Paula Hoar

Other Events:

• Census: 1930

Notes:

[[
https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE60230
"Peggy"
Paula/Margaret Hoar, daughter of Kenneth S. Hoar and Valetta Ruth Appleby, was born at
Shell Lake, Wisconsin 9 April 1925, She married at Pine City, Minnesota 4 January 1944,
Morris "Bud" Charles Mercier, son of Charles Mercier and Delphine Chartier. He was bom
a t Rice Lake, Wisconsin 8 August 1924, They were divorced at Eau Clair , Wisconsin 23
December 1951 and she removed t o Los Angeles, California with her daughter; living at 5312
Certeen Place, Apt, 21, North HoHywoed, C a l i f o m i a . Their daughter wasi-
809o 1. Paula Diane Mercier narried Vaughn Wamon Birdwell,


Obituary: Published in the Spooner Advocate 14 Jan 2006
Page: " Paula "Peggy" Mercier, 80, of Shell Lake, died on Thursday, Jan. 5, 2006, at Spooner Health System Residential Care.
She was born on April 9, 1925, in Shell Lake to Kenneth and Valetta (Applebee) Hoar. She graduated, with honors, from Shell Lake High School and was prom queen. Paula attended Superior Business College, graduating sixth in her class of 84.
She had many friends and loved to dance. This is how she met her husband, Bud Mercier, from Rice Lake. During World War II while her husband was at war, she began to pursue her career.
Moving between Wisconsin, Chicago, and California, she became a very independent career woman, working in executive positions during the 1950s and 60s -? a feat rarely achieved by women during this era. Paula was very successful in her career, establishing new sales offices throughout America for various corporations.
When she moved to Los Angeles in 1962, she went to work for Budget Rent-a-Car. She was a key person involved in establishing this fledging company and instrumental in its success of becoming an international company. During her career, Paula was a single mom who also helped raise her granddaughter.
She returned to Shell Lake in 1980 to take care of her father after her mother died. Paula worked at Spooner Bank and then as a caregiver, before heart problems and Alzheimer?s disease forced her to retire.
She is survived by one daughter, Paula (Kevin) Kessler-Christensen, of Shell Lake, and one granddaughter, Kimberly Kessler, of Honolulu, Hawaii.
She was preceded in death by her sister, Jean Schullo.
The funeral was held at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 10, at St. Alban Episcopal Church, Spooner. Rev. Robert Rodgers officiated.
Burial of cremains was in Shell Lake Cemetery.
Funeral arrangements were handled by Pockat Funeral Home of Shell Lake."

Paula married Morris Charles Mercier on 4 Jan 1944 in Pine City, Pine Co, Minnesota, USA. Morris (son of Charles Mercier and Delphine Chartier) was born on 8 Aug 1924 in Rice Lake, Barron Co, Wisconsin, USA; died on 25 Dec 1995 in , Barron Co, Wisconsin, USA. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Census: 1910 1930

Kenneth married Valetta Appleby on 24 Jan 1922 in Minneapolis, Hennepin Co, Minnesota, USA. Valetta (daughter of Adelbert Marion Appleby and Virginia Johnston) was born on 8 Nov 1900 in , Grant Co, Wisconsin, USA; died on 8 Jan 1980 in Shell Lake, Washburn Co, Wisconsin, USA. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Census: 1930

Notes:

http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/washburn/obituaries/hoar.txt
Valetta Hoar, 79, Shell Lake, Dies The funeral for Valetta Hoar, 79, Shell Lake, who died Tuesday, January 8, 1980, at the Shell Lake Hospital was Friday at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church with the Rev. Fr. Paul Sanford officiating. Burial will be in the Shell Lake Cemetery. The former Valetta Appleby was born November 8, 1900 in Grant County, Wisconsin. She married Kenneth Hoar in Minneapolis and the couple had resided in Shell Lake following their marriage. She had been a social welfare worker for the county and state, a member of St. Agnes Guild and the Shell Lake Tuesday Club. She is survived by her husband, Kenneth; two daughters, Virginia Schullo and Paula Mercier, both of Garden Grove, Calif.; three grandchildren; six great- grandchildren; and a sister, Hazel Schneider, Yucca Valley, Calif.

Other Events:

• Census: 1900 1910 1930

Albert married Marion Shaver on 14 Jun 1900 in , Washburn Co, Wisconsin, USA. Marion (daughter of William Allen Shaver and Minnie Lydia Asplin) was born on 22 Sep 1882 in Augusta, Eau Claire Co, Wisconsin, USA; died on 2 Oct 1942 in ; was buried in Shell Lake, Washburn Co, Wisconsin, USA (Shell Lake Memorial Cemetery). [Group Sheet]

Adelbert married Virginia Johnston. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Census: 1900 1910

Notes:

Newspaper - Marriage
Daniel F. Johnson : Volume 86 Number 3184
Rank 88
Date February 11, 1893
County Westmorland
Place Moncton
Newspaper The Times
The language of the text is the original used in the newspaper entry and as transcribed by Daniel F. Johnson. Records acquired by the Provincial Archives are not translated from the language in which they originate.
Shell Lake, Wisconsin 'Watchman' - Mr. S.S. HOAR and Miss Martha DEVEREAU were united in the holy bonds od wedlock Tuesday night. The ceremony took place at the residence of the bride's brother, James DEVEREAU at 9 o'clock and was performed by Rev. E.F. G_ Rector of the Episcopal Church of this city. Mr. Hoar is one of our leading business men. He has been a resident of the city for a number of years - The bride is a cousin of R. McLEAN of the firm McLean & Forbes of Moncton.
and...
Marriage to Martha:
https://www.familysearch.org/search/recordDetails/show?uri=https://api.familysearch.org/records/pal:/MM9.1.r/MX1K-CN7/p4

http://books.google.com/books?id=kysEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA262&dq=Hoar+died&lr=&ei=IwSmR8DIF4mWzATm5Pz0CA#PPA262,M1
Book: Commemorative Biographical Record of the Upper Lake Region (Wisconsin)
By J.H. Beers & Co -Page 262
and (same)...
http://washburn.wigenweb.org/histories/people/hoarstephens.htm
Stephen S. Hoar, a well known citizen of Shell Lake, was born in Albert County, New Brunswick, Oct. 27, 1848. His parents were George and Isabella (Stiles) Hoar, both natives of Albert County.
In 1763 there came from Devonshire, England, three brothers, James, John and Ebenezer Hoar, who settled in Massachusetts. They traced their lineage back to Herman Hoar, an officer of Richard Coeur de Lion, who was knighted for gallant service at the battle of Essex. A hotel in London has been kept by successive generations of the Hoar family for five hundred years, each proprietor bearing the name of John Hoar.
Stephen S. Hoar is descended from Eben Hoar, who was a Loyalist and went to Nova Scotia from new England about the beginning of the Revolution. His grandson, James L. Hoar, was the father of George Hoar, both of whom were lumbermen. George Hoar came to Shell Lake about 1892, and died there July 4, 1894, in his seventy-fifth year. He had been an earnest and active member of the M. E. Church. His wife, Isabella (Stiles) Hoar, died in 1867, when forty-eight years of age. Her father, Stephen Stiles, was born in Canada, whither his parents had come from the North of Ireland; he was a sea captain, and lived to be sixty-seven years old, dying in Albert County, New Brunswick. Our subject's brother Frank commanded the "Lizzie R," which went down during the great gale of August, 1873, on Georgia Shoals, near New York, none of the crew ever being heard from.
On reaching his majority Stephen S. Hoar engaged in lumbering and shipbuilding at alma, New Brunswick, where he also carried on a general store. For a number of years he was successful, but owing to the loss, in the Bay of Fundy, of a vessel and cargo which he owned, and to other disasters, he lost his property. In July, 1886, he came to Shell Lake and entered the employ of the Shell Lake Lumber Co., spending five years in the store of that firm, meantime opening a livery stable, which he still carries on. He has built two stables in the village, and his present barn, built in 1892, is a commodious building with a stone basement. He keeps from twenty to twenty-five horses, and has an excellent custom. For a number of years he has also dealt in ice, and now supplies the whole village. All of his business is conducted honorably and with judgment, and he is highly respected by his friends and associates.
Mr. Hoar married (first) June 4, 1873, Susan Wright, daughter of Robert and Susan Wright, of Albert County, New Brunswick. She was a member of the Methodist Church, and died in 1884, at the age of thirty-one, leaving four children, viz.: Frank, now an attorney at Shell Lake, a graduate of Wisconsin University; Albert, in business with his father; Belle, Mrs. W. B. Kinzie, of Shell Lake; and Blair, editor and proprietor of the Shell Lake Watchman. In February, 1885, Mr. Hoar married (second) Marilla Strong, who was born in Albert County, daughter of David Strong. She died at Shell Lake in 1889, leaving two sons, Harry and David, both at school. Mr. Hoar married (third) in January, 1893, Martha Devereaux, daughter of Walter Devereaux, of St. John, New Brunswick, and to this marriage were born five children: Milton, Stephen, Walter, John and Robert, the last named dying when two and a half years old. Mrs. Martha (Devereaux) Hoar is a communicant of the Episcopal Church. Mr. Hoar is a member of the I. O. F. [sic]. In politics a Republican, he has been for two years a member of the town board, and since 1899 deputy sheriff of Washburn county.

1 - Editorial Note - Stephen S. Hoar's death date was derived from the Washburn Co. Register of Deeds Death Index. The death record is on file at the Register of Deeds Office in Shell Lake, in Volume 8, page 309. His burial location is in the Shell Lake Memorial Cemetery (1847 - 1927). His second wife, Marilla, is also buried in this cemetery (death date of 08 Mar 1890 on stone, aged 41y). His third wife, Martha H., is buried in this cemetery as well (1858 - 1945) along with his children, Frank E. (06 Apr 1874 - 27 Apr 1905); Albert W. (1875 - 1955); Harry (1885 - 1975); Milton Devereux (28 Nov 1893 - 13 Aug 1953); Stephen S. (1896 - 1945); Walter G. (20 Aug 1898 - 24 Jan 1979); John E. (1901 - 1974); and Robert (no dates).

Stephen married Susan Wright on 4 Jun 1873. Susan (daughter of Robert Wright and Susan (Unknown)) was born on 15 Nov 1858 in St. John, St. John Co, New Brunswick, Canada; died on 25 Feb 1884 in Alma, Albert, New Brunswick, Canada; was buried in Alma, Albert, New Brunswick, Canada (Alma United Cemetery). [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Died in childbirth.

Cemetery:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mhlewis/almaunitedcem/almaunitedcem.htm

William married Minnie Lydia Asplin. [Group Sheet]