Person
- Died
- 1961-09-01 · Beaver Island
- Work
- Owner, King Strang Hotel
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- communityheritagedemography
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
Fred Spaulding, independently described in 1961 and 2011 as a former owner of the King Strang Hotel, died in Chicago on September 2, 1961, and was interred at Bay City.
Evidence and limits
This is an episode-qualified obituary identity. The later retrospective corroborates the hotel connection but does not identify a birth record.
Sources
- Identifies Fred Spaulding as a former owner of the King Strang Hotel and reports his September 2 death in Chicago and Bay City interment. It supplies no full civil identity or funeral record.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1961-10_Beaver-Beacon
- The held five-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published notice or report; it does not expand the source-specific identity, event, or outcome claims.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1961-10_Beaver-Beacon
- The retrospective independently identifies Fred Spaulding as having owned the King Strang Hotel. It does not provide a birth record or additional death-record detail.
Added 1 August 2026 · revised 3 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Fred Spaulding”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/people/fred-spaulding/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, October 1961, “Obituaries.” (and 2 further sources listed on the page).
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