Edward Nelson Welsh

  General Notes:

Ed became a U.S. citizen in 1940.

Ed and his brother Fred both loved music, and would see the big musicals that came to Detroit. Ed and Fred would take the interurban from Flint to Detroit, see the great old musicals like "Desert Song" and then back to Flint, singing songs all the way.

Ed and Fred both finished an apprentice program at Ford in Dearborn. Ed Welsh was a tool and die maker, and a surface grinder who could "work the bench". This term meant that he was certified to work on all phases of tool and die work. While working at McDonald Tool Co., Ed took a sliver of metal in the eye. Someone from the shop took him to the hospital where the eye was removed. He went back to the shop until the end of the work day. One of his co-workers took him home and dropped him off at the corner near where they lived. He had a very difficult time walking down the sidewalk without going off of it. He said he felt like a drunk as he staggered home.

After marrying Ethel, WWII came along. Ed worked long hours in a tool and die shop that was providing material to the big factories that were producing war goods. This provided the money needed to purchase the Armada farm.

Obituary - newspaper unknown.

ARMADA - Edward N. Welsh, 76, died Friday, Feb. 10, 1984, in West Hickory Haven Nursing Home, Milford. He was born Sept. 8, 1907, in England. His wife, Ethel, died in 1973. He was owner and operator of Welsh Orchards. He was a member of the Michigan Horticultural Society, the Michigan Fruit Growers Association and the Farm Bureau. He was a former member of the Armada Fair Board and of the Armada Public Library Board.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Picture: 484 Brainard St., Detroit, Michigan. The Welsh family lived at this location in 1934. They next moved to a four room cottage in St. Clair Shores on Raymond Street.

2. Residence: 21631 Raymond Street, St. Clair Shores, Michigan, 1936-1939.

3. Residence: 19340 Williams Street, Roseville, Macomb County, Michigan, 1939-1943.

Edward married Ethel May Miller, daughter of John Harvey Miller and Alice Paulina Leary, on 23 Sep 1930 in Toledo, Ohio. (Ethel May Miller was born on 20 Nov 1899 in Liberty Township, Putnam County, Ohio, died on 31 Jul 1973 in Armada, Michigan ² and was buried in Bruce-Armada Cemetery, Romeo, Michigan.)

  Marriage Notes:

Ethel May Miller and Edward Nelson Welsh were married in Toledo, Ohio by a Justice of the Peace on September 23, 1930.