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Mr. and Mrs. Graves have had four children, born as follows: Howard H., March 25. 1865; Jeanettie E., November 10, 1867; Adalettie W .. September 22, 1869, died October 10, 1870; Kezza L., January 17, 1877. Mrs. Graves is a member of the Methodist Church, of Washington. Mr. Graves is an ac- tive and zealous member of the Macomb County Agricultural Society, and has been for
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vears considered among the best authorities on breeding poultry. He is a Democrat in po- litical views.
JOHN C. GRAVES, P. O. Romeo, was born August 22. 1528. in Leroy. Genesee Co., N. Y .: is the son of Ames and Betsey (Martin) Graves, natives of New York: his parents came to Michigan in 1832, and settled in Washington; his father located on 240 acres, on Section 7. on which he lived four years. when he sold 160 acres and went to Mc. Clemens. where he engaged in keeping hotel and sold liquor three months: he then estab lished a temperance house and continued its management to the end of the year. when he went to Oakland, Oakland County, and engaged in farming. which he followed the re. mainder of his life: he died January 2. 1537: his wife died in May. 1880, in Richmond, Macomb County. Mr. Graves of this sketch was married, November 12, 1850. to Aun Eliza. daughter of William and Fanny Park, of Washington, Macomb County; she was born March 6, 1832, in Onondaga County, N. Y .; her parents settled on Section 7, in Washington, in 1836, and engaged in farming: in May. 1877, they moved to the village of Romeo, where they now reside. Mr. and Mrs. Graves have four children, born as fol- lows: Frances E .. August 23, 1852; Alice M., October 24, 1853; Park C .. April 10, 1856; Carrie L., February 15, 1860. Park was married. March 13, 1877, to Cora A. Thoring- ton, of Washington, and resides with his parents: Carrie is the wife of J. C. Albertson, of Oxford, Oakland County. Mr. and Mrs. Graves are members of the M. E. Church. Mr. Graves is a Republican in politics; he has been all his life a farmer, and owns 205 acres of first-class land, with good dwelling and convenient substantial outbuildings.
LEVI P. HAINES, P. O. Romeo. son of Benjamin and Betsey Haines, was born in Mendon. Monroe Co., N. Y., November 11, 1521; the parents reared a family of twelve children, six boys and six girls; both died at seventy-two years of age, the father in 1435, the mother in 1865; they came to Michigan in 1832 and bought 160 acres of land on Sec- tions 15 and 22. in Washington. When Mr. Haines reached his majority. he bought 160 acres of what is known as " speculators' land." and began himself to clear it for a farm: three years after, he made an exchange with a younger brother (James H. Haines) for the homestead farm in Washington. his present home. December 29. 1853, he was married to Elizabeth, daughter of William aud Betsey Flumerfelt; she was born in Oxford, War- ren Co., N. J., January 16, 1525; her parents came to Oakland. Oakland County, where her father now lives, aged eighty two years. Mr. and Mrs. Haines have three children, born as follows: Mary Josephine, February 21. 1857: B. Frank. February 27, 1860; Will- iam L., February 10, 1865.
GILBERT E. HALL, P. O. Washington. Elias Hall was born in the State of New Hampshire February 9, 1799: he moved with his parents to the State of New York, where he was married to Mrs. Lydia Rood in the year 1819: he came with his family to Michi- gan. in 1832, where he settled on a farm owned by John Price, two miles south and one- half mile west of Romeo; here he lived one year; he then moved on a farm owned by a Mr. Porter, where he lived three years. With the mistaken idea that the timbered land was going to be the easier cleared and the better wheat land, he purchased a farm of eighty acres, five miles south and one- half mile east of Romeo. On this farm he resided until his death, a period of forty-six years. His trade was that of a blacksmith; in the early settlement of Macomb County, he was the only man in the county who could inake edged tools. Mr. Hall was a respected and loved neighbor and friend, living a quiet home life and one of industry ; he was a Freemason, and a Republican in politics; he was of English descent; he died in his eighty-fourth year at the home of his youngest son. Gilbert. he having had the farm on condition of caring for his parents: the date of this pioneer's decease is February 12, 1882. Lydia Whitney was born in Vermont March 5, 1795; she was married to Horace Rood, of New York State. in IS15; she had two children
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-- Laura, born at Pittsburgh, in 1816, and Hannah, born at Pittsburgh, in ISIS. Her first husband died in 1818. She married Elias Hall in 1819, and, after a residence of thirteen years in New York, came to Michigan, in 1832; she was a good and true wife, and labored as only such a woman can to make a home and bring up her children: she was a member of the Christian Church: she died September 20. 1876, having passed her eighty-first birthday. To her seven children were born by her last husband -- Horace, born at Rush. N. Y., in 1821, died in the Chattanooga Hospital in 1864; Cynthia, born in Rush, in 1823, died in infancy; Hiram, born at Rush in 1826, is now a resident of Lamotte, Sanilac Co .. Mich .; Sarah, born at Rush, in 1829. died at the home of her husband, Harry Kimball, in Washington, Mich .; Minerva, born in Rush, in 1831, is now a resident of Marlette, Mich. : Cyrus, born in Washington Township, 1833, was killed at the battle near Warrentown Junction, Va .; Gilbert, born in Washington Township, 1836, is now a resident of Washington. Of the first two daughters-Laura and Hannah-Laura died at the home of her husband, Anson Grinnell. in Washington Township. The present residence of Hannah (Perry) Rood is Fentonville, Mich.
FRANK C. HARPER, P. O. Romeo, son of Francis Harper, was born in Tyrone County, Ireland, near Castlederg. June 2. 1857; he attended the national schools in Ire- land for a year. when he came with his mother, six sisters and five brothers to the United States. The father. Francis Harper, was born in Tyrone County, Ireland, in 1816, and lived in that county until 1864, when he came to the United States: he was a son of Hugh Harper, also a native of Tyrone. Francis Harper was married to Miss Esther Bovaird, of Castlefinn. Donegal Co., Ireland, March 31, 1841; the children of this marriage were Hugh, born February 22, 1842; Sarah, February 16, 1844; William, January 9, 1846; Mary Jane. November 5, 1848, died August, 1865: Maggie, December 2, 1851; John, January 9, 1553; Lizzie and Elliott (twins), February 22. 1855: Frank C., June 2. 1857: Rebecca, June 27. 1859. died June 12, ISSO: Esther and George (twins). May 31, 1862, all born in Ireland, and Matilda, born at Hibernia, N. J., July IS, 1866. Mr. Harper. Sr .. came to Michigan with his family in April, 1868, and resided at Romeo un- til 1871, when he bought the Sisson farm of seventy acres, in Washington Township; here Mr. Harper resided until his death, November 29, 1879, when the property passed into the possession of Frank C., the present owner. Hugh married Mary Faulkner, and resides at Syracuse: Sarah married George Wadley, and resides in Florida: William mar- ried Eliza Spring, and lives in Sanilac; Maggie married James Hamilton, and resides in Lapeer: John married Mina Fox, and resides in Lapeer; Lizzie married Charles Gibbs, and resides in Gladwin County; Elliott is a blacksmith at Disco, Shelby Township; Es- ther is unmarried and residing at Lapeer with her sister, Mrs. Hamilton; George resides in Oakland County, and Matilda lives with her mother and brother on the homestead. Mrs. Harper, the mother of this family, was born at Castlefinn. Ireland, December 25, 1821; is a member of the M. E. Church. Hugh and Sarah Harper were the pioneers of the family in the United States; they arrived in Michigan in 1563, one year before their father immigrated. Mr. Harper, politically. is a Democrat.
JOHN R. HAZARD, P. O. Mt. Vernon, was born in Shelby, Macomb County, Au- gust 14, 1822: he is the son of James and Hannah (Beebe) Hazard, the former born in Russell, Mass., July 26, 1796, the latter in Bennington, Vt., July 18. 1798; she died July 3. 1845. Mr. H. of this sketch came to Michigan and lived for a time on the Huron River, near Detroit; the land had not come into market, and he came to Macomb County, where he bought ninety acres of Government land, and, on the 10th of July. 1823. he received his patent, No. 108, signed by President Monroe; here he lived the remainder of his life: his death occurred in 1825. Mr. H. of this sketch was reared a farmer, and has made agriculture the business of his life; he owns 164 acres of improved land, which
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came into his possession in 1857. This farm was formerly the homestead of Judge Burt. who purchased it in 1822, and remained its owner until 1857. Mr. H. was married, No. vember 15, 1853, to Almira, daughter of Ephraim and Persis Graves (see sketch of G. E. Graves), natives, respectively. of Vermont and Connecticut. Mr. and Mrs. H. have had two children -- John O., born May 22. 1859, and Alma V .. June 24, IS61. Mr. H. is a Republican, and both himself and wife are members of the Baptist Church, of Mt. Ver- non. In 1879, Mr. H. built an elegant and substantial residence on his farm at a cost of nearly $5,000.
RUSSELL T. HAZELTON, Superintendent of H. R. Hazelton's lumber-mills at Washington, Macomb County, was born in Ray Township, this county, May 17, 1849, and is a son of Thaddeus Hazelton, who was born in Canada September 12, 1812. and came to Macomb County in 1838. Thaddeus Hazelton married Louisa Roberts, born in Connecticut in 1819: they had eight children. of whom our subject is the seventh. At the age of fif teen, he left his parental roof and lived with his brother. Hiram R., in whose employ he still remains, on a large salary. He was married. in October. 1870, to Miss Harriet Du- sett, by whom he had two children, one living, Jessie L. Mrs. Hazelton died September 17. 1877, and he again married, January 1, 1879, this time to Miss Ida S. Jones. Mr. Hazelton is a member of the Congregational Church at New Haven: he has worked his way up by his own efforts; is a self-made man, a shrewd business man, and very ingen- ious, and successful in all his undertakings.
THADDEUS HAZELTON, P. O. Romeo, was born in Ingham County, Mich., June 25, 1845; came to Macomb County in 1849, and went with his father's family to Missouri in 1857, returning to Michigan in 1861. He enlisted, when twenty years old, at Pontiac, in the Third Michigan Volunteer Infantry, Company G, and was honorably discharged at Knoxville, Tenn. He commenced farming as an occupation in 1868. November 9, 1871, he was married to Martha, daughter of Oliver Dudley, born December 11. 1555: they have two sons-Orsel, born December IS, 1572; and Ransom, born September 14. 1874.
RANSOM HAZELTON was born November 21, 1807. in Madison County, N. Y., and went to Canada with his parents when nine years old. In October, 1829, he was married to Polly Whiting, a native of the State of New York: they came to Michigan in February, 1837, and reached Detroit just in time to participate in a celebration in that city on the admission of Michigan as a State: they settled in Aurelius, Ingham County, where they encountered all the vicissitudes and privations of pioneer life, and reared eight children -- Allen, Delia, Adaline, Mary, David, Thaddeus, Sylvester and Clarrie. Mr. Hazelton drew the first load of lime to Lansing for the building of the capitol. In March, 1849, he set- tled in Ray. Macomb County, where he remained until 1857, when he went to Missouri and lived until the rebellion broke out, and, being a decided Union man, he was obliged to secure safety by change of locality, and, with a great deal of trouble, moved his family back to Michigan, which was no sooner accomplished than he enrolled as a soldier in the Fifth Michigan Volunteer Infantry, Company F, enlisting March 19, 1862, at Mt. Clem- ens; he was afflicted with goiter. and was discharged February 11, 1863, at Camp Pitcher: he re-enlisted. November 1, 1863, in the First Michigan Cavalry, Company A, and was discharged June 19, 1865, at Cumberland, Md .. on the Surgeon's certificate of disability from wounds received in the battle of the Wilderness; he was in the several actions at Williamsburg. Fair Oaks, Malvern Hill. Seven Pines, Wilderness and Fredericksburg. He ret irned to Macomb County, where he has followed the vocation of a farmer: he is now seventy-four years old. and lives with his son Thaddeus.
IRA P. HOLCOMB. P. O. Romeo, was born in Hartland, Niagara County, N. Y., September 24, 1817; is son of Apollos and Mehitable (Bunnell) Holcomb: the former was
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born in 1791: was a soldier of 1812, and wounded at the burning of Buffalo by the Brit- ish in IS14: a bullet struck his uplifted arm and sped to the shoulder: the " knuckle " of the elbow joint was cut off and came out of the wound, which was in a state of suppur- ation two years, occasionally capping over; one day, he remarked to his son that he believed the bullet had returned to the place of entry. and. taking his knife. probed the cavity and took out the bullet. which, with the fragment of bone. is in the possession of Mr. Hol- comb, of this sketch. His father died October 16, 1823, in Hartland. Micha Holcomb, father of Apollos Holcomb, was born in 1752; served in the Revolution. and died in 1840. in Washington. Macomb Co., Mich .; his wife was Hannah Hays. Mr. Holcomb came to Michigan at nineteen, and, after some prospecting, settled in Dryden, Lapeer Co., Mich. He was married to Elizabeth B., fifth daughter of Eben and Elizabeth (Corey) Taft, of Kingsville, Ashtabula Co., Ohio; she was born in Harrison, Cortland Co., N. Y., March 1. 1821. Mr. Taft was a native of New Hampshire; was a man of singularly noble and upright character; he became deaf fifteen years before his death, which occurred at Kingsville September 29, 1849: he felt his affliction most acutely, but only expressed regret at being deprived of the privilege of hearing the Gospel preached; he used to say, with tears, that he had never expected to belong to the " stay-at-home " class. He was seventy-eight years old. His wife was born in Vermont, and died at Kingsville Novem- ber 10, 1858, aged seventy-five years. Mr. and Mrs. Holcomb have five children born in Dryden as follows: Frank H., June S, 1847; Horace A., November 13, 1852: Ira P., Jr., December 29. 1854; Sarah J., March 6. 1857; Clara E., November 17, 1860. Mr. Hol- comb removed his family to Romeo December 1, 1863, and. a year later. settled two miles south on Washington Center; after a stay of four and a half years. he went to a farm of 160 acres on Section 10. township of Washington, which is the present homestead. The patriot ancestor of Mr. Holcomb left in the family three varieties of ancient buttons- one stamped with the " Mayflower;" one a relic of the Revolution, with the "eagle, " and another sort whose date and meaning are unknown.
AUGUSTUS M. HOVEY, P. O. Romeo, was born November 27, 1810. in Warsaw. Genesee Co .. N. Y . : is son of Gurdon and Anna (Starkweather) Hovey; the former was born June 6, 1779, and died June 11, 1870; the latter was born in Williamstown, Mass., March 25, 1789. and died March 21. 1869; they came to Michigan in 1825 and settled on Section 2, Washington Township, buying eighty acres of Government land, where they passed the remainder of their lives. Mr. Hovey has always pursued the calling of his father: at his death, he succeeded to the estate, and. in addition to agriculture, has been engaged some years in the manufacture of lumber in Lapeer County. He was married. January 10. 1836, to Malvina Humphrey, of Almont. Mich. ; they had six children-Jul. iette, born February 17, 1837: Hiram A .. December 8, 1838; Lavinia, September 13, 1840, deceased: Asa MI., August 24. 1842; Lovina E., August 23, 1847; Martha E .. August 24, 1853. Mrs. Hovey died September 20, 1858. Mr. Hovey was married a second time, to Margaret Harper, born in Ireland May 21, 1838: both belong to the M. E. Church. Mr. Hovey is a Republican in politics.
JASON E. INMAN was born September 16, 1856, in Ray, Macomb Co .. Mich .; is son of William and Harriet Inman, both of whom were born in New York, and are still living in this township. (See sketch of Mr. Inman. ) Mr. Inman, of this sketch, was married, September 16, 1879, to Mattie E., daughter of Henry and Amanda Shaw, who are residing in the village of Romeo; Mr. Shaw was born at Johnstown, N. Y .; Mrs. Shaw is a native of Onondaga. N. Y. Mrs. Inman was born September 9, 1859, in Washington. and is a member of the Baptist Church at Romeo. Mr. Inman is a Republican in polit- ical views.
WILLIE J. INMAN, P. O. Romeo, was born in Ray, Macomb County, February 13.
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1863: is son of William and Harriet (Teller) Imman: his father was born May 3. 1831, in Greene County. N. Y .: his mother was third child of Jefferson J. and Margaret (Miller) Teller, born February 24. 1832. in Greene County, N Y .. and married January 1, 1852. They were members of the M. E. Church, and had four children. viz .: Florence C., born in Ray Township August 6, 1553, is an artist: Jason E .. born in Ray September 16. 1856, married Mattie E. Shaw (see sketch): Willie J .; Cassins M. was born September 16, 1865. in Washington, is at school. James Teller. father of Jefferson J .. was born in Holland in 1759: was only son of Jacobus Teller. who died while he was young. James accom- panied an uncle to America, and was a patriot of the Revolution, serving in the commis- sary department, and was at the battle of Stony Point. on the Hudson River: he was en- gaged in the business of a furrier afterward. and was drowned in 1807, while crossing Lake Erie; his wife, Sarah ( Woolsey) Teller, was born near Marlboro. N. Y. ; they settled at Waterford, N. Y. : the husband died, and the wife married Joshua Sutton, a member of the Society of Friends: she came to Michigan in 1836, and died at her son Jefferson's in 1810. William Miller, maternal grandfather of Harriet Teller, was born in Portsmouth, England, Angust 14, 1763; he was a marine in His Majesty's (King George) service, and was appointed Master of Arms on board the Rhinoceron in 1752, and on the Nestal. British frigate, in the Revolutionary war; after his discharge, he was licensed to exhort in the Methodist Church. His wife, Margaret Brundige, was born in Nova Scotia December 29, 1770. and died June 1, 1851; they came to Michigan from Hunter. Greene Co., N. Y., and settled in Bruce. Macomb County, where they passed the remainder of their lives. Mr. Miller died March 25. 1859. They had seven sons and four daughters. Jefferson J. Tel- ler was born October 20. 1805, in Greene County, N. Y .: came to Michigan in 1824 and settled in Addison, Oakland County, and was for many years a local preacher in the Protest ant Methodist Church. Margaret (Miller) Teller was born February 14. 1805. in Greene County, N. Y., and married in 1826. Jefferson Teller died in Richfield, Genesee Co., Mich., February 14, 1875; they had seven daughters and two sons. John Inman, father of William Inman, was born in Greene County. N. Y., November 23. 1801. He was mar- ried to Jane Gass October 20, 1826, and settled in Ray Township in October. 1831, and died December 22. 1843. William and Eleaner Gass came from Scotland to America in 1774, and settled in Lexington, Greene Co., N. Y .; a son, John Gass, was born in 1776, who married Rebecca McGregor. of Scotch parentage; they had seven sons and seven daughters. one of whom was Jane, who married William Inman: they settled in Ray in 1837; thirteen children grew to maturity and settled adjacent to each other, and formed the "Gass settlement." The descendants by direct lineage and intermarriages number 330, of whom 275 are living, and 200 of whom attended a Grass re-union of recent date, held at Davis, Macomb County.
WILLIAM INWOOD, P. O. Romeo. was born February 28. 1791, at Headley Park. Hampshire, England: is son of James and Mary Inwood, the former a native of Hamp- shire. England. the latter of Batts' Corners, Surrey. England. William Inwood and his wife, grandparents of Mr. Inwood of this sketch, were born in the same shire in England. Mr. Inwood was married, in March. 1821, to Charlotte Remnent. of Surrey. England: of ten children born to them, seven are still living-three sons and four daughters, viz. : Ruth. Mrs. Andrew Wood, of Fentonville. Genesee County; James, living in Cannon. Kent Co., Mich .: Mary. Mrs. Henry Douglass. of Fentonville, Mich .: Esther, Mrs. Penn- ington, of Rockford, Kent Co., Mich .: William, farmer in Washington: Henry and Ara- minta. residing with their parents. Mr. Inwood landed at New York in the spring of 1837, and settled in Washington, where he has spent the majority of his time, working at his trade of mason and bricklayer: about twenty years ago, be located on 200 acres of land, which constitutes his present homestead; he and his wife are members of the Bap-
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tist Church. Mr. Inwood is the second oldest man in the town, and is ninety-one years old: he served in the battle of Waterloo, and his grandfather was a soldier in the British army during the entire struggle between Great Britain and the Colonies. Mr. Inwood is a Republican in political views.
HENRY JERSEY (deceased), was born January 28, 1791; was son of Richard and Isabelle (Palmer) Jersey; they were natives of New York; the former died February 10. 1831, aged seventy-two; the latter, July 10, 1833, at seventy-two years of age. He was married to Sophia Price, in Rush, Monroe Co., N. Y., and in 1823 came to Michigan; he took up 120 acres of Government land in Washington, being the third set- tler in that township; everything was in a state of primeval wilderness, and he built a log house; the family lived in it about eighteen years, when Mr. Jersey built a dwelling of brick, made by himself from clay beds on his farm: they were worked until about 1875, and supplied brick for the construction of many buildings in the village of Romeo. Mr. and Mrs. Jersey had three children when they came to this township, and the fourth ehild, Mary Jane Jersey, was the first white child born in Washington; five others were born to them, and all remember the wandering bands of Indians who were as plenty as the forest leaves in their young days; the trail of the dusky throng who made their trips to Detroit for their payments, while Cass was Governor, crossed the Jersey farm. Mrs. Jersey was born in Frederick City, Md., January 23, 1799, and died September 7, 1867; she was entirely blind sixteen years; her parents, Philip and Ann Maria Price, were of German extraction: they took up 160 acres of land in Washington, and, in 1824, built a log house, now occupied by William W. Jersey, the oldest house in the township. Mr. Jersey and his wife were adherents of the Universalist Church; with the first money ($5) he earned when a boy. he bought a Bible, which is still preserved in the family; his knowledge of its contents was wonderful; he was never known to err in the place and diction of a quo- tation from it. His pioneer experiences were as striking as others that have been related; he once shot a wolf from his open door, and at one time, when boiling sap in the woods alone at night, he heard a gang of wolves overpower and kill a deer not far away; he took a burning brand and hurried home, and the next night caught one of the marauders in a trap baited with the remains of the deer. which he found in the morning. Mr. Jersey died April 19, 1859. The family burial-place is in the Central Cemetery of the township; all the grandparents, the parents and deceased children are buried there. Following is the record of the children: Betsey Ann was born March 20, 1819: married Samuel Way- cott, a native of London, England, a carpenter and joiner; she was a member of the Chris- tian Church, and died July 4, 1861. James Harlow was born February 25, 1821. he was a teacher, and married Julia A. Davison; settled on 160 acres in Hadley. Lapeer County ; in 1858, he went to Pike's Peak; was heard from the next fall, since which time there is no trace of him. William W. was born April 28, 1822; he married Emily Beebe, a na- tive of Rush. N. Y., and is a carpenter. Mary Jane was born February 12, 1824; she lives on the old homestead, where she has spent her life thus far. Peter Hazzard was born September 26, 1825; married Margaret Smith, and is a marble engraver. George Alonzo was born March 13, 1828; married Lydia Dudley and settled in Hadley. Lapeer County; he died January 6, 1876; like his father, he was remarkably well versed in the Bible. Ransom Wellington was born August 23, 1829; married Sarah Kennedy, and is a marble-dealer in Romeo. Sarah Ann was born July 14. 1831; married J. P. Sisson, a farmer of Armada, in March, 1861. Philip Priee was born December 28, 1833; married Augusta Redfield; he was a musician in Gale's Band, of Pontiac, in the civil war; he is a music teacher and marble engraver; is a member of the Masonic order. Henry Jersey was a soldier of 1812; the last " general training" in the township of Washington was held on his farm.
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