Prince, Will Mason

Female 1928 - 2001  (73 years)


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  • Name Prince, Will Mason 
    Nickname Billie 
    Born 15 Jun 1928  Henry County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4

    •      According to records of the Parish of Caddo, Louisiana, connected with her marriage to Cecil F. Fiegenbaum in 1949, Will was born in Lansing, Michigan and was 26 years old at her last birthday. Calculating from the date of the marriage and her age, she would have been born about 1922-1923.
           However, her obituary in the Topeka Capital-Journal reported that she was born on 15 June 1928 in Henry County, Tennessee. This date of birth is also reported in the Social Security Death Index.
           The resolution of these discrepancies await further research.
    Gender Female 
    Died 10 Dec 2001  Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 4, 5, 6, 7
    • Her obituary in the Topeka Capital-Journal, 12 December 2001, read:

                Billie Fiegenbaum

           Will M. 'Billie' Fiegenbaum, 73, Topeka, died Monday, Dec. 10, 2001, at a Topeka hospice house.
           Mrs. Fiegenbaum worked for the Katz Drug Store in Topeka many years ago.
           She was born June 15, 1928, in Henry County, Tenn., the daughter of Ed. T. and Lelar B. Holden Prince. She attended school in Hazel, Ky., and she had lived in Topeka for the past 50 years.
           Mrs. Fiegenbaum was a former member of the Hazel Baptist Church in Hazel, Ky., and Christ Lutheran Church in Topeka.
           She married Cecil F. Fiegenbaum on Dec. 11, 1949, in Shreveport, La.
           Survivors include three sisters, Jeanette Cavitt, Mayfield, Ky., Corrine Ball, Lansing, Mich., and Mildred Lycos, Bradenton, Fla.
           Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Davidson Funeral Home. Graveside services will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday in Mount Hope Cemetery in Hiawatha. Mrs. Fiegenbaum will lie in state at the funeral home after noon Thursday, where visitation will be from 6 to 7 p.m.
    Buried 14 Dec 2001  Hiawatha, Brown County, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 7, 8
    • She was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery.
    Person ID I1082  Fiegenbaum
    Last Modified 5 Apr 2014 

    Father Prince, Edward T.,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Mother Holden, Lela,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Married (date?)  [9, 10

    •      According to records of the Parish of Caddo, Louisiana, connected with her marriage to Cecil F. Fiegenbaum in 1949, Will Mason Flanigan, former wife of J. Henry Flanigan, was the child of Ed. T. Prince and Lela Holden Prince, both residents of Lansing, Michigan, where Will had been born.
           However, an obituary published in 2001 in the Topeka Capital-Journal reported that Will's mother was Lelar B. Holden Prince and that Will was born in Henry County, Tennessee.
           The resolution of these discrepancies await further research.
    Family ID F2526  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Flanigan, J. Henry,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Married Y  [9
    • According to records of the Parish of Caddo, Louisiana, connected with her marriage to Cecil F. Fiegenbaum in 1949, Will had been married previously to J. Henry Flanigan. Details of that marriage are not known at this time.
    Divorced Y  [9
    • Details of the divorce are not known at this time.
    Last Modified 6 Aug 2018 
    Family ID F2525  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Fiegenbaum, Cecil Frederich,   b. 26 Oct 1918, Morrill, Brown County, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Feb 2012, Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 93 years) 
    Married 11 Dec 1949  Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 11, 12, 13, 14

    •      According to records of the Parish of Caddo, Louisiana, Cecil F. Fiegenbaum, age 31, of Barksdale A.F.B., Louisiana, and Will Mason Flanigan, age 26, of Shreveport, were married on 11 December 1949 at Shreveport. Cecil had previously been married to LoRee Brock and Will had previously been married to J. Henry Flanigan. Both earlier marriages had ended in divorce.
    Last Modified 6 Aug 2018 
    Family ID F355  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S22] Obituary, for Billie Fiegenbaum, 1928-2001.
      Topeka Capital-Journal (Topeka, Kansas). cjonline.com. (http://www.cjonline.com/stories/121201/obt_fiegenbaum.shtml). Published Wednesday, December 12, 2001. Accessed on 8 August 2009. Also, at FindArticles.com (http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4179/is_20011212/ai_n11773547/pg_2). Accessed on 14 April 2006.
           "She [Will M. "Billie" Fiegenbaum] was born June 15, 1928, in Henry County, Tenn., the daughter of Ed. T. and Lelar B. Holden Prince. She attended school in Hazel, Ky., and she had lived in Topeka for the past 50 years."

    2. [S176] Published cemetery records, Will M. "Billie" Fiegenbaum.
      Born in 1928; no death date; 9 [section of the cemetery?]. "Burials thru December 2002 are included in this book." Published in: Brown County Genealogical Society, Mount Hope Cemetery (Hiawatha, Kansas: Brown County Genealogical Society, 2003), unnumbered pages.

    3. [S25] Marriage license, for Cecil F. Fiegenbaum and Will Mason Flanigan.
      State of Louisiana. Parish of Caddo. Clerk of District Court. Issued on 8 December 1949. Filed with the Clerk of Court on 12 December 1949. Book 126, page 29. Certified paper copy from the Caddo Parish Clerk of Court dated 1 April 2014.
           The document consists of an application for a marriage license, the license, and the "Process Verbal of Marriage", which records the details of the marriage. The handwriting used to fill out the document does not match the signature of Cecil F. Fiegenbaum, who signed his name twice. Will Mason Flanigan did not sign the document.
           According to the application for the marriage license, Will Mason Flanigan was identified as the child of Lela Holden Prince and Ed. T. Prince, both alive and residents of Lansing, Michigan. She was born at Lansing, Michigan, was white, and 26 years of age. Her occupation was "Waitress". She had been previously married to J. Henry Flanigan; he was living; that marriage had ended in divorce.
           Calculating from the date of the marriage and her age as reported, Will would have been born about 1922-1923, a date which is in conflict with other sources.

    4. [S117] United States. Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index (Washington, D.C.: Social Security Administration), Will M. Fiegenbaum, 1928-2001.
      Accessed in February 2014 through Ancestry.com (http://search.ancestrylibrary.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=3693).
           Will M. Fiegenbaum, born on 15 June 1928, died on 10 December 2001. Will held Social Security Number 375-26-6837, issued by Michigan. The last address of record was Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas (this was not necessarily the place of death).

    5. [S22] Obituary, for Billie Fiegenbaum, 1928-2001.
      Topeka Capital-Journal (Topeka, Kansas). cjonline.com. (http://www.cjonline.com/stories/121201/obt_fiegenbaum.shtml). Published Wednesday, December 12, 2001. Accessed on 8 August 2009. Also, at FindArticles.com (http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4179/is_20011212/ai_n11773547/pg_2). Accessed on 14 April 2006.

    6. [S22] Obituary, for Cecil F. Fiegenbaum, 1918-2012.
      published in the Topeka Capital-Journal (Topeka, Kansas) on 18 February 2012; accessed online from Davidson Funeral Home (Topeka, Kansas) (http://obit.davidsonfuneral.com/obitdisplay.html?id=1034002), Legacy.com, and Tributes.com.
           Cecil F. Fiegenbaum "married Will 'Billie' Mason December 11, 1949 at Shreveport, LA. She preceded him in death December 10, 2001."

    7. [S182] Find A Grave, Inc, Findagrave.com (https://www.findagrave.com in December 2017), William M. "Billie" Fiegenbaum. Memorial #101544866.
      (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=101544866). Accessed in February 2014. Record created by "Joanne Scobee Morgan" on 30 Novenber 2012. The Memorial is maintained by "Kansas Patty". Burial was in Mount Hope Cemetery at Hiawatha, Brown County, Kansas. There was no image of a grave marker.
           The deceased is mistakenly identified as male ("I think he was also called 'Prince'.") and is associated with the wrong family ("Possibly the son of Elmer Fiegenbaum."). Birth and death data appears to have been taken from the Social Security Death Index ("His SS card was issued in Michigan before 1951."). No other source was identified.

    8. [S22] Obituary, for Billie Fiegenbaum, 1928-2001.
      Topeka Capital-Journal (Topeka, Kansas). cjonline.com. (http://www.cjonline.com/stories/121201/obt_fiegenbaum.shtml). Published Wednesday, December 12, 2001. Accessed on 8 August 2009. Also, at FindArticles.com (http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4179/is_20011212/ai_n11773547/pg_2). Accessed on 14 April 2006.
           "Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday [14 December 2001] at Davidson Funeral Home. Gravside services will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday in Mount Hope Cemetery in Hiawatha. Mrs. Fiegenbaum will lie in state at the funeral home after noon Thursday, where visitation will be from 6 to 7 p.m."

    9. [S25] Marriage license, for Cecil F. Fiegenbaum and Will Mason Flanigan.
      State of Louisiana. Parish of Caddo. Clerk of District Court. Issued on 8 December 1949. Filed with the Clerk of Court on 12 December 1949. Book 126, page 29. Certified paper copy from the Caddo Parish Clerk of Court dated 1 April 2014.
           The document consists of an application for a marriage license, the license, and the "Process Verbal of Marriage", which records the details of the marriage. The handwriting used to fill out the document does not match the signature of Cecil F. Fiegenbaum, who signed his name twice. Will Mason Flanigan did not sign the document.
           According to the application for the marriage license, Will Mason Flanigan was identified as the child of Lela Holden Prince and Ed. T. Prince, both alive and residents of Lansing, Michigan. She was born at Lansing, Michigan, was white, and 26 years of age. Her occupation was "Waitress". She had been previously married to J. Henry Flanigan; he was living; that marriage had ended in divorce.

    10. [S22] Obituary, for Billie Fiegenbaum, 1928-2001.
      Topeka Capital-Journal (Topeka, Kansas). cjonline.com. (http://www.cjonline.com/stories/121201/obt_fiegenbaum.shtml). Published Wednesday, December 12, 2001. Accessed on 8 August 2009. Also, at FindArticles.com (http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4179/is_20011212/ai_n11773547/pg_2). Accessed on 14 April 2006.
           "She [Will M. "Billie" Fiegenbaum] was born June 15, 1928, in Henry County, Tenn., the daughter of Ed T. and Lelar B. Holden Prince."

    11. [S29] Dorothy and Edna Hilgemann, Genealogical research.
      Cecil Frederich Fiegenbaum and Billie Flanigan; married 11 December 1949.

    12. [S22] Obituary, for Billie Fiegenbaum, 1928-2001.
      Topeka Capital-Journal (Topeka, Kansas). cjonline.com. (http://www.cjonline.com/stories/121201/obt_fiegenbaum.shtml). Published Wednesday, December 12, 2001. Accessed on 8 August 2009. Also, at FindArticles.com (http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4179/is_20011212/ai_n11773547/pg_2). Accessed on 14 April 2006.
           "She [Will M. "Billie" Fiegenbaum] married Cecil F. Fiegenbaum on Dec. 11, 1949, in Shreveport, La."

    13. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), page 135.
      Cecil Fredrick Fiegenbaum and Billie Flanigan were married on 11 December 1949. No place given.

    14. [S25] Marriage license, for Cecil F. Fiegenbaum and Will Mason Flanigan.
      State of Louisiana. Parish of Caddo. Clerk of District Court. Issued on 8 December 1949. Filed with the Clerk of Court on 12 December 1949. Book 126, page 29. Certified paper copy from the Caddo Parish Clerk of Court dated 1 April 2014.
           The document consists of an application for a marriage license, the license, and the "Process Verbal of Marriage", which records the details of the marriage. The handwriting used to fill out the document does not match the signature of Cecil F. Fiegenbaum, who signed his name twice. Will Mason Flanigan did not sign the document.
           According to the application for the marriage license, Cecil F. Fiegenbaum was identified as the child of Anna Kruse Fiegenbaum and Carl Fiegenbaum, both alive and residents of Fairview, Kansas. Cecil was born at Morrille, Kansas, was white, and 31 years of age. His occupation was "U.S. Air Force". He had been previously married to LoRee Brock; she was living; that marriage had ended in divorce.
           According to the application for the marriage license, Will Mason Flanigan was identified as the child of Lela Holden Prince and Ed. T. Prince, both alive and residents of Lansing, Michigan. She was born at Lansing, Michigan, was white, and 26 years of age. Her occupation was "Waitress". She had been previously married to J. Henry Flanigan; he was living; that marriage had ended in divorce.
           According to the marriage license, Cecil F. Fiegenbaum resided at Barksdale A.F.B., Louisiana, and Will Mason Flanigan resided at Shreveport, Louisiana.
           Cecil F. Fiegenbaum and Will Mason Flanigan were married on 11 December 1949. The handwriting in the "Process Verbal of Marriage" at the bottom of the document, which records the details of the marriage, is difficult to read. The place of marriage may be "Shreveport", abbreviated. The witnesses appear to have been Mrs. and Mr. [Harney?] [Scaggs?]. Lothar Kleinhans performed the marriage; his office as either a minister of the Gospel, a judge or a justice of the peace was not noted.