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Source 198 – Receipts of Mrs. Charles R. Thomas

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Date: 4 April 1940
Amount: $5.00
Signed: M.R. Murphy, M.D.

Date: 1 June 1940
Amount: $5.00 (balance $10.50)
Signed: M.R. Murphy, M.D.

Date: 3 July 1940
Amount: $5.00 (balance $10.50)
Signed: M.R. Murphy, M.D.

Date: April [section missing]
Amount: One Thousand to apply on land contract… county land.
Signed: Geo

Source 020 – Postcard by Helen J. Thomas

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Author: Helen J. Thomas
Title: Letter to Mrs. CR Thomas [Iva M. (Cooper) Thomas] of Jennings, MI [near Cadillac]
Date: 13 August 1938
Curator: Christine Fisher
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13 August 1938
Jennings, MI

Mrs. CR Thomas:
Hello Everyone. We arrived about 5:00. Only had two rides. Bob is fine.
Love, Helen [Thomas]

Source 181 – Personal Letter by Charles H. Craine

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Author: Charles H. Craine
Note: Speculating who the recipient of this letter may have been. Helen J. Thomas’ birthday was 9 April 1915, so she would have been about to turn 18. She also would have been Charles and Junia’s niece. Side Note: Junia died 23 July 1933!

April 7, 1933
Holo stick in the mud. Well I haven’t forgot the 9 yet and the yardstick will you will hafta get your own present for we don’t know what you want. Wost say my birth day is the 3 March you can’t change it don’t try. Uncle CHC and Junia

Source 187 – Letters of Guardianship for Helen Thomas

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15 July 1932

Recorded in Liber: 466, Page 38
Fred Roth, Register of Probate
Address – 119 Brown Street SW

State of Michigan. The Probate Court for the County of Kent.

In the matter of the estate of Helen Thomas, minor, to Nellie M. Taylor of the city of Grand Rapids, Greeting.

You having been appointed guardian of said ward, and having given a bond in the premises which has been duly approved and filed as required by law, I do by these presents commit unto you full power and authority to ask, sue for, recover, receive and take into your custody, all and singular, the real estate, goods and chattels, rights and credits which accrue to said ward; and you are to make a true and perfect inventory thereof, and return the same unto said court on or before the 15th day of August next ensuing; hereby requiring you to dispose of, manage, employ and improve the same according to law, and for the best interest of said ward; and within one year from the date hereof, and at least once in each year thereafter during the continuance of your guardianship, and at such other time as the judge of probate shall direct, to render on oath to said court a true account of the property of said ward in your hands, including the proceeds of all the real estate that may be sold by you, and of the management and disposition of such property; and at the expiration of your trust to settle your accounts with said judge of probate, or with said ward or her legal representatives; and to pay over and deliver all the estate and effects remaining in your hands, and due from you on such settlement, to the person or persons who shall be lawfully entitled thereto, and to perform all orders and decrees of said court by you to be performed in the premises.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at the city of Grand Rapids, in said county, this 15th day of July, A.D. 1932. [Signed] John Dalion, Judge of Probate