He first married Catherine B Hudson. Cassie died when her youngest child was 3 years of age. Osborne & Cassie had 3 children - William Perle, Earle Villard and Clarence Percy.
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courtesy of Jody Marie MacKeil |
I wrote about Clarence in a previous post but their oldest son William Perle died at 16 years of age in 1913 when he was scalded to death at the local canning factory
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courtesy of Jody Marie MacKeil |
Their son Willis Earle married Alta Coulter - she died in Massachusetts in 1988 and he died in Florida in 2001.
Osborne's tombstone picture was an important find - Jody Marie MacKeil recently added it to the Find A Grave memorial and it answered the question as to when Mercy passed away - death dates varied but the stone is clear she died in 1967.
As mentioned, Osborne and Mercy had 14 children - Gladys, Herrick, Logan, Norman, Laura, Lucille, Myrtle, Vera, Leaman, Lena, Violet, Ella, and the twins Aubrey and Audrey. Wow!