funeral Home Records
| | | | Creator: | Pease Funeral Home | | | | Dates: | 1883-1975 | | | | Abstract: | The Pease Funeral Home was founded in the early 1870s by James A. Pease and his brother, Calvin Pease, in Dover (now Westlake), Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Following the death of James Pease, his son Clifford Pease took over the operation of the funeral home. A civic and business leader in Dover, he remained head of the business until his death in 1944. His wife, Alice Minerva Osborn Pease, and daughter, Marion E. Pease took over the firm upon his death. In 1955, the business was sold to Glen A. and Melvin Jenkins, father and son, and renamed the Jenkins Funeral Home. The collection consists of calendars and journals; daybooks; business account ledgers and inventories; funeral account ledgers, register and record books; financial records, including tax returns, receipts, and bank statements; real estate records, including census of business, acquisition and sale of property; and death records, including burial permits, correspondence, state death certificates, provisional death certificates, funeral notes of records, Ohio obituaries, and military death records. The funeral account and records books contain much information useful to genealogists, including birthplace, state of residence, location and cause of death, and names and birthplaces of parents of the deceased. The records also include a significant number of individuals of Scandinavian, Italian, and German heritage; many of them contain personal notes handwritten by the Pease family pertaining to the deceased and obituaries listing maiden names and next of kin. click here to view the searchable index to the burial records contained in this collection | | | | Call #: | MS 4809 | | | | Extent: | 5.20 linear feet (6 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Pease family. | Pease Funeral Home (Westlake, Ohio). | Funeral homes -- Ohio -- Westlake. | Undertakers and undertaking -- Ohio -- Westlake. | Registers of births, etc. -- Ohio -- Westlake. | Business enterprises -- Ohio -- Westlake. | Dover (Cuyahoga County, Ohio : Township) -- Genealogy. | Dover (Cuyahoga County, Ohio : Township) -- History. | Westlake (Ohio) -- Genealogy. | Westlake (Ohio) -- History.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2 | Title: | Clifford B. Pease Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Pease, Clifford B. Family | | | | Dates: | 1811-1991 | | | | Abstract: | Clifford B. Pease was a funeral home director and civic leader in Dover (later Westlake), Ohio. In 1929 he took over operation of the Pease Funeral Home in Dover founded by his father, James Pease. In addition to operating the funeral home, Pease was active in the business and civic affairs of Dover; serving as town clerk, as a member of various clubs and lodges, and as a leader in numerous state and national funeral industry organizations. He married Alice Minerva Osborn in 1909 and had two children, Marion Elizabeth Pease and Kenneth Osborn Pease. Marion Pease became a licensed funeral director, and along with her mother, continued to operate the funeral home business after the death of Clifford Pease in 1944. When the business was sold to Glen A. Jenkins in 1955, she continued on as a licensed funeral director with the newly-named Jenkins Funeral Home, into the 1980s. The collection consists of address and birthday books; correspondence; daybooks; genealogies and canine pedigrees; financial and tax records; legal records, including deeds, wills, estate inventories, land partitions and purchases, divorce papers, and lawsuits; birth and death certificates; diplomas and certificates; newspaper clippings and notes, including birth, death and wedding announcements; poetry and recipe books; academic catalogs and directories; pamphlets; and bulletins. | | | | Call #: | MS 4810 | | | | Extent: | 1.75 linear feet (4 containers and 5 oversize folders) | | | | Subjects: | Pease, Clifford B., 1879-1944. | Pease, Marion Elizabeth, 1910-1991. | Pease, Alice Osborn, 1888-1959. | Pease family. | Abell family. | Carter family. | Crocker family. | Osborn family. | Pease Funeral Home (Westlake, Ohio). | Jenkins Funeral Home (Westlake, Ohio). | College of Wooster. | Funeral homes -- Ohio -- Westlake. | Undertakers and undertaking -- Ohio -- Westlake. | Business enterprises -- Ohio -- Westlake. | Dover (Cuyahoga County, Ohio : Township) -- Genealogy. | Dover (Cuyahoga County, Ohio : Township) -- History. | Rockport (Ohio : Township) -- History. | Rockport (Ohio : Township) -- Genealogy. | Westlake (Ohio) -- Genealogy. | Westlake (Ohio) -- History.
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