Tiffany, Bertha Carrie

  • Born April 6, 1865 in Chicago, Illinois. Died 7/08/1926 in Birmingham, Michigan. Daughter of Ephrain Schuyler and Harriet Camp Beach Williams. Granddaughter of Major Oliver Williams. Niece of Hiram Walker, Detroit/ Windsor, Canada, distiller.
  • Wife of William Curtis Noyes Tiffany. Married 6/27/1888 in Detroit, Mi.
  • Children: Leo Williams, born 8/30/1889 in Detroit. Died 5/17/1894. Walker Ephraim, born 8/30/1891 (married "Mamie" Gibson, daughter of Chelson Gibson of Clarkston.); Doris Habbin, born 10/23/1892 in Detroit. (Mrs. Hawthorne Alonzo Brown) & Gladys, born, 9/10/1896 in Clarkston, Michigan. (Mrs. William Stoothoff).
  • The residence at 43 E. Washington was built for the Tiffanys. According to family history, Bertha inherited & 10,000 from her uncle, Hiram Walker. She & husband, William moved from Royal Oak, Michigan to the "country", Clarkston, for his health. They used her inheritance to build the house & open a shoe store on S. Main St.
  • See Biographical Record of Oakland County, Mi., published in 1903, page 360; The Tiffanys of America, published 1901, and the family genealogy of Major Oliver Williams.