Richard J. COMMON [437]

   FamilySearch ID: 96NG-9M8.

  General Notes:

Richard is listed as a witness at the marriage of Edmund J. Martyn and Minnie F. Ruehle. Minnie was Richard's sister-in-law. Richard's widow, Emma (RUEHLE) Common appears in the 1900 US Federal Census in the household of Nicholas Morrish and Emma's sister, Maggie.

Saturday, August 27, 1898, Page 8
Death of Richard Common
He Expired at Harper Hospital, Detroit last Tuesday (August 23, 1898). Soo relatives and friends of Richard Common were greatly shocked upon receiving the news of his death, which occurred Tuesday morning in Harper's Hospital, Detroit. Mr. Common had been a sufferer from a compilation of diseases for several years, but since two years ago, when he submitted to an operation he had enjoyed the best of health. - - - The funeral will occurred this afternoon (August 27, 1898) and will be attended by Mrs. William Ruehle, sr. mother-in-law of the deceased and his brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. N. D. Morrish and Jos. Ripley, of this city.
---Transcribed from The Sault Ste. Marie News (The Democrat) by Ida Reed.

Richard married Emma Jane RUEHLE [305] [MRIN: 158], daughter of Wilhelm RUEHLE [139] and Barbara UNGERER [140], on 14 November 1881 in Sault Ste. Marie, Chippewa, Michigan, United States.⁴⁰² (Emma Jane RUEHLE [305] was born on 11 February 1865 in Sault Ste. Marie, Chippewa, Michigan, United States ^2,393 and died on 10 January 1944 in Sault Ste. Marie, Chippewa, Michigan, United States.)