Early Memories of Saugatuck, Michigan : 1830-1930
Author: Heath, May Francis
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company; Grand Rapids, Mich: 1930

CHARLES SHRIVER

Charles Shriver a brother of Henry, was born in Buffalo, N. Y., in 1842 and has the same ancestral history. In the early sixties he came to Saugatuck where the two brothers engaged in commercial fishing, and lived at the Shriver's Bend, and here Charlie Shriver built a large home which in after years was used for summer boarders and now is the dining room and reception room for the Summer School of Painting.

Mr. Shriver was married to Miss Marie Vadney Greenhalgh and to whom were born four childen, Henry, dying in childhood; Mary M., now Mrs. Clarence Lynds; Lillie Ellen, Mrs. Donald Blair and Charles, who died in Chicago in 1914.

Mr. and Mrs. Shriver were most congenial, hospitable people and were known to every one as "Uncle Charlie" and "Aunt Kit," and the townspeople always responded when invited to the Shriver home at the bend. It was a tragic day in August, 1905, when Mr. Shriver went to lift the nets in Lake Michigan. He was accompanied by a Mr. Lindsey, a building inspector of Chicago who was guest at the Shriver home. They were in a small sail boat and no one will ever know what happened for they were never seen again, nor were the bodies recovered but pieces of the boat were picked up along the shore, also the little dog that always went in the boat with Mr. Shriver.

With his going the fishing industries of the mouth were closed and now only memories linger over the old place of olden days.