Fales Family Original Documents

This is the marriage certificate from 1871 for Grenville Fales and Ella Prescott. It appears that Grenville and Ella met in St. Paul at the North Star Grange. I have researched the original record book of the Grange, and Ella and Grenville each became members around 1870. Ella's father Charles Abbott Prescott was an original founder of the Grange in St. Paul. (For more information see; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grange_(organization)). Charles A. Prescott was the first State Agent for the MN Grange. Information on activities and membership found by reading the original Minutes. Card numbers at; http://mnhs.mnpals.net/F/?func=find-c&ccl_term=sys=001732615.

This is Eugene's birth certificate, but note that it was not filed until 1938. He was born in 1876. This was filed so Eugene could get a Social Security number. Birth certificates were not required in 1876. (See information at; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_(United_States))

This is the 1901 marriage certificate for Wesley's parents - Eugene D. Fales and Lillian Wegel Griffin.

Isabel Cobb was Wesley's material Grandmother. Born Isabel Wegel (sometimes spelled Wagel), she was born in Fond du Lac, WI to William Davis and Anna Simpson. Her first husband was Henry Wegel. She later married a man named George Cobb, but we have not yet located a death certificate for Henry Wegel or a marriage or death certificate for Cobb. Interestingly, her spouse on the death certificate is Wegel, not Cobb.

Ella Fales was born in Illinois to Charles Abbott Prescott and Ella Sargent. She is Wesley's paternal Grandmother. Ella and husband Grenville Fales apparently lived separately for many years. Grenville was living and working in Mississippi in 1917. He and Ella are both buried in Oakland Cemetery in St. Paul - but at opposite ends of the cemetery.

This Willard Fales was Wesley's great-grandfather - Grenville's father. It appears he, and the rest of Grenville's family, followed Grenville to St. Paul after the Civil War. City directories show the family lived near CA Prescott's property on Delos Avenue on the upper West Side of St. Paul in two houses said to have been built by Willard.

Vera was Wesley's older half-sister. The family story is that she was adopted by Eugene. St. Paul city directories list Mrs. Lillian Griffin and her mother Isabel Cobb (wid George) living at 968 Burr in 1897. In 1893 and 1894 a Festy Griffin is a student and clerk for the railroad living with several other members of his family at 1040 Mississippi; but they are not in the 1897 directory. The 1895 and 1896 directories do not list Festy, but do list "Mrs. Lillian M. Griffin" as a clerk living with many of the Wegel Family (under the names of Cobb, Davis and Moore - more clarification on that later) at 547 Case. That home seems to be owned by Lillian's great uncle Jerome Moore (he was married to Isabel's sister). Therefore, it seems that Lillian and Festus married by 1985, but never lived together? I have not been able to find a marriage certificate or a death certificate for Festus.

Vera died at age 18 after having her tonsils removed. Wesley was five years old. He remembered her body laying in the front parlor in the house at 693 Delaware. She was buried in Forest Cemetery next to Lillian's grandmother Anna Davis. Isabel Davis Wegel Cobb and other members of the extended Davis family are also buried in that plot.