Here are my notes for Lottie, from her entry in my family tree file- Rick Waggener:

Lottie was born to her parents, William Saunders Fuller and Anna Maria Ribble, on May 9, 1868, in Pennfield Township, Calhoun County, Michigan. Her mother died in 1870, and she and her siblings were raised by her mother's parents, Clinton Dewitt Ribble and Jane Burleigh. I believe they were adopted by the Ribbles. Lottie went by the name Ribble, up until her first marriage.- RW

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From Michigan Births 1867- 1902; posted on-line by the LDS:

Name: Charlotte Fuller
Birth date: 09 May 1868
Birthplace: Pennfield, Calhoun, Michigan
Gender: Female
Race or color (on document): white
Father's name: William Fuller
Father's birthplace: Canada
Father's occupation: laborer
Mother's name: Ann Fuller
Mother's birthplace: Canada
Residence of parents: Pennfield
Film number: 2297921
Digital GS number: 4206205
Image number: 179
Reference number: item 1 p 186 rn 1040
Collection: Michigan Births 1867-1902

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From the 1870 Federal Census of the Township of Emmett, Calhoun County, Michigan, page 22, Post Office- Battle Creek, taken July 19, 1870, household 169; from ancestry.com, image 22 of 33. Lottie is listed in the household of her parents:

------ Charlotte; age- 5, female, born- Michigan, parents of foreign birth

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From the 1880 Federal Census of Pennfield, Calhoun County, Michigan, district 61, page 5/ 359A, taken June 2, 1880, household 57; from ancestry.com, image 5 of 22. Charlotte is listed in the household of her grandparents, with their surname of Ribble:

------ Charlott; female, age- 13, granddaughter, at home, born- Michigan, father born- New York, mother born- Canada

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From the 1900 Federal Census of Gratiot County, Michigan, Sumner Township, page 5B, taken June 7, 1900, household #104; genealogy.com. Lottie is listed in the household of her husband and family:

----- Lottie; wife, female, born- May 1868, age- 32, married 15 years, mother of 3 children/ all alive, born- Michigan, parents born- French Canada, r/w's

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From the 1910 Federal Census of Martiny Township, Mecosta County, Michigan, district 128, sheet 6a, taken April 22, 1910, household 22; from Ancestry.com, image 11 of 48. Lottie is listed as living with her husband Ambrose, although for a number of reasons, I don't believe that Ambrose was living here:

------ Lottie; wife, female, age- 44, married (1st) 26 years, mother of 4 children/ 4 children living, born- Michigan, parents born- Michigan, occupation- none, r/w's

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From the 1920 Federal Census of Garfield Township, Clare County, Michigan, district 139, sheet 4a, taken January 15, 1920, household 75; from ancestry.com, image 7 of 9. Lottie is listed in the household of her second husband James Haight:

------ Lottie; wife, female, age- 52, married, r/w's, born- Michigan, parents born- Canada

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I have obtained a copy of the military pension file for Lottie's husband Ambrose. After he died on March 28, 1924, Lottie applied for a widow's pension. Most of the pretty extensive pension file seems to be about Lottie's pension application. There were questions right from the start and the investigating Inspector sought information from all over to try and answer those questions. Ambrose and Lottie had separated sometime around 1906. In some kind of pension paperwork that Ambrose had submitted in 1915, he had stated that he was not married, and on his death certificate it was reported that he was divorced. Although Lottie was able to pretty well show that they had never been divorced, she acknowledged that they never again lived together after they separated.

Then it turned out that Lottie was unable to produce a record of her marriage to Ambrose. She said that her copy of the marriage certificate, had been destroyed in a fire. She was unable to find a record of the marriage in Eaton County, where she said they were married. Although the question of whether they had actually been married was never completely settled, it appeared that there were enough other people who had believed that they were married and claimed to have seen this certificate, to support the fact that it had apparently happened.

Then there were questions about Ambrose's first marriage to Olive Loretta Hancock, which turned out to be a bigger problem. Apparently Ambrose had told Lottie and others that Loretta had died just before he met Lottie. However, there were reports that Loretta had not died and that she and Ambrose had never divorced. It was subsequently learned that indeed, Loretta was not dead at the time of Ambrose's marriage to Lottie in 1884 (although she had died in 1912). It was further learned that Loretta had applied for a divorce from Ambrose, but not until 1888, and the divorce was not completely final until 1889. This was 5 years after Ambrose and Lottie were married.

Then an even bigger problem came to light, and it was clear that Lottie and several others had tried to cover it up. It was learned that Lottie had been living with another man, James Haight, since apparently right after her separation from Ambrose. It was further learned that Lottie had given birth to a Eunice Ann Haight in 1908, fathered by James Haight. In the final rejection of Lottie's pension application on June 11, 1926, this was described as an "open and notorious adulterous cohabitation," and was given as the main reason for rejection.

There are pages and pages of information about Lottie in the pension file, and it is hard to summarize it all. Besides looking for records in Michigan and Pennsylvania (mostly without success), the Inspector took depositions from 10-15 different people in both Michigan and Pennsylvania. These paint a colorful and interesting picture of Lottie and a number of family members. Although I don't know much about what happened to Lottie after these records in 1926, I have since learned that she subsequently died in Ionia, Ionia County, Michigan, on May 22, 1938. I will try to quote or summarize some of the pertinent information in the file.

Rick Waggener

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Lottie actually gave two separate depositions. The first was on January 5, 1926, in Ionia Township, Ionia County, Michigan. She reported:

"I am 57 years old, I was born May 9, 1868, at Pennfield, Calhoun County, Michigan, my occupation general housework, and my residence is just outside of the City of Ionia with my daughter, Lena J. Salter and her husband, William Cleo Salter. I have lived in this house about four or five weeks, it is one Mr. Salter and Lena have recently bought..... I am claiming pension as the widow of Ambrose Wayman, and that was his full name as far as I ever knew... He was always addressed as "Ambers" in everyday speech.... My full and complete name is Charlotte Ann but I have dropped the first name as given and have always been called Lottie instead. I write my name in legal matters as "Lottie A. Wayman."...I had no son in the World War, they would not take either of them....

The name of my father was William Fuller but my mother died when I was three years old and I never knew my father until I was the wife of Ambrose Wayman. The name of my mother was Anna Ribble and I was reared by her parents, Clinton DeWitt Ribble and Jane Ribble. I was brought up in Pennfield Township, Calhoun County, and I always went by the name of Ribble and was married under that name. I had no own brothers and sisters except one brother and he died years ago. I had several half-brothers and sisters who were named by my daughter, Lena J. Salter, in her statement just made in my presence...

I met Ambrose Wayman at the home of the Ribbles in Pennfield, Calhoun County. A sister of mine, Seeneath Davidson, my mother's daughter by her first husband, was married to a Pennsylvania man Edgar Davidson and they lived there at Pennfield. So Mr. Wayman having known that man in Pennsylvania came to our house to see him (Davidson) and that is the way I happened to meet him, Wayman. I had known Wayman not over six months before I married him and during that time he "lived up north somewhere" but I don't know just where."

Lottie was asked about her marriage: "I was married to him at Bellevue, Eaton County, on November 9, 1884. We were married by a Justice of the Peace named C.H. Walker.... I don't know how Wayman did happen to drive over there, he was not acquainted around there and he just happened to go there, no license was required those days. We started from my Grandfather Ribble's and we drove over with a horse and buggy and after we were married drove back again, it was not very far, about nine miles is all... Wayman and I lived "all over", it was just move, move, move, and I could not name all the places we lived. All Wayman wanted in this world was enough to eat and drink and by the last I also include intoxicating liquors. He was a hard drinker and that is the reason his pension would not keep us.... We lived at Ferris in Montcalm county; near Battle Creek; at Elm Hall ...We separated when Lena was about 14 years old and she was born in 1892. That would make it about 1906 and we were both living near Ionia at the time but not right in the city."

About her children: "I gave birth to three children. These were the children by Mr. Wayman, the soldier and their names and addresses are as follows, beginning with the oldest: Richard John Wayman, born July 5, 1886, at Ferris Center, Montcalm County and her resides at 325 Johnson St., Ionia; Clarence Orville Wayman, born March 13, 1888, near Riverdale, in Gratiot County, I believe, ad his whereabouts I don't know. The last we new he was in Detroit working at the carpenter trade; Lena Jane Wayman (now Salter) born August 7, 1892 and is here in the house with me...."

(I believe that Lottie must have been born before 1868. She was listed as 5 years old in the 1870 census, 13 years old in the 1880 census and 44 years old in the 1910 census. I also am pretty certain that her sister Seina was a full sister and not a half sister as Lottie seems to indicate. I can only guess at her reasons for saying this. -RW)

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The second deposition given by Lottie was dated March 5, 1926, and was also in Ionia, Michigan. For the most part the Inspector questioned her about discrepancies between her previous statements and information that he had learned from others. One point that I found curious concerned when Ambrose returned to Pennsylvania for a year or so around 1888, to make his initial pension application. Several people had made statements that Lottie had gone with him, but Lottie seemed to insist that she had not gone back with Ambrose, and that she had never been in Pennsylvania. I couldn't figure out why it would have mattered, because this was not relevant to eligibility for the pension. It has occurred to me that if she had returned to Pennsylvania at this time, she very likely would have learned that Ambrose's first wife Loretta was not dead as he reportedly had told her and others, and she was apparently not yet divorced from Ambrose. This would have meant that Lottie would have learned at that point that she was not legally married to Ambrose, and this she probably felt that this was important to her application. It appears that this must have been what happened. Some of the toughest questions that Lottie was asked in this deposition, concerned her relationship with James Haight, and her daughter Eunice Ann Haight. Lottie had neglected to mention them in the first deposition and tried hard to distance herself from them in this one.- Rick Waggener

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In the file there is a report dated March 9, 1926, and written by the Inspector who seems to be the main investigator of Lottie's claim, R.S. McCall. In the report Mr. McCall summarizes and evaluates the information he has gathered. He speaks very frankly about Lottie, the claimant:

"... Manner of Testifying. Claimant's manner was altogether unsatisfactory as was that of Lena J. Salter, Richard Wayman, Mina Wayman, and Clarence O. Wayman; some of them told the truth about certain things when they thought it would help along....

Reputation. That of the claimant not good, she is and always has been a tough character, so her sisters (or half-sisters) told me and they have nothing to do with her. Her appearance is altogether against her. Mina Wayman stated while giving her deposition that she would not believe anything claimant or Lena Salter said and when I read that to claimant this Lena Salter stated Mina Wayman had been keeping a whore house at her place. She said: "Mina did not tell you that, did she?" The old man Wayman could not read nor write an neither can either of his sons. They are certainly a tough lot.

This claimant is a hard-looking specimen; she is cross-eyed in one eye and has her hair bobbed and it was unkempt, clothes ragged. I found her at the Salter shack two miles out of Ionia, a 2-room affair with two beds, one in the kitchen and the other in the living room. When I arrived this man Jim Haight was there with claimant taking care of the fires and undoubtedly living there with her....

General Remarks. The evidence in this report shows claimant and James Haight have been living together as man and wife and that she has been going by the name of Haight for about twenty years. They lived together like any other man and wife. They has a child named Eunice Ann now married and living at Lakeview, Michigan, wife of Leroy Foster...."

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The Ionia Daily Sentinel-Standard, Monday, May 23, 1938

Mrs. Lottie A. Haight, 70, died Sunday evening, May 22, at 7:20 o'clock at the home of her son Clarence Wayman, 1027 West Main street. She has been seriously ill four weeks with gall stones and cancer and has been in poor health four years.

She was born in Pennfield, Calhoun county, May 9, 1868, the daughter of Anna Ribble and William Fuller. She was married to Ambrose Wayman in 1884. Mr. Wayman died in 1924. In the year 1903 she married James Haight who preceded her in death in 1937. She came to Ionia eight years ago from Mecosta county, and was a member of the Pentecostal church.

Survivors are two sons, Richard Wayman and Clarence Waymen of Ionia, two daughters, Mrs. Lena Salter of Ionia and Mrs. Anna Foster of Lakeview; two stepchildren, George Haight of Battle Creek and Mrs. Amelia Ulrich of Evart; four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren; three brothers, Charles Fuller, James Fuller of Battle Creek, and ….(illegible)…of Battle Creek and two sisters, Mrs. Faye Spaulding and Mrs. Libby Mungas of Battle Creek.

Funeral services will be held from the Bradley funeral home on West Washington street Thursday afternoon, May 26, at 2:30 o'clock with the Rev. A. J. Brumly of Detroit officiating. Interment will be in the Woodard Lake cemetery.

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Ionia Daily Sentinel - Friday, 27 May 1938

Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon, May 26, at 2:30 o'clock for Mrs. Lottie A. Haight, 70, at the Bradley funeral home on West Washington Street. Interment was in the Woodard Lake cemetery. Rev. A. J. Brumly officiated. Mrs. Haight died at the home of her son, Clarence Wayman, 1027 West Main Street, Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock after a serious illness of four weeks.

Pallbearers were Glenn Ulrich, Roy Foster, William Salter, Clarence Wayman, Floyd Elliott and John Ogden.

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Lottie is buried in the Woodard Lake Cemetery in Ionia, Ionia County, Michigan.

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Lottie's death certificate was posted on-line by the State of Michigan:

Michigan Department of Health
Certificate of Death
No. 34 5231
Place of death: Easton Township, Ionia County, Michigan
Name: Lottie Haight
Address: 1027 N. Main
Sex: female
Color: white
Marital status: widowed
Spouse's name: James R.
Date of birth: May 9, 1868
Age: 70 years, 13 days
Occupation: at home
Birthplace: Pennfield, Mich.
Father's name: William Fuller
Father's birthplace: Canada
Maiden name of mother: Anna Ribble
Mother's birthplace: Pennfield, Mich.
Informant: Lena Salter (her daughter)
Address: Ionia, Michigan
Burial: Woodard Lake, May 24, 1938
Date of death: May 22, 1938
Cause of death: carcinoma of pancreas

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From Ancestry.com. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012:

Name: Charlotte Ann Haight
Birth Date: 9 May 1868
Birth Place: Pennfield, Calhoun County, Michigan, USA
Death Date: 22 May 1938
Death Place: Ionia, Ionia County, Michigan, USA
Cemetery: Woodard Lake Cemetery
Burial or Cremation Place: Palo, Ionia County, Michigan, USA
Has Bio?: Y
Spouse: Ambrose Wayman
Father: William Saunders Fuller
Mother: Anna Fuller
Children: Lena Jane Salter

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