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township, where he now resides. July 4, 1859, John Brazee, Jr , married Charlotte Odell, daughter of Daniel and Maria Odell, of Fremont, Johnson county, Iowa, by whom he had five children, as follows: Charles F., born in Adrian, September 9, 1860; James, born same place, November 21, 1862; Fred., born same place, August 23, 1865; John, born in the city of Adrian, February 29, 1868; George, born in Adrian township, March 14, 1871. Mrs. Charlotte Brazee was born in Fremont, Johnson county, Iowa, August 21, 1841. A divorce was granted July 5, 1876. March 6, 1879, John Brazee, Jr., married Mrs. Mariette Cole, widow of Frank J. Cole, and daughter of William and Hannah Cox, of Franklin, this county. Mrs. Mariette Brazee was born in Frank- lin, this county, June 13, 1840. Her parents were among the first settlers of the county. At this time Mr. Brazee has five brothers and one sister (Mrs. Jared Howell), residing in this county. One brother, Peter, the oldest of the family, died in 1835, having con- tracted some disease while coming to Michigan. One sister, Mrs. Elisha Hawley, died in 1873.
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ENRY F. TOWNSEND was born in Westmoreland, Oneida county, N. Y., August 28, 1813. His father, John Townsend, Jr., was born in the same place, in 1791, and always lived there. He was a farmer, and owned the farm where he was born, and which his father, John Townsend, Sr., took up from the government. His ancestors came from England. John Townsend, Jr., married Parnel Bishop, daughter of David Bishop, of Paris, Oneida county, N. Y., by whom he had eight children, five sons and three daughters, Henry F. being the oldest. Mrs. Parnel Townsend was born in Branford, New Haven county, Conn., in 1789, and died in Whitesborough, Oneida county, N. Y., in May, 1873. Henry F. Townsend lived with his parents until he was twenty-one, and was brought up a farmer. In the fall of 1835 he came to Michigan and landed at Monroe the first day of November, and came directly to Adrian. His father came to Michigan the year previous and took up 640 acres of land on sections 7, 8, 17 and 18, in Dover, and the next year he took 320 acres on sections 12 and 13, in Hudson, making in all 960 acres of
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government land. Henry F. was given 160 acres on section 7, in Dover, where he has resided since the fall of 1835. When he took possession there had never been a tree cut or a road cut through. His nearest neighbor, Stephen W. Graves (the hunter) lived a little over half a mile west, Daniel Payne lived two and a half miles east, Peter Turpening and John M. Bird lived one mile south, and Gardner and David Robb and Brackley Shaw, Sr., lived one mile north. Mr. Townsend, Stephen Graves and Con- stant Rowley cut a road from the Hudson town line east as far as Mr. Payne's, a distance of three and a half miles, which made a passable road through to Adrian. During the fall of 1835 Mr. Townsend built a log shanty 16x18 outside, which was occupied as a home until the spring of 1843. In the spring of 1837 he erected a frame barn 32x46, which was the only one between Gil- bert Gage's, four and a half miles east, and Bean creek. In 1857 he was elected justice of the peace, and held the office twelve years, and has served many years as constable and highway com- missioner. He has always taken an active interest in the general improvement of the county in all directions. He has served as director and judge of the county fairs, and dealt to some extent in good stock. In 1859 he erected an elegant gravel brick house, manufacturing his own brick from material on his farm. June 16, 1836, Henry F. Townsend married Miss Lucy R. Bennett, daughter of Jonathan and Mary Bennett, of Westmoreland, Oneida county, N. Y., by whom he has had three children, as follows : John A., born July 31, 1837, a farmer of Madison, this county ; Milton H., born November 3, 1841, was a soldier in the war of the rebellion, a member of Company D, Twelfth Michigan In- fantry, and was badly wounded at Corinth, Miss .; he occupies and owns a part of the old homestead, which now consists of over 300 acres; Lucy A., born March 13, 1844, now the wife of A. B. Bedell, of Clayton. Mrs. Lucy R. Townsend was born in Salem, Washington county, N. Y., February 10, 1814, and came to Mich- igan in 1836 with her husband. She was left an orphan when she was very young, and she knows but very little about her parents. She is perfectly familiar, however, with pioneer life, and can fully realize all the trials and hardships, the hopes, the comforts and en- joyments of a settlement in a new country. There was no kero- sene oil in Lenawee county forty-five years ago, but it was quite as necessary to have artificial lights then as now. Mrs. Townsend
was out of candles and material to make them of, and she coaxed her husband to borrow a dog, which belonged to a man in Canan- daigua. That night Mr. Townsend and his wife and the borrowed dog went "coon hunting," and succeeded in capturing two coons.
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Mrs. Townsend procured oil enough to furnish plenty of light dur- ing the winter. The first butter she sold was made in the spring of 1837. Mr. Townsend broke his hoe and needed a new one, and his wife let him have what butter she had in a tin pail, and he took it to Adrian afoot, and traded it for a hoe. Mrs. Townsend knows all about pioneer life, and has passed through scenes that would terrify many ladies of the present day. For instance, she did not have a new dress during the first four years of her residence here, and probably would not have had one then but her last one was just about worn out, and she was obliged to wear her night dress while she washed it. She did not buy a pound of sugar in four years, but manufactured a supply in a small kettle every spring.
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UCIUS JUDSON was born March 12th, 1800, in Ver- mont, near Lake Champlain, and was the eldest of five children, viz .: Lucius, Marshall, Crowel, Sarah and Thomas, all dead but Thomas. Their father, Jonathan Judson, and mother, Sarah (Dayton before marriage) and children moved, in 1816, to Scipio, Cayuga county, N. Y., where the father died in 1820, leaving the care of the family on the mother and eldest brother. In 1823 the family moved to Western New York, Lucius, Thomas and their mother to Brighton, Monroe county, where the mother died in 1827; Marshall, Crowel and Sarah to Collins, Erie coun- ty, where Crowel died in 1828 ; Sarah married Alfred Bingham, and died in Mishawaka, Ind., in 1844; Lucius died in 1845 of contagious erysipelas, which took off quite a number of the first settlers of the town of Raisin. Marshall died in Collins, Erie county, N. Y., in 1876. Lucius came to Michigan in May, 1832, and bought the e. half of the n. w. } of sec. 26, Raisin, and in October, 1834, moved from Rochester, N. Y., with his family, (wife, Fanny Messenger before marriage,) Lucius V., and Jona- than M., and settled on the land bought in Raisin. Lucius learned the trade of brick-making near Rochester, N. Y., and manufac- tured the first brick in Raisin, as the number of brick houses in East Raisin attest the fact. He held the office of lieutenant, and was promoted to captain of the Brighton militia which he held four
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years, was justice of the peace nine years, and supervisor and town clerk, one term each, in Raisin, where his politics was always in the minority. Lucius V. Judson was born near Rochester, N. Y., in August, 1826, and was the eldest of four children, viz .: Lucius V., Jonathan M., Sarah and Lewis C. He was married in 1848 to Mary O. Horton, who died in January, 1866, leaving two children, Clarence E. and Mary A., both married. He was mar- ried a second time, August, 1866, to Emily M. Miller, by whom he has had five children, viz .: Alice M., Frank V., Clara M., Fred. W. and Floyd E. Mr. Judson has grown up from boy- hood to manhood in the town of Raisin, and by his strict integrity, fair and honorable dealing, has accumulated a nice property, and lives to enjoy the confidence of his friends and neighbors. Clar- ence E. Judson (telegraph operator and agent at Lenawee) was married to Harriet Calkins in 1875, and has one son, Mark Glen, born January, 1879. Mary A., married to Charles A. Newton, of Erie, Pa., July, 1871, and has two children, Harriet, born August, 1874, and Clarence, born January, 1877. Jonathan M., born January, 1831, married Helen Davis, October, 1854, and they have one son, Lucius, who married Ida Pontius, January, 1879. Lewis C., born in 1843, married Mariette Densmore in 1863, and has four children, Thomas M., Florence, John and Jessie. Sarah Jud- son died August, 1831.
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BRAHAM MOE was born in Half Moon, Saratoga county, N. Y., December 7, 1803. His father, John Moe, was born in Connecticut, September 30, 1770, and when yet a boy his parents moved to Saratoga county, N. Y., and settled in the woods. John Moe was brought up a farmer, and owned a farm in Saratoga county, where he lived until 1816, when he moved to Genesee county and resided until the fall of 1826, when he came to Michigan and purchased between five and six hundred acres of land in Washtenaw county, on the town line between Ann Arbor and Northfield, about four miles north of the present city of Ann Arbor. At that time Ann Arbor village was very small-only a little hamlet in fact --- three or four years old, with two or three small stores, with no flouring mill until about 1828. There was a
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small mill at Ypsilanti. The land that Mr. Moe purchased was mostly burr oak plains, which were soon subdued and got into crops, getting twenty acres into corn and oats the first year. There was but one settler (Mr. Ainsworth) between Mr. Moe's and Ann Arbor village in 1826. Settlers came in steadily every year, and the hum of industry and the sound of the axe and hammer re- sounded through the wilderness until about the years 1830-31, when there was quite a heavy immigration set in, and most of the land in that vicinity was occupied by New York and New England people. About the year 1791 John Moe married Mary Tyler, daughter of Zebeda Tyler, of Connecticut, by whom he had ten children, Abraham being the sixth child and third son. Mrs. Mary Moe was born in Connecticut, August 18, 1774, and died in Ann Arbor, December 5, 1841. John Moe died in Ann Arbor, June 1, 1855. Abraham Moe lived with his parents until he was married, and in 1833 he came into possession of a portion of his father's farm, on section 5, in Ann Arbor. He erected a dwelling house and good out buildings, and resided there until 1877, having sold it in 1874. He was a resident of Washtenaw county for fifty years, and saw the county grow from an almost unbroken wilder- ness to its present state of fertility and beauty. There was not a frame building outside of the villages of Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti in the county, and in 1827 there was but one well, Luther Bay- der's, in the vicinity of Mr. Moe's, and all the settlers went there for water, drawing it for miles. Mr. Moe was a young man when he settled there, of a nomadic turn of mind, and soon became ac- quainted with the country, and assisted surveyors in locating land. His services were soon sought by settlers coming in to assist them in locating. His first question to a new comer was what kind of land he wanted and how much. After getting the man's idea he would start out with him, and seldom failed in suiting. His services were all gratis, thinking that neighbors were more desira- ble just then than money. There were but few Indians who lived in that vicinity, but large numbers passed through there in their annual wanderings. The woods were full of wolves, with some bear and many deer. There were large numbers of snakes, of the massauga, blue racer, and black variety. These slimy pests in- sisted on visiting the settlers' cabins, crawling between the crevices and through the floors. One of the neighbor's daughters was startled one day while lying on a bed, by having a large blue racer drop through the floor and fall upon her face, which was only considered at that time an incident in the life of a pioneer. In the spring of 1877 Mr. Moe came to Adrian and purchased a home (No. 59 Dennis street), where he now resides. He has been a resident of
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Michigan fifty-three years, and is passing his declining years in ease and comfort with his remaining family. May 1, 1831, Abraham Moe married Mary Ann Sears, daughter of Peter and Lucy Sears, of Webster, Washtenaw county, Mich., by whom he had seven children, as follows: Orville, born May 12, 1832, a farmer of Manchester, Washtenaw county; Martha Louisa, born April 8, 1834, now the wife of G. F. Sperry, of Allegan, Mich .; George, born April 8, 1836, a resident of Detroit; Sylvester, born August 1, 1839, and died December 10, 1840; Thomas, born September 17, 1841, a resident of Detroit; Alice S., born April 9, 1845, at home; Ida Maria, born July 6, 1848, at home; Florence Emily, daughter of Orville, whose mother died when she was an infant, brought up by Mr. and Mrs. Moe, born March 24, 1858. Mrs. Mary Ann Moe was born in Ashfield, Mass., September 1, 1813, and came to Michigan with her parents in 1827 and settled in Webster, Washtenaw county. Her parents were natives of Mass- achusetts, and died in Washtenaw county. Mrs. Moe died in Adrian, August 15, 1877, and was buried in Oakwood cemetery, Adrian.
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ICAJAH HAYWARD was born in Farmington, Ontario county, N. Y., January 18, 1817. He resided there until he was seventeen years old, when he came to Michigan and settled in Seneca, Lenawee county. His brother, Roswell J. Hay- ward, came to Michigan in 1831, and went to Livingston county, and in 1832 enlisted in the Black Hawk war. After the " war" he returned to New York and reported so favorably of Michigan that a family by the name of Hair soon decided to return with him. At this time Micajah Hayward, who was then not seventeen years old, also thought he would like to try his "luck" in the then new Territory. His father, Henry Hayward, had been to Michi- gan, and traveled through Wayne, Oakland, Livingston and Wash- tenaw counties, and finally located 240 acres of land on the "base line" in Livingston county, and returned home, thinking pretty well of the country. In 1833 he again came to Michigan, this time traveling through Monroe and Lenawee counties, and pur- chased one lot of land for himself on section 5, in Hudson, near
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Posey lake, besides 160 acres for his son-in-law, J. R. Hawkins. He was not as well pleased with Michigan in 1833 as he was in 1830, and refused to sell his farm in Ontario county for what he had been offered for it, and raised the price six dollars per acre, which was finally accepted, and in the summer of 1834 he came back to Michigan and settled on section 10, in Seneca. The fol- lowing year he purchased 160 acres on section 14, in Seneca, on Black creek, and erected a saw mill, the only one then in the township. Most of the lumber used in the township for several years was sawed at this mill. He lived on this farm until his death, which occurred January 26, 1842. He was born in Cum- mington, Mass., July 12, 1787. His father, Stephen Hayward, who married Hannah Tracy, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and fought at the battle of Bunker Hill, and was afterwards promoted to lieutenant. November 14, 1808, Henry Hayward married Miss Elizabeth Willitts, daughter of Micajah and Judith (Cramer) Willitts, by whom he had nine children, Micajah being the third son and seventh child. Mrs. Elizabeth Hayward was born in Stafford, Monmouth county, N. Y., February 26, 1782. Her parents were pioneers in Farmington, Ontario county, N. Y. Mrs. Hayward died in Seneca, this county, August 12, 1848. Micajah Hayward, the subject of this sketch, came to Michigan in company with an uncle, in the spring of 1834, arriving in Sen- eca on the 12th day of May, since which time it has been his home. He stayed with his father and run the saw mill until 1839, when he purchased a farm three miles north-west of his father's, where he lived until after the death of his father, when, owing to his youngest brother being killed, he moved upon the old homestead, and has resided there ever since. In 1846 he re- built the old saw mill, and run it until 1855, when he built a large steam saw mill, and in 1859 added a grist mill. In the spring of 1873 he built a cheese factory opposite his mill, and has run it successfully ever since. He owns over 600 acres of land in Seneca, all well improved and under good cultivation. Mr. Hay- ward has been three times elected justice of the peace and twice town clerk, and was elected one of the first constables and collec- tors of Seneca. He has always been a prominent man in the township, and knows as much about pioneer life as any man in Seneca. May 12, 1839, he married Miss Phila Sanger, daughter of Benjamin and Betsey Sanger, of Seneca, by whom he has had five children, as follows: Betsey S., born August 9, 1849, now the wife of Silas W. Morris, a farmer of Seneca; Roswell James, born February 6, 1843, a farmer of Seneca; Judith P., born August 5, 1845, now the wife of John Nelson, a farmer of Seneca; Effie
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Jane, born August 1, 1848, now the wife of William M. Wiley, a farmer of Seneca. Olive Ann, born June 27, 1851, at home. Mrs. Phila Hayward was born in Canandaigua, Ontario county, N. Y., and came to Michigan with her parents and settled in Sen- eca, in 1834. Her father, Benjamin Sanger, died in Seneca, in February, 1849. He was a native of Connecticut. Her mother, Mrs. Betsey (Woodard) Sanger, was also a native of Connecticut, and died in Canandaigua, N. Y., in 1827.
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SAAC HOWES was born in Brighton, Monroe county, N. Y., January 9, 1826. He lived with his parents in Brighton until the fall of 1830, when his father, Ezra Howes, with his family, consisting of his wife and six children, came to Michigan, and first located in Ann Arbor, but in the fall of 1831 Ezra Howes came to Lenawee county, and purchased a farm. of R. M. Lewis, on section 32, in Adrian, the same now owned by A. W. Brittain. It was new land, and Mr. Howes cleared it up, built good buildings, set out orchards, etc., and resided there until 1851. Ezra Howes was born in East Dennis, Barnstable county, Mass., July 14, 1787, and was the son of John and Thankful Howes, who were also natives of the same place. The ancestry of this family is traced back to 1637, to Thomas and Mary Howes, who came from Wales that year in ths ship Speedwell, and landed at Cape Cod, where they now lie buried at East Dennis. May 11, 1815, Ezra Howes was married to Miss Sally Tinney, daughter of Isaac and (probably) Sally Tinney, of Lee, Berkshire county, Mass., by whom he had six children, three sons and three daugh- ters, Isaac being the youngest. Mrs. Sally Howes was born in Lee, Berkshire county, Mass., March 7, 1790, and died in Adrian, August 14, 1855. Her father was a native of Massachusetts, and was born in 1760, and died in January, 1828. Her mother was a daughter of Samuel and Sarah Parker, who were natives of Mass- achusetts, but there is no record of them. Ezra Howes died in Adrian, December 20, 1862. Isaac Howes lived with his parents until he was twenty-one, when he went back to the State of New York, visited his birthplace, and for a few years he traveled about more or less, spending one winter in the State of Mississippi, one
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year in the State of Illinois, and in the spring of 1852 he "crossed the plains" to California, where he was engaged in gold mining until the spring of 1855, when he returned home by the Panama route. He then followed different avocations, being several years employed in constructing and repairing telegraph lines, until 1875, when he again went to California and Oregon, but only remained a few months and returned, as he could not satisfy himself in regard to business, location, etc. In 1859 he purchased a homestead at Sackrider's Corners, one mile and a half north of the city of Adrian, and in the fall of 1867 he sold out and purchased his present home, on section 26, on the opposite side of the road. November 1, 1857, Isaac Howes was married to Miss Harriet A. Howes, daughter of John and Almira Howes, of Cambridge, this county. They have never had issue. Mrs. Harriet A. Howes was born in Brighton, Monroe county, N. Y., December 28, 1832, and came to Michigan with her parents in the fall of 1847. Her father, John Howes, was a brother of Ezra Howes, and was born in East Dennis, Mass., June 4, 1797, and died in Adrian, January 17, 1879. Her mother was Miss Almira Furman, daughter of Jeremiah and Elizabeth Furman, of Aurelius, Schoharie county, N. Y. Jeremiah Furman was a soldier in the war of 1812, and perished from starvation while a prisoner in the hands of the British. Elizabeth Furman, a native of England, was born in 1785, and died in Jonesville, Mich., in 1869.
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RA STEWART was born in Stockbridge, Madison county, N. Y., February 10, 1803. He was a son of Ezra Stewart, who was an early settler of Madison county, was a farmer, and owned a farm on Chickening creek. He finally moved to Ohio, and died near Fort Defiance. Ira Stewart's mother died when he was four years old, and he was brought up by a man named Wilson, with whom he remained until he was twenty, and he knows but very little of his mother's history, not even knowing her given name, when or where she was born, or how she looked. Ira Stewart has nearly always relied upon himself and has never received any assistance from anybody, receiving only about one year's schooling. The man he lived with when a child, was given to
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drink, and did not see the necessity or care about schools or educa- tion. He has followed farming, and after he was twenty com- menced working for $10 per month, finding his first employment with Solomon Layard, father of Dr. Layard, who now resides in Raisin, this county. He remained with him some time, and in the fall of 1825 he came to Michigan, and settled in Plymouth, Wayne county, taking up 80 acres on section one, improving 40 acres, building a good log house and frame barn. He resided there until the summer of 1829, when he sold out and went into the town of Nankin and took up 240 acres, but only remained there until the first of September, 1833, when he sold out and came to Lena wee county, and purchased 240 acres in Macon, on section 14. The following spring he again sold out and purchased 160 acres on section 22, in the same town, where he has resided ever since. He cut his own road for about four and a half miles to get to his land in Macon. At that time he did not know that there was a family in the township, and went to Saline and York, in Washtenaw county, seven miles distant, to get assistance to raise his house. At the same time there were a few settlers in the west portion of the town, near what is now known as Penning- ton's Corners. Dr. Howell, Gabriel Mills, John Pennington and James Collins had settled there a short time previous. When Mr. Stewart settled in Plymouth he was poor, having only money enough to pay for his land, and he saw hard times for a year or two. Provisions could be had in Detroit with money, but as that was an article he did not possess, he was often compelled to live for some time on potatoes roasted in the ashes, seasoned with a little salt. All the money he could get hold of was what little he could earn by chopping and logging for settlers who were fortunate enough to possess a little they could spare. May 18, 1827, he commenced chopping and burning, on his land in Plymouth, de- termined to get in a little crop. He cleared off a piece and planted it to corn, potatoes, and other vegetables. He raised corn enough to fat a pig, besides having some for himself and oxen dur- ing the winter. His potatoes yielded well and lasted him until the next crop. Mills were very scarce in Michigan at that time; those in Detroit being windmills, and very unreliable. All of the flour came from Ohio. When he came to this county he had no trouble about provisions; he had some means, and there was a good mill at Tecumseh, and farmers had got to raising grain about Tecumseh. Deer and bear were plenty, and when meat was neces- sary he had no trouble in shooting a deer. One day he was look- ing for his cows in the woods, when he saw a young bear up a tree which he shot, but he soon discovered that the old bear and
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another young one was up the same tree and immediately started down. When the old bear got below the limbs of the tree, she slid down, reaching the ground before he could load his gun, but while she was moaning over the dead cub he shot, killing her almost instantly. Mr. Stewart has cleared 140 acres on the farm he now lives on, has built a good frame house, with an abundance of good barns. January 28, 1826, Ira Stewart married Betsey Ann Canfield, by whom he had six children, as follows: Charles D., born in Vernon, Oneida county, N. Y., January 8, 1827, now a farmer of Brighton, Livingston county, Mich .; Oliver, born in Plymouth, Wayne county, Mich., November 5, 1828, a resident of Nevada; Lucien, born same place, October 12, 1830, also of Brighton ; Helen, born in Nankin, Wayne county, September 15, 1832, now the wife of Isaac Scowles, a farmer near Chattanooga, Tenn .; Homer, born in Macon, January 3, 1835, runs the home farm, and is a dentist by profession ; Milton, born in same place, July 1, 1837, died in infancy. Mrs. Betsey Ann Stewart was born February 9, 1808, and died in Macon, July 10, 1837. September 28, 1837, Mr. Stewart married Eliza Wilkins, daughter of Geo. and Lydia (Booth) Wilkins, by whom he had six children, as fol- lows: Edward W., born in Macon, July 22, 1839, and died in Sherman, Wexford county, Mich., January 8, 1872; Susan, born same place, May 8, 1842, now the wife of James Osgood, of St. Johns, Mich .; Lovina E., born same place, March 18, 1845, now the widow of Rodney Palmer, of Manchester, Washtenaw county ; Mary E., born same place, September 12, 1847, now the wife of Benjamin Palmer, of St. Johns, Mich .; two children died in in- fancy. Mrs. Eliza Stewart was born in Dutchess county, N. Y., in December 1810, and died April 1, 1875. November 17, 1875, he married Mrs. Susan Wheeler, widow of James Wheeler, of Ridgeway. Mrs. Stewart was born in Dutchess county, N. Y., April 6, 1811, and came to Michigan with her parents in 1840, and settled in Ridgeway, this county.
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