VIII. WILLIAM CLARK CAVERLY 1863 - 1925
(Charles H., Philip Jr., Philip Sr., John Sr., Peter I, Peter Gerardus, Jean)

Sometime between 1913 and 1917, William and his sons Edward, Manson, and Wm. Hector moved to Minnesota hoping to find work in the lumbering camps. Michigan’s logging days had come to an end. Per an internet site on Michigan’s Lumber Industry, Michigan lumber outvalued all the gold extracted from California by a billion dollars.

William’s son Alton and wife Blanche followed them to Minnesota in 1918. Unfortunately lumbering was on the decline there too. By the mid 1920s most of them had returned to Michigan. Their father William Clark died Mar. 15, 1925 in Grand Rapids, MN and is buried at Shovel Lake, Aitkin Co., MN.

While in Minnesota, Edward (1885-1958) married Florence Pearl Taylor(1899-1991). Their first child Mary Rose was born June 3, 1918 at Shovel Lake, MN. The 1926 Flint, MI city directory shows Edward and his family had moved there where things were booming. He was working as a machinist. The 1930 and 1932 Flint directories show him as an employee of the E.I. du Pont Company.

Around 1933 the family moved to Ogemaw Co., MI. Edward had done some work for his Uncle Allen. In exchange, Allen provided Edward and his family with a place to live. Emil Caverly would hunt and trap muskrat and give some to his cousin Edward’s family. Florence would cook the meat up for the family but she couldn’t bear to eat it herself even though it was the only meat they had due to the lingering difficulties of the depression. Edward and Florence had 10 children: Mary Rose 1918-1999, Dorothy1920-2003, Robert 1922-1964, Bessie 1924-1993, Ina 1926-1993, Marshall Clark 1928-1988, Lawrence Wesley 1930-1993, John Edward,Bruce Deane 1933-2001, and William James 1936-2000.

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