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RICHARD JERSEY, son of Richard and Mable (Palmer) Jersey. was born October 12. 1797: his parents were early settlers of Windom County, N. Y .. where. on the Catskill Mountain farm, the subject of this sketch was born. Mr. Jersey immigrated in 1824. and located a tract of land on Section 12. Washington Township. Seven years previously. in 1817. he married Miss Sallie P. Reed. daughter of Nathan Reed. who was murdered at Black Rock, N. Y .: they are the parents of six children. Okt residents of Washington may remember the sale of Mr. Jersey's lands for taxes during his absence from the home- stead: fortunately, this early settier of Macomb possessed a receipt of all the taxes sup- posed to be due on the land, and to this circumstance he in a great measure owes his pres- ( nt valuable farm. Politically, Mr. Jersey is a Democrat.
NATHAN KEELER (deceased), was born October 13. 1SOS, in Rush, Monroe County. New York; he was son of Ezra and Hannah (Inman) Keeler; he came to Michigan about the year 1533 and bought 120 acres of Government land on Section 35. where he lived until 1850, when he purchased 240 aeres on Sections 21 and 25; a few years later. he sold eighty acres, leaving 160 in the present homestead, where he lived until his death, with the exception of two years, which he spent in Romeo, where he owned valuable property: he died April 1. 1869. He was married. September 1. 1535. to Mary J., daughter of John and Mary (Brown) Bates, of Washington, the former a na- tive of New York, the latter of Vermont. Mr. and Mrs. Keeler have three children liv- ing-Hannah, widow of Joseph Moyers, born June 3. 1836; Mary M., July 10, 1840; and Zeolide L .. December 9, 1848; the two last named reside with their mother, and. with her. belong to the Patrons of Husbandry. Mrs. Keeler and her daughter Hannah are members of the Christian Church. to which Mr. Keeler also belonged. He was a Repub- lican.
FREDERICK KNIGHT, P. O. Romeo, was born in Surrey County. England, July 31. 1828; he came to America in 1854 and reached New York March 11; he came to Michigan the same year and settled in Washington Township, where he has since been occupied in farming, with the exception of eight years, which he spent in Ray; four years of that time he worked at this trade, that of a mason; he bought forty acres of land on Section 28 in Ray, which he cleared from the stump, together with eighty acres inherited by his wife; he finally settled on his wife's father's farm, on Section 23. in Washington: he still owns his original purchase in Ray, and thirty acres in this township. He was married. December 31, 1854, to Martha Maria, daughter of Henry and Margaret (Clark) Moyers: she was born February 7. 1825. in Rush, Monroe Co., N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Knight have two children -Albert C., born September S. 1560; and Gilbert, February 9. 1864. both born in Ray. Mr. Knight is a Republican. Mr. and Mrs. Moyers were na- tives respectively of Hagerstown. Md., and Harrisburg. Penn .; the former was born June 31. 1753. and died June 7. 1846; the latter was born May 27, 1792, an died December S. 1874. They had nine children, as follows: Anna, deceased: Peter Moyers lived until the age of thirty: he was a graduate of Hudson College (Ohio); founded the Rochester (Oakland County) High School, and was its Principal at the time of his death; he was a man of fine character and abilities, a zealous advocate of temperance, and strong in his anti-slavery principles; John Moyers, deceased, was a farmer in Oxford, Oakland County; owned 730 acres of land; was an educated man, and a teacher some years; he was Super- visor and School Inspector several terms in his township; Henry (see sketch); Adam (see sketch); Maria: Joseph. deceased; George, residing in Memphis, Tenn .. is a claim agent; Gilbert, of Washington. D. C., was graduated from the Law Department of Poughkeep- sie, and is a lawyer and claim agent: he enlisted as Captain in the Third Michigan Cav- alry, and reached the rank of Colonel; two other children were born, who died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Moyers settled on Section 23. this township. June 1. 1825; took up 480
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acres of Government land, and occupied 160 acres of the same until their deaths. Alex ander Clark, Mrs. Moyer's brother, accompanied them to Michigan, and lived with then until his death, in 1868, aged eighty-six years. Mr. Moyers was a man well fitted by natural ability for a pioneer: he understood nearly all mechanical trades, and, when his new brick house replaced the log cabin of his early pioneer life, he did with his own hands all the work but lay the brick, which he made on his own farm. Mrs. Knight's maternal grandsire (Clark) was murdered by the desperado, Morgan, who could not be identified at the time, but, when about to suffer the death penalty for horse-stealing and murder, confessed the killing as the only one of nine he regretted. Mr. Clark started from Presque Isle for the Alleghany Mountains with his wife and two children (Marga- rette and Alexander), leaving two older children with his father; the journey was made on horseback, and Morgan followed them nine days, vainly trying to secure possession of a beautiful mare; he at last decoyed Mr. Clark into a ravine and shot him, and took the mare, which he was riding; the almost distracted wife sent for her husband's father, who came with the other children and helped in the search for his son's body; it was found after a search of forty days, and buried, and the party went on: the wife went back after- ward for the bones. riding 200 miles on horseback; at that day, a superstition existed that if a bone of a murderer's victim was preserved, it would aid in identification, if the mur- derer was in the vicinity, and the collar-bone of Mr. Clark was not buried; when the par- ties had all passed away, the bone was and still is in the possession of Mrs. Knight. A brother of Mrs. Knight's mother ( Margaret Clark) was murdered by his father-in-law in an altercation about property. The parents of Mr. Knight, Reuben and Louisa Knight, . were born in Surrey County, England, respectively in 1782 and 1792; they were married in 1812, and had nine children: the oldest died at the age of three years; following is the list: Reuben. Anne, Esther. Louisa, Frederick, Cyrus, Ellen and Caroline. The parents died in England. Mr. Knight's sister Anne came to America with him, and died here in IS74.
EDWIN LAMB, P. O. Washington, was born April 10, 1825, at Washington, where he received a common-school education. He was married, June 29. 1851, to Caroline Stone: they have tive children -- Eugene H., born March 25, 1852, married Ida M. Davis March 25, 1879, resides at home, and has one child, Leona, born July 4, ISSO; Metta A. was born May 30, 1857; married Isaac Terpenning March 28, 1877: has one child, Leroy, born July 20, 1880; Ida A. was born eptember 6, 1860; completed a full course of study at the State Normal School in 18SI, and is now teaching at Northville, Wayne Co., Mich. ; Elmer E., born January 29, [862; and Aura R., March 22. 1864, and attending the Romeo High School.
OTIS LAMB was born in Greenville, Mass., October 16, 1790; he received a com . mon-school education, and at the age of twenty years removed to Durham, province of Quebec, Canada, where he engaged in tanning and currying. He was there married, Au- gust 3. 1814. to Theodotia Wales, bornin Bennington, Vt., March 26, 1792; at six years of age, she went with her parents to Canada; the wedding ceremony was conducted in the old English style; two years after their marriage, they went to Genesce County, N. Y., where Mr. Lamb purchased a farm; the period was shortly after the war of 1812, when produce was high, and Mr. Lamb expected to pay for his farm in a short time by raising wheat; but prices lowered, and he was obliged to abandon his plans; he worked at tanning until he obtained sufficient money to bring his family to Michigan, where, in 1823, he purchased 160 acres of land in Washington, Macomb County, and settled with his wife and four children in 1824; the place was a wilderness, and they encountered all the pri- vations common to the pioneer of that day; on one occasion, when night fell, the last bit of food was gone, and had absolutely nothing for breakfast; but they had the good fortune
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to capture a raccoon, which supplied their needs until more could be obtained. Mr. Lamb worked at tanning and farming for a number of years. Before the organization. Mr. Lamb was appointed Justice of the Peace, and held the office a number of years; he was the first Postmaster of the town, and was Town Clerk for twenty years; he died February 2. 1SS1. They had eight children, five of whom are living -- Linus, born May 25, 1515. resides at Groveland, Oakland Co., Mich. ; Eliza, July 28, 1817, lives at Linden, Genesee Co., Mich .; Hiram, August 1. 1819, resides at Holly, Oakland County; Emily. December 18, 1820, died in Rose, Oakland County, in 1858; Edwin (see sketch): Dennis, born Oc- tober 14, 1827, lives in Washington; Caroline. April 29, 1830, died November 11: Almeda. March 29, 1833, died October 2, 1553. Mrs. Theodotia Lamb was born March 26, 1792. at Barington, Vt. In rehearsing the pioneer experiences of a county, it is customary to treat the subject in such a way, so to speak, that renders striet justice; in a half sense, the heavier trial rests on the half not considered in too many cases; a man's pioneer routine is outlined; a woman's pioneer history is one of small exigencies, minor details, and seen- ingly insignificant trifles; but a want of forethought, a carelessness of the wants of her husband might be the trifle that lost the king his crown. On Mrs. Lamb devolved the responsibilities usual to the common settler's wife: her husband's time and attention were monopolized by the duties to which he was called by his fellows, and she bore her double burdens with credit to herself and honor to her husband: she lived on the farm where she went in her young married life, for fifty-six years, and lived to see a mansion, with all modern comforts, where she first saw a small log house, and blooming fields in place of the wilderness, and a railroad where was an Indian trail. The improvements of Macomb County are the enduring monuments of its pioneers.
ALONZO D. LEE, P. O. Romeo, was born December 10, 1541. in Euclid. Cuyahoga Co., Ohio: is a son of Rowland H. and Almira Lee; the former was born in Roxbury. Mass .. September 20, 1805; his parents, Elias and Laura Lee, moved to Cuyahoga Connty. Ohio, in ISHI, making the entire journey with an ox team, bringing with them their household goods and nails to use in building; they sold the nails for the first boat for lake service built in the city of Cleveland. Elias Lee bought 1,900 acres of land in Cuya- hoga County, and he and his wife lived and died there: he was a son of Capt. Benjamin Lee, who was a soldier of the French war. Mr. Lee, of this sketch, has in his possession a huge powder-horn, onee the property of his warlike ancestor; it is an heirloom, and has been owned successively by one generation after another: it is of a light yellow color, and is covered with carving and inscriptions, most remarkable of which is the River Hudson, with the city of New York represented as a fort; the British coat of arms, with G. R. surmounting, and the following, proving its identity and genuineness: ·· Captain Benge-
man M. Lee his born Fort Edward --- 31, 1758." The spelling is the same as present- ed. A. D. Lee was married. July 23, 1865. in East Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio. to Viola J., daughter of William and Emily Jersey, of Washington, Macomb Co., Mich. In May. ISGS, Mr. Lee removed his family to Washington; they have six children, born as follows: William H., July 11, 1866; Arthur D., February 26, IS6>: Charles E., January 15. 1872; Emily A .. August 16, 1873; Viola M .. September 5, ISTS: Eney Luella, July 6, ISS1. The two eldest were born in East Cleveland, Ohio: the others, in Washington. Mr. Lee served three years in the rebellion, and was honorably discharged.
C. E. LOCKWOOD, P. O. Washington. About the middle of the eighteenth century, three brothers named Lockwood emigrated to America from Scotland. One of them. Timothy, settled in Greenwich, N. Y., and reared a family of six sons and one daughter Stephen, Henry, Nathaniel, Timothy, Titus, Ebenezer and Abigail. He served during the Revolution, under a Captain's commission; three of his sons were soldiers under hin, and Timothy, aged fourteen, was a drummer boy in the body guard of (ten. Washington.
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Capt. Lockwood died in Dutchess County. N. Y., in 1795. Timothy, fourth son. was born in Dutchess County in 1763; he married Mrs. Esther (Townsend ) Mead, who died in May, 1848: he went to Greene County, N. Y .. and, in February, 181, to Cayuga County. where he died in March. 1812: he was the father of nine children-Jeremialı, Polly, Lydia. Lebbeus, Abigail, Lucinda, Jane, Zebulon and Stephen: the first six were born in Dutchess County: the last three in Greene County; Abigail and Stephen are now living; Jeremiah. eldest son, was born January 21, 1785, and married, January 15, 1808, to Han- nah Arnold; in 1822, they came to Michigan and located on Section 33, in Washington, Macomb County: they reared ten children- Electa, born October 6, 1808, married Daniel Nichols, and died September 12, 1842; Harry. October 8, 1810, died October 12, 1812; Amanda, February 6, 1813, married Zimri Curtis, resides in Addison, Oakland Co., Mich. ; William, November 29, 1814, married Mary Winslow, resides near Saginaw. Mich. : Maria, September 11, 1820, married Calvin Parker, living in Avon, Oakland Co., Mich. ; Rhoda. January 15, 1823. married Chester Andrews, resides in Shelby, Macomb County; Lydia, February 27, 1827, died April 15, 1844; Hiram, July 13, 1829, died in 1866; Cyrenus, Angust 27, 1832, drowned in the Straits of Mackinaw October 22, 1851; Thomas L., Jan- uary . 1. 1839, died Angust 20, 1842: Welburn, May 4, 1841, enlisted in the war of the rebellion, and died at Hospital No. 3, Jackson, Tenn .. January 16, 1863. Mr. Lock- wood's wife died March S. 1835. He was married again, October 7. 1837, to Mrs. Jane
(Littlewood) Tweddell: she died June 6. 1867, leaving two children: he died December 10, 1856, and is buried in the Washington south burial-ground. Timothy. fifth child and third son, was born in Genesee County, N. Y. November 19. 1817: married Mabel, daughter of Peleg Ewell, February 2. 1846 (see sketch of E. P. Ewell). Mr. Lockwood settled on Section 32. Washington, Macomb Co .. Mich., where he resided until the fall of 1878, when he purchased his present residence on Section 33. Mr. and Mrs. Lockwood have had five children, all of whom are living. Following is their record: Murray, born December 7, 1846. married Lucinda Lintz January 26, 1867, and lives in Oakland, Oakland Co., Mich. : Thomas J .. June 1, 1848, married Clara Dairs October 19, 1876, lives near Portland, Ionia Co., Mich .: Flora G., September 6, 1851. married T. C. Miller March 10, 1871. resides on Section 33, Washington: Cyrenus E., born December 14, 1555, married Ida F. Dairs October 2. 1878; resides on the old homestead. Section 32, Wash- ington: Clara I., born August 10. 1859.
JOHN S. MAJOR, P. O. Mt. Vernon, was born February 29, 1841, in Warren County, N. J. : is son of Conrad and Elizabeth Major. He came to Oakland. Oakland Co, Mich .. in 1855, and engaged in farming: in 1869. he bought 110 acres on Section 18, in Wash- ington. Macomb County; besides the management of his farm. he is engaged to consider- able extent in buying cattle, sheep and hogs for the Detroit and Eastern markets. He was married, December 31, 1862, to Lanah V. Cole, of Oakland; she was born October 31, 1842, and is daughter of Christian and Sarah Cole; her parents were born in Warren County, N. J. Mr. and Mrs. Major have four children- Frank R., born June 6, 1864; Sadie E., March 27, 1866: Melvin D .. November 10, 1868: John M., March 3, 1871. Mr. Major is a Democrat. His farm is finely situated, in the near vicinity of the post office and village of Mt. Vernon, in Washington Township.
JAMES MASSIE. P. O. Romeo, was born in December, 1821. in Aberdeenshire, Scotland: is son of Andrew and Elizabeth Massie, natives of the same place. Mr. Massie was married. December 12, 1846, to Christian Tayler, of the parish of St. Fergus, Scot- land: she is a daughter of Nathaniel and Mary Tayler. and was born in October, 1821. Mr. and Mrs. Massie have eight children, born in " Anld Scotia," as follows: William, April 4, 1847: Mary, June 10, 1849; James, August 16, 1852; Alexander, July 29, 1855; Margaret, December 23, 1858: John, July 11, 1860: Robert, April 6. 1862: and Susan,
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April 2, 1865. They have an adopted son, James, born in Scotland April 22, 1869. The family landed at Quebec in June, 1872: they lived in Canada about three years, and then located on a farm on Section 6, in Washington. Mr. Massie has always been a farmer. as was his father before him. Mrs. Massie is a daughter of a farmer, but her forefathers were fishermen.
ADAM C. MOYERS, P. O. Romeo, was born Jannary 7, 1522, in Rush, Monroe Co., N. Y .; was fourth son and fifth child of Henry and Margaret (Clark) Moyers (see sketch of Frederick Knight). He came to Michigan with his parents in 1825, when about four years of age: his father bought 160 acres of land in Washington, where he grew to man- hood and was reared to the calling of a farmer, which he has pursued through life. Mr. Movers purchased ISO acres of valuable land on Section 21 about thirty-two years ago, which is his present homestead. He was married. February 3. 1852, to Elsie, daughter of Elisha and Mary M. Smith, natives of New Jersey: she was born April 3. 1833, in Warren County, N. J .; they have six children, born as follows: Margaret E .. November 1, 1854; Mary M., March 21, 1856; Harriet E., October 26, 1857; Cassins E., October 2, 1860; Judson C., August 3, 1866; Neil O., June 5, 1871. Mr. and Mrs. Moyers belong to the Baptist Church of Mt. Vernon. Mr. Moyers is a Republican in political views.
HENRY MOYERS. P. O. Romeo, was born in Rush, Monroe Co., N. Y .. February 1, 1821; he is the son of Henry and Margaret Clark Moyers (see sketch of Frederick Knight). They came to Michigan in 1825 and settled on Section 23. in Washington, where they purchased a farm of 160 acres. and where they passed the remainder of their lives. Mr. Moyers of this sketch purchased his first landed possessions in Oxford, Oak - land County, including 105 acres of land; he lived on it about six years, and sold out, buying his present homestead, on Section 21, in Washington. where he owns 1-10 acres of first-class land. situated about two miles from the post office of Mt. Vernon and five miles from the village of Romeo; he also owns forty acres in the township of Ray. He was married, March 17, 1834, to Cynthia Shoemaker, of Oxford. Mich. : they had three chil- dren-Eva, born August 10. 1854: Clarissa, May 26. 1857; Margaret M., August 2, 1859, died February 8. 1863. Mrs Moyers died September 15. 1863. Mr. Moyers was married again, March 13. 1872, to Mary L., daughter of Stephen and Hannah M. Warren, born March 21, 1849, in Newport, Mich .; her father was born in New York, and her mother is a native of England. Mr. and Mrs. Moyers have two children -- Ward A .. born October 10. 1877: and Beecher V., August 30. 1879. Mr. Moyers' father was a German orator: his mother was of Irish extraction: the former was born June 3. 1783. died June 1. 1846; the latter was born May 27. 1792, and died June 18. 1874: Alexander Clark, her brother, was born in 1775, and died December 29, 1868.
J. W. NIMS. P. O. Romeo, was born September 28, 1839, in Huntington. Vt .; is the son of Dr Ro row and Sophia Whiton Nims: in 1854, his parents settled in Lexington, Mich .. and. . war after, came to Macomb County and bought 120 acres of land on Sec- tion 1, where his father died February 2. 1869; his mother was born March 15. 1799. in Montagne, Franklin Co., Mass. She was married. May 13, 1824, in Lee. Mass .. and be- came the mother of nine children. seven of whom survive: she is living on the homestead with her son. Mr. Nims, of this sketch, to whom the patrimonial estate descended on his father's death, and which now comprises 145 acres. Mr. Nims has held the position of Supervisor for nine years, and other minor township offices; politically, he is a Republican. Hannibal H. Nims, his brother, served in the war of the rebellion three years; was Captain of Company K, Tenth Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and was killed in the battle at Jones- boro, Ga.
SILAS NYE, P. O. Romeo, son of Jefferson Nye, who was born at Pittsford, N. Y., January 9, 1802, was born June 21, 1832, in Washington Township, Macomb, whither his
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parents came in 1824; the grandfather Nye was named Nathan, a native of Salem, Mass., whose parents are supposed to have come from England; Grandmother Nye was a mem- ber of the Stone family, of Massachusetts, and a soldier of the war of 1812. Jefferson Nye married Hannah Hayden April 23. 1826; this lady was a native of Rush, N. Y., born October 9, 1505, daughter of Silas and Rebecca Hayden, of Connecticut, the former serv- ing nearly six years in the Revolution. They were the parents of seven children, viz. : Alice, born March 3, 1827, now living on the homestead where she was born; Amelia, born August 16, 1828, died October 13, 1845; Norton B., May 14, 1830, living at Fenton- ville, married to Miss Sarah C. Smith, daughter of Jacob Smith, of this county, formerly of New York State; Silas Nye, born June 21, 1832, now residing on the homestead farm; Daniel H., born May 6, 1834, died September 20, 1835; Delora, born September 4, 1837. died October 22, 1844: Viola, born March 27, 1843, died July 30, 1845- all born in Washington Township. Silas Nye was married, February 6, 1866, to Miss Jane Eliza- beth Hopkins born February 19, 1835, daughter of Hiram M. Hopkins, born at Middle- bury, N. Y., in 1803, died February 2, 1842, and of Polly (Price) Hopkins, born October 13, 1810, at Rush, Monroe Co., N. Y., both settling in Macomb about 1824; the parents of Mrs. Polly (Price) Hopkins were Phillip Price, born at Frederick, Md., October 16, 1780; and Anna Maria Sulzer, born at. Frederick about the year 17SI: they came to Michigan in 1824; the former died August 26, 1853, and the latter February 4, 1857. Mr. Nye and wife are the parents of Alvin Jefferson, born June 10, 1868: Hiram, infant son of Silas Nye, born December 7, died December 12, 1871. The children of Hiram and Polly (Price) Hopkins are Charles, born March 9, 1834; Jane E. (Mrs. Silas Nye), born February 19, 1835; Maria, born October 23, 1837; George M., born June IS, 1839-all natives of Washington Township, Macomb County. Mr. Nye owns two farms in Macomb County- one of eighty acres and one of forty aeres-together with 200 acres of wild land in Section 19, Township 2 south, Van Buren County, Mich. ; he devotes his time principally to agri- culture and stock-raising; his nursery is one of the best-selected and kept in Michigan; flowers, shrubs and trees are cultivated with great care, and meet with ready sale through- out Macomb, Oakland and counties adjacent; he never sought for public office. The mem- bers of the family are represented in the Methodist Episcopal, Congregational, Baptist and Universalist societies of Shelby and Washington: the Hopkins family belong principally to the Methodist Episcopal Church, and both the Nye and Hopkins family are stanch sup- porters of the Republican party.
ADDISON G. PRATT, P. O. Davis, farmer, Section 35, Washington Township, was born August 14, 1843, in Clinton, Macomb Co., Mich .; is son of Luther and Sarah Pratt, the former a native of Vermont and the latter born in the Province of Ontario, Canada; they settled in the township of Clinton in an early period of the history of the county. Mr. Pratt, of this sketch, was married, August 4, 1867, to Melissa, daughter of Samuel D. and Mercy (Briggs) Shattuck, of Chesterfield, Macomb County; she was born July 11. 1845, in that township; her father was born in Hampshire County, Mass., February 15; ISII; her mother was born in Middlesex, Ontario Co., N. Y., July 22, ISI3; the former died June 23, 1851, in Chesterfield. Mr. and Mrs. Pratt have one child, Pearl L., born in Lenox March 29, 1875. Mr. Pratt is a member of Macomb Lodge of Brooklyn, No. 64. F. & A. M .: he adheres to the principles of the Democratic party.
LUTHER PROCTER. P. (. Romeo, was born in Armada, Macomb Co., Mich., May 10, 1830; is son of John and Sarah Freeman Proctor; the former was a native of Alstead. N. H., born July IS, 1799: the latter was born in Berkshire, Vt., April 13, 1805: his par- ents came to Michigan and bought 120 aeres on Section 31, in Armada, where they settled October 11. 1824; the father died August 3, 1860; the mother, December 23, 1862. Mr. Procter has been a farmer all his life, with the exception of seven years, when he operated
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