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Little</b> — of Tawas City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/IC-lived.html">Iosco County</a>, Mich. Born in Argyle, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/SN-born.html">Sanilac County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1892/02-20.html">February 20, 1892</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/telephone.html">Telegraph operator</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">life insurance business</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> from Iosco District, 1923-24; defeated in primary, 1924 (Iosco District), 1926 (Arenac District), 1928 (Arenac District). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a> ancestry. Died in Tawas City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/IC-died.html">Iosco County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1974/05-15.html">May 15, 1974</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 84 days</a>). Interment at Esmond Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married to Louise Edith Stretz.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/5819481">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <br clear="all"> <hr> <span style="font-size:16pt;"><b><a name="cms00742">Au Sable Cemetery</a></b></span><br> Oscoda, Iosco County, Michigan <br> <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2><span style="font-size:14pt;">Politicians buried here:</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>George Alvin Loud (1852-1925)</b> — also known as <b>George A. Loud</b> — of Au Sable, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/IC-lived.html">Iosco County</a>, Mich.; Bay City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/BA-lived.html">Bay County</a>, Mich. Born in Bainbridge, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/GE-born.html">Geauga County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1852/06-18.html">June 18, 1852</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lumber.html">Lumber business</a>; staff member for Gov. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pindall-pingree.html#059.47.00">Hazen S. Pingree</a>, 1897-1901; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Michigan</a> 10th District, 1903-13, 1915-17; defeated, 1912. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/english.html">English</a> ancestry. Killed in an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/automobile.html">automobile accident</a> at Myrtle Point, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/CO-died.html">Coos County</a>, Ore., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1925/11-13.html">November 13, 1925</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 148 days</a>). Interment at Au Sable Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/louanner-louwet.html#236.76.28">Henry M. Loud</a>; married to Elizabeth Glennie.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000449">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406939">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <br clear="all"> <hr> <span style="font-size:16pt;"><b><a name=" ">Memory Gardens Cemetery</a></b></span><br> Tawas City, Iosco County, Michigan <br> <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2><span style="font-size:14pt;">Politicians buried here:</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>George Allen Prescott (1862-1927)</b> — also known as <b>George A. Prescott</b> — of Tawas City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/IC-lived.html">Iosco County</a>, Mich. Born in Reynoldsville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/JF-born.html">Jefferson County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/03-01.html">March 1, 1862</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/stsen.html">Michigan state senate</a> 28th District, 1895-98; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of Michigan</a>, 1905-08; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Michigan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1924/MI.html">1924</a>. Died in Tawas City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/IC-died.html">Iosco County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1927/10-19.html">October 19, 1927</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 232 days</a>). Interment at Memory Gardens Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Charles Holden Prescott and Sarah (Barnard) Prescott; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1883/">1883</a> to Effie May Test; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/prescott.html#143.54.60">Charles Test Prescott</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/prescott.html#024.04.52">George Allen Prescott Jr.</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/prescott.html#163.39.35">George Allen Prescott (1913-1988)</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/white6.html#351.36.54">Leonard White</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1351.html">Prescott family</a> of Tawas City, Michigan (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/103319878">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/143/54.60.jpg" width=70 height=102 border=0 alt="Charles T. Prescott"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Charles Test Prescott (1884-1961)</b> — also known as <b>Charles T. Prescott</b> — of Prescott, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/OG-lived.html">Ogemaw County</a>, Mich. Born in Tawas City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/IC-born.html">Iosco County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1884/10-01.html">October 1, 1884</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">Merchant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lumber.html">lumber business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/realestate.html">real estate broker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">rancher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">cattle breeder</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/stsen.html">Michigan state senate</a> 28th District, 1947-61; died in office 1961; delegate to Republican National Convention from Michigan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1952/MI.html">1952</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-kappa-epsilon.html">Delta Kappa Epsilon</a>. Died, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/lung.html">pulmonary embolism</a>, in University of Michigan <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Ann Arbor, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WA-died.html">Washtenaw County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1961/10-24.html">October 24, 1961</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 23 days</a>). Interment at Memory Gardens Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Effie (Test) Prescott and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/prescott.html#111.03.09">George Allen Prescott (1862-1927)</a>; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/prescott.html#024.04.52">George Allen Prescott Jr.</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1906/10-03.html">October 3, 1906</a>, to Mary Dulany Fitzhugh; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/prescott.html#163.39.35">George Allen Prescott (1913-1988)</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1351.html">Prescott family</a> of Tawas City, Michigan (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Image source:</i> Michigan Manual 1957-58</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>George Allen Prescott Jr. (1887-1951)</b> — also known as <b>George A. Prescott, Jr.</b> — of Tawas City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/IC-lived.html">Iosco County</a>, Mich. Born in Tawas City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/IC-born.html">Iosco County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1887/08-13.html">August 13, 1887</a>. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Michigan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1928/MI.html">1928</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1951/index.html">1951</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">about 63 years</a>). Interment at Memory Gardens Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Effie (Test) Prescott and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/prescott.html#111.03.09">George Allen Prescott (1862-1927)</a>; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/prescott.html#143.54.60">Charles Test Prescott</a>; married to Lois Edna Taylor; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/prescott.html#163.39.35">George Allen Prescott (1913-1988)</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1351.html">Prescott family</a> of Tawas City, Michigan (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/103321015">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <br clear="all"> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></tr></table> <table width=100%> <td align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></table> <table width=100%> <tr><td align="center"><span style="font-size:20pt;"> <span style="font-family:garamond,serif"> <i>"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard."</i></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:8pt;">Henry L. 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