Photo of the Vance "Canyon" Hotel at Glendale, Montana
 

 

 (Left to Right) George, Edward, Sherman, Oscar, Fred, Arthur and Walter ( missing is Sister Mary )



 
  
 

 

 

Charles and Elizabeth Vance were married October 31, 1854 at a Baptist Church (St. Armand East) Missiqui,, Quebec

Charles was born in Ireland, February 1821 and moved to US. His father William and Mother Sarah, moved the family to Canada where William died in 1866.

Elizabeth Turner was born in Vermont, 1835, Daughter of Hamilton Turner and Elizabeth Himes. Elizabeth died in 1924 at the age of 88 and Charles died in 1905 at the age of 86.


 In 1878, the family put up for sale, their farm, livestock, and furnishings, preparing for their departure to the United States. Their Daughter Mary had already married in 1876 and located to Minnesota, which in all likeliness, the family passed through sometime in 1878 or early 1879 to visit on their way to the Montana Territory where they arrived in 1879. They arrived at Glendale in 1879 with their seven young Sons. Payroll records show that Charles Vance was in the "employ" of the Hecla Consolidated Mining Company.
 
(Forget-me-nots) from "Granpa" and "Grandma" Vance to Ethel (Grandaughter)

Elizabeth Vance and Sabina Eighorn in Melrose


Image courtesy of Jakoby Lowney collection
 Prior to their departure from Canada, The Family sold their farm, "lock, stock, & barrel".


Image courtesy of Jakoby Lowney collection
The farm would eventually sell to a neighboring farm.


1889 Declaration of Intention to become a Citizen of the United States
Charles Vance

 

           
Vance Family photos at Melrose, Montana

 


Business Letterheads and Checks from Family business'


Sherman Vance Merit presented to him by teacher back home in Canada 1876

 


Percival and Royaston Vance (Percy and Roy) Children of  George and Mary Vance




Vance Home in Melrose around 1914. Standing in doorway is Elizabeth Vance, Mary Pond at gate, and George Slater (child)
This home burnt in 1935 according to records kept by Bertha Little.

 
         
  Photos Left to Right: Vance Children, Percy, Roy and Ethel with Parent's George and Mary at home in Dewey, Ethel and Roy 1880s Glendale

 

         
Mary Pond Vance, Wife of  George Vance

 


Henry Smith Pond and George Vance operated a Mercantile in Dewey. This photo dates to about 1890-1892. Henry Pond was the Father-in -Law to George Vance. (George is standing in doorway)


Interior of Vance Home at Melrose (burnt 1935)
 
 

Photo of the Vance Brothers sitting at rear of Family Hotel "1905"
(Missing is their Sister, Mary Capron) Mary moved back to Canada.
 
   
Vance Meat Market at Melrose. (formerly DeCelles)
           
Melrose Area Ranchers and their Brands. The Vances butchered these Brands in their shop.
 
 

Bertha "Ethel" Vance in June 1962 (Center) at the wedding of  Ethel's Grand-daughter Shirley Kent and Walter Gregg Lowney, Butte Montana

 


Kent Family on the Boulevard in Butte, Montana. Ethel Vance is far right. Ethel Passed away 1966 in Butte
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