Background
Nanny Pearl Wolcott was born in August 1896 in a log cabin in Iron Mountain, Michigan. Her father, Frederick Jacob Wolcott
was born in Gold Run, California in 1870 and was a ship's captain on the Great Lakes. He died from Bright's disease in Alameda,
California in August of 1905. Nanny's mother, Pearl Lenox, was born in 1869 in Michigan. Nanny had two older siblings, Faye
and Jack. Faye was born August 28, 1893 in Illinois and Jack was born in California. Jack died in Port Huron, MI on April
15, 1955. On April 6, 1918, Nanny Pearl Wolcott married Winfield Jacob Flagg. Nanny [Wolcott] Flagg died June 1977 and Winfield
died August 1966. Both are buried in Lakeside Cemetery in Port Huron, Michigan.
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