Coldsnow, Alva Adina

1884 - 1935  (~ 50 years)

• Name	Coldsnow, Alva Adina  [1]
  Born	Oct 1884	Northwest Township, Williams County, Ohio, USA   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Died	31 Jan 1935	Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, USA   [1, 3]
  Buried	Riverside Memorial Park, Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, USA   [1]
  Person ID	I12445	Sackett | Beatrice Marie Sackett
  Last Modified	20 Aug 2011

  
  

  Father	Coldsnow, Franklin Elmer,   b. 21 Feb 1862, Williams County, Ohio, USA ,   d. 23 May 1915, Williams County, Ohio, USA  (Age 53 years)
  Mother	Gilbert, Lydia,   b. 13 Jun 1865,   d. Unknown
  Married	30 Dec 1883  [3]
  Children	1. Coldsnow, Alva Adina,   b. Oct 1884, Northwest Township, Williams County, Ohio, USA ,   d. 31 Jan 1935, Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, USA  (Age ~ 50 years)
  Family ID	F10444	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Sackett, Elizabeth Pearl,   b. 6 May 1887, Gobles, Van Buren County, Michigan, USA ,   d. Jul 1918, Coutts, Alberta, Canada  (Age 31 years)
  Married	24 Dec 1906	Paw Paw, Van Buren County, Michigan, USA   [1, 4]
  	Groom's name: Alvah A. Coldsnow Groom's race or color (on document): Groom's age: 22 years Groom's birth year: 1884 Groom's birthplace: Ohio Bride's name: Lizzie Pearl Sackett Bride's race or color (on document): Bride's age: 19 years Bride's birth year: 1887 Bride's birthplace: Michigan Marriage date: 24 Dec 1906 Marriage place: Paw Paw, Van Buren, Michigan Groom's father's name: Frank E. Colds... Groom's mother's name: Lyda Gilbert Father of bride's name: Fred Sackett Mother of bride's name: Susan Earl Film number: 2342675 Digital GS number: 4209085 Image number: 612 Reference number: v 5 p 225 rn 5717 Collection: Michigan Marriages 1868-1925
  Children	1. Coldsnow, Mildred Geneva,   b. 15 Jan 1908, Van Buren County, Michigan, USA ,   d. 1986, Idaho, USA  (Age 77 years)   2. Coldsnow, Stanley Fred,   b. 11 Mar 1914, Orient, Ferry County, Washington, USA ,   d. 27 Jan 1994, Sandpoint, Bonner County, Idaho, USA  (Age 79 years)   3. Coldsnow, Stella,   b. 11 Mar 1914, Orient, Ferry County, Washington, USA ,   d. Abt 1919  (Age 4 years)   4. Coldsnow, Susan Elizabeth,   b. 13 Aug 1916, Coutts, Alberta, Canada ,   d. 1998, Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, USA  (Age 81 years)
  Last Modified	20 Aug 2011
  Family ID	F4704	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Muchle, Augusta,   b. 22 Aug 1896,   d. 6 Mar 1963, Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, USA  (Age 66 years)
  Married	27 Nov 1919
  Last Modified	18 Jan 2009
  Family ID	F10445	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map	Load the map	Born - Oct 1884 - Northwest Township, Williams County, Ohio, USA Married - 24 Dec 1906 - Paw Paw, Van Buren County, Michigan, USA Child - Coldsnow, Mildred Geneva - 15 Jan 1908 - Van Buren County, Michigan, USA Child - Coldsnow, Stanley Fred - 11 Mar 1914 - Orient, Ferry County, Washington, USA Child - Coldsnow, Stella - 11 Mar 1914 - Orient, Ferry County, Washington, USA Child - Coldsnow, Susan Elizabeth - 13 Aug 1916 - Coutts, Alberta, Canada Died - 31 Jan 1935 - Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, USA Buried - - Riverside Memorial Park, Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, USA  = Link to Google Earth
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  	Coldsnow, Alva Adina (1884-1935) Picture from "Ancestors and Descendents of Frederick Plummer Sackett" by Andrew P. Sackett; page 135
  	Alva A. and Elizabeth Sackett Coldsnow Picture from "Ancestors and Descendents of Frederick Plummer Sackett" by Andrew P. Sackett; page 135

  
  

• Notes

  Aiva Adina Coldsnow was the son of Frank Elmer Coldsnow and his wife, Eliza Jane Gilbert Coldsnow. He was born in Williams County, N.W. Township, Ohio. He was a steam engineer and also farmed. 'Tizzy" Pearl and Alva settled on a homestead in Western Canada about 1910 near the town of Coutts. Between 1910 and 1918.this was their home. Due to drought conditions they prospered only intermittently. They built a house and outbuildings and they proved up on the homestead. Alva's trade as a steam engineer made it possible for him to obtain work on neighboring farms that used large steam units for power. He also worked in the smelter at Trail and in lumber mills in the Nelson area. Thus his family had a good standard of living even through the worst drought in memory. However, he did have to spend long periods away from home and worried about leaving his family on the prairie even though they had good neighbors, and Pearl was fretful and lonely at times. So from time to time Alva sent the family back to Michigan where they could visit the Sacketts and the Coldsnows. Their daughter Mildred really did not like leaving the farm on those occasions and remembers crying every time they boarded the train. In 1914, the whole family came south to visit the Earl Sacketts near the town of Orient, Washington. Earl, at that time, had a sawmill, a grain threshing outfit and a dairy farm so Alva found plenty to do there. Mildred attended local school with the Sackett children. Twins, Stanley and Stella, were born to Pearl during that 1914, winter. The next spring they returned to their home at Coutts, Canada, where their affairs moved on as usual. In the spring of 1918, the family was on the farm and Alva was working away from home. There were four children in the family now. Pearl was pregnant again and was not feeling well. She wrote to Alva to come home. They were preparing to meet him at the train depot when Pearl became desperately ill. She died in July, 1918. After the funeral Frank Sackett had her body sent to Michigan where it was buried in the Earl Cemetery in Pine Grove Township. Logan Sackett, who had homesteaded near Wolfpoint, Montana, drove to Coutts and took the children home with him where they remained for nearly a year. Later, because of the severe Montana winters, they were sent to Alva's parents in Michigan. Alva, of course, was discouraged and decided to leave Canada. He found another steam engineering job at the lumber mill in Elk, Washington. In 1920, Alva married a Gusta Muehier. With a home established in Elk, Alva brought his children west to live with them. AIva and Gusta had five children: Orville, Ethel, Yvonne, Millicent and Jack Coldsnow. Alva died on January 31, 1935, of a long-standing lung ailment and was buried in the Riverside Cemetery, Spokane, Washington. - [Andrew P. Sackett, p. 134] ------ d: 30 Jan 1935 in Spokane WA - died of Tuberculosis at Edge Cliff Sanitarium in Spokane WA - [Millicent Hollenbeck]

  
  

• Sources

  [S293] Andrew P. Sackett, Sackett, Andrew P., (1983), p134 (Reliability: 3). [S954] 1900 U.S. Census. [S65] Millicent Hollenbeck, (E-mail). [S124] Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925, (FamilySearch.org), Reference number: v 5 p 225 rn 5717 (Reliability: 3).