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Mrs. Green Freeman was born in Meriden, Conn., September 15, 1816, and was nearly sixty-three years of age at the time of her death, which occurred last Saturday morning. January, 11, 1879. She was married July 7, 1842, moving immediately West, locating at Mt. Clemens, Macomb Co., Mich .: moved to Pontiac in 1865. She leaves a husband and six children to mourn her loss. Her death was very sudden and unexpected.
Orrin Southwell, an old resident of Romeo, died at Wenona, Ill., February 21, 1879. Mrs. L. D. Owen died at Romeo from heart disease April 8, 1879.
Joshua B. Dickenson, Mayor of Mt. Clemens, died in May, 1879.
Varnum Lufkin, of Mt. Clemens, died January 9, 1880, aged seventy years.
Mrs. Nancy Palmerlee, born at Goshen, Litchfield Co., Conn., August 4, 1786; died in Bruce Township December 30, 1879, in her ninety-fourth year. She settled there in 1832. Orsel Dudley, born in New York State March 24, 1800, died near Romeo January 18, 1880.
Mrs. Ezekiel Allen died at Mt. Clemens January 25, 1880, aged eighty years. She located there in 1821.
Mrs. Mary Crocker, mother of T. M. Crocker, of MIt. Clemens, died in May, 1880, at New Baltimore,
M. A. Holcomb, a former resident of Romeo, died at Oxford November 2, 1880.
Hiram Bancroft died November 7, 1880, aged fifty-eight years.
Mrs. Anna Cooley, relict of the deceased Noah Cooley, died at the old homestead November 16, 1880, aged seventy-six years. Her husband died in 1877.
Joseph B. Hart died November 10, 1880, aged about sixty years. He was a resident of Romeo for over forty-eight years.
Joseph Yates, of Washington Township, died November 17, 1800. aged seventy years. Mrs. Anne Lockwood died November 21, 1880. For a period of forty-four years, she had been a resident of Mt. Vernon, this county.
Mrs. Uriah Haines died suddenly at the house of Samuel Bently, in Bruce Town- ship. December 10, 1880.
Mrs. Cornelius Everett, of Bruce, sister of Amos and Lucius Palmerlee, died Decem- ber 11, 1880.
Rev. W. P. Russell, born August 4, 1812, at Milton, Saratoga Co., N. Y., settled at Memphis, Macomb County, in 1848, where he remained, with the exception of one year, until his death, May 11, 1880.
Col. Norman Perry, born in Northumberland Township, Saratoga Co., N. Y., April 20, 1796; died July 19, 1880.
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Dr. James P. Whitney, one of the early physicians of Northern Macomb, died in California November 25, 1880.
Benjamin Cooley, of Bruce, died on the 7th of January. 1881. He was born in Ver- mont August 7. 1811: moved to Michigan in 1832: cleared up a large farm, and died on the farm which he located nearly half a century ago.
James Brooks, an aged citizen of Romeo, died in January, 1881.
Hugh Hosner, an old settler of Macomb, died January 29. 1851. aged sixty-eight years. He was born in New York November 4, 1808.
Mrs. Theodosia Lamb died February 2, 1881, aged eighty-nine years. She was born at Bennington, Vt .. March 26, 1792. She came with her husband, Otis Lamb, to Mich- igan, in 1824. Her husband died in 1856.
Mrs. Laura Lowell, an old resident of Northern Macomb, died at Adrian February 9, 1881. aged seventy-two years.
The oldest citizen of Macomb County. Jacques Thibault, died at his home, in Har. rison Township, March 6, 1881, aged one hundred and five years.
J.G. Stranahan, an old resident, died March 16, 1881. aged seventy-one years.
James Sharpstein. an aged citizen of Bruce, died March 13, 1881, in his seventy-first year.
Asa Austin, a survivor of the Mexican war, aged seventy years, died at Romeo March 23, 1881.
Mrs. Lucinda Overton. agel sixty-seven years, died in Richmond Township March 11. 1881.
David Anderson, of Bruce, died March 9, 1881, aged seventy-two years.
Samuel Waycott, an old settler of Macomb County, died April 3, 1881.
Mrs. Stephen Bailey died April 16, 1881, in Romeo.
Mrs. Helen Harvey died at Utica, Mich., in April, 1881.
Mrs. Bailey, widow of the late Asahel Bailey, and one of the first white women in Romeo, died at her residence July 4, 1SS1. in her eighty-third year. She was the mother of a number of children, the most of not all of them reside in this place.
Mrs. John Varney died July 23, 1881, aged fifty years.
J. Jackson Crissman, an old resident of Washington Township, died August 5, ISS1. aged sixty-two years.
Mrs. C. P. Glaspie, daughter of Joseph Atkinson, of Romeo, died in August, 1881, at Detroit.
Mrs. Levi F. Giddings, daughter of P. M. Bentley, died in Shelby Township. Sep- tember, 18SI, aged thirty-five. She was born in Ontario County, N. Y., and came to Ma- comb County with her parents in 1846.
Mrs. Sarah E. Taylor, wife of Hiram Taylor, born in Rutland Co., Vt., August 23, 1836, died in Armada, Mich., September 24, 1881, in her forty-sixth year.
Ezra Nye died October 9, 1881, aged forty-five years.
Mrs. Leah Kiel was born in 1823; died October 1, 1881.
Mrs. Le Roy died in East Saginaw October 12, 1881.
Mrs. Susan Mahaffy, born in Tyrone, Ireland, November 11, 1807. married Hugh Mahaffy, and with him came to Michigan forty-nine years ago: died October 29, 1SS1.
John Boughton, an old settler of Macomb Township, died November 4, 1881.
Michael R. Sutton died November 12, 1881, in his eighty-fourth year.
Hugh Harper, an aged citizen of Romeo, died suddenly November 28, 1881, aged sixty-five years.
Mrs. Nancy S. Axtell. died December 4, 1881. She was born at Mendham, Morris Co., N. J., December 23. 1792. Her husband died in 1855.
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Frank Tremble, or Trombley, of Erin Township, died April 25, 1SS1, aged seventy- one years. He was one of the old residents of Macomb County, and a prominent member of the Catholic Church.
John Stephens, who died in Detriot October 31, ISSI, was a gentleman well known to the older resi ents of Macomb County. He came to Mt. Clemens in 1838, and, in com- pany with his brother, Moore Stephens, went into general merchandise. They made a large fortune. In 1852, Mr. Stephens went to Detroit and engaged in the wholesale gro- cery business.
Mrs. J. C. High, mother of William and John High, died November 24, 1881, in her eighty-sixth year. Mrs. High was an old resident of this eity, and a most estimable la ly. She was for many years a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Jacob Allmond died in Erin October 17, 1881, in his seventy-first year. Mr. Allmond was born in France, and came to this city in 1856, settling in the township where he died. He was a well-known and highly esteemed citizen, to which fact a funeral proces- sion nearly a mile long attested.
William Gass, one of the earliest settlers in this vicinity. died on December 31, 1881. at his home in the town of Ray.
Hugh Gray died January 1. 1SS2. He was born in Ayreshire, Scotland, December 31, 1806. He came to this country with his parents in 1832. He was brought up a farm- er in his native county, and he located a farm near Romeo upon his arrival. With his brother. Neil Gray, he, for a number of years successfully operated a flouring-mill at Clif- ton a few miles southwest of Romeo. Subsequently, he removed to the latter place. where, as we have said, he interested himself actively in good works. Next to the church, the temperance cause interested him, and, during the last thirty years, he has been a promi- nent member of the Sons of Temperance Society. In 1837, he married Emma A. Burr, formerly of Connecticut, who still survives.
Mrs. Orpha Adams, wife of A. B. Adams, of Utica, departed this life February 15, 1852, aged seventy-six years. The funeral was held at the Methodist Church on Sun- day morning at 10:30. Mrs. Adams was one of the oldest and most respected citizens.
Elias Hall, who lived one and a half miles east of Washington, died in 1882. aged eighty-three years. Deceased came to Macomb County in 1832, and lived on the same farm ever since.
Anson Grinnell died February 5, 1882. He was born in New York State January 21. 1807, moved to Michigan in 1827 and was a resident of Davis for fifty-five years. Mr. Wright, another old settler, died the same month.
Catherine Dickenson, daughter of Joshua B. Dickenson, first Mayor of Mt. Clemens, and wife of George M. Crocker, died February 7, 1882. She was born at Mt. Clemens in 1848.
David Casey, an old resident of Romeo, died June 12, 1882, aged fifty-seven years. Hannah Book, a mute, residing at Clifton, near Romeo, set her house on fire and offered herself a vietim to the flames, May 29. 1882.
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CHAPTER XXVIII.
CHRONOLOGY.
It is essential that the principal happenings should be fully and impartially recorded, and a mention made of every event possessing even the least historical merit. The writer finds it just possible to obtain such data as would enable him to deal specially with the great chapters of this record book- with the most important items in the history of this county. Notwithstanding all diligence in inquiry, all the valuable co-operation rendered by the survivors of early settlement, as well as of the citizens of the present time, many facts would escape notice, had not the chronological table been prepared for their recep- tion. To render this valuable, an effort has been made to notice the happenings of our own time, and mention the principal events of early years. The data given may be ac- cepted as correct in every particular; for a great portion of it has been abridged from written records, while all that is legendary and circumstantial point directly to the occur- rences and men concerned.
The histories of the city, villages and townships of the county, together with the pioneer chapter of the general history, contain a great deal of items which would offer a full chronological table from the organization of the county to 1866, when the present re- view may be said to begin. Yet, to avoid repetition, such items are allowed to appear in that section of the work devoted to the locality where they belong.
The massacre of the Sauks by the Otchipwes took place in 1520. Rev. Brebœuf and Daniels visited the district in 1634 38. The great snow fell in 1755. Allouez and Du- vall, or Dablon, came in 1665. The Griffin anchored at the mouth of the river in 1674.
Louis Patenaude located here in 1751, and built a log cabin in 1758. The Otchipwes marched to the aid of Pontiac in 1762. Many of the Indians left the valley of the Huron, or Clinton, to assist La Balme in his enterprise against the British post at Detroit, in 1780. The Moravians arrived at New Gnadtenhutten in 1781. Numerous settlements were made in the county from 1781 to 1795.
The first marriage in the county among the American pioneers was that of Richard Conner and Mary Myers in 1781.
The first white child born in the district now known as Macomb County was the daughter of Richard Connor, or O'Connor, and Mary Myers. the captive of the Otchipwes. This child grew up and was one of the contracting parties in one of the first matrimonial affairs among the American pioneers.
The first tree-planting in Macomb County was upon the banks of the Clinton (then Huron) River, in the vicinity of Mt. Clemens, one hundred years ago. This orchard was probably planted by the Moravians, who had moved from the Muskingum, in Ohio. These first trees, some of which are still standing, show marks of great age, are of very large size and of a kind of fruit with which the orchardists of the present day are not acquaint- ed. At this time, a family by the name of Tucker settled on the Huron River and un- doubtedly planted fruit-trees,
Richard Connor, the first English speaking settler in Macomb County, located here in 1781.
William Tucker made a permanent location in the county so early as 1784, when he brought his family from Detroit hither.
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The first house of worship was the Catholic Church, erected a short time previous to 1795, on the south bank of the Huron, four miles distant from Mt. Clemens.
The first Baptist house of worship was built in 1843. Two years previously, the Presbyterians erected their church at Mt. Clemens.
François Tremble left the mouth of the Huron for the north, was stabbed by the Sag- inaws, and, in an effort to return to his home, was lost in Lake Huron, 1792.
Onahouse, a fierce Otchipwe, was made captive near Mt. Clemens in 1806, taken to Detroit, convicted of many murders, and hanged.
Louis Campeau and Jacob Smith passed some months in this county in 1811, trading with the Indians.
The Boyer family, made captive near Mt. Clemens during the war of 1812, were res- cued by Jacob Smith from their brutal jailors at the great camp of Saginaw.
The village of Mt. Clemens was named by Gen. Macomb long before its incorpora- tion, in honor of the pioneer. Christian Clemens.
Macomb County was named at the suggestion of Christian Clemens in 18IS, in recog- nition of Gen. Macomb's services to Michigan and the Union.
The first frame structure in the county was raised in 1817 for John Stockton. It was an addition to the log house in which Judge Clemens dwelt, the attachment to his house being accounted for by the conciliating fact that immediately prior to its building Col. Stockton married Mlle. Allen, the Judge's step-daughter.
The squatters on the lands in Macomb County were summoned to Detroit in 1808-10 to prove their occupancy of claims previous to 1796.
Macomb County was organized in 1818.
The Black Day rose over the county November 8, 1819.
Kiskako, of Saginaw, the terror of Macomb, committed suicide at Detroit in IS25.
In 1830, the Indians of the Clinton River entered on a Western movement.
In 1837, an Indian of the Riley band, was killed by a falling tree. After months of searching, the body of the savage was found.
In 1837-38, small-pox decimated the lodges of the Indians.
In 1836, the Bank of Macomb received a charter from the Legislature. Under the law of 1837, the State Banking law was passed, when Representative Monfore, of Macomb, was one of the four members who opposed the dangerous law.
A bill of complaint was filed for violation of law against the Huron River Bank. praying for injunction and appointment of Receiver. The prayer was granted by the Commissioners.
Digby V. Bell, writing December 30. 1839, states: "The Macomb County Bank, it is said, has not closed its doors, and the amount of its circulation is very limited and trifling, which they redeem on presentation."
Of the 1.060 muskets received by the military authorities of the Territory of Michi- gan, from Lieut. J. Howard, of the United States Army, in May and June, 1832. only 450 stand could be found in 1839, of which number fifty were in the armory or distributed among the people of Mt. Clemens
The aboriginal inhabitants of Macomb left their land forever in 1838.
Anthony Wells, of Memphis, a pioneer, was killed by his horse in 1841.
The Methodist Episcopal Society erected a church at Mt. Clemens in 1841.
Mrs. Hoag was killed about the year 1850 by the splinters of a boiler which exploded in the Hoag saw-mill.
Rev. Mr. Case, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of Detroit, was the first minister of the Protestant denomination who visited Macomb County, coming into the Tucker set- tlement in 1807.
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The First German Evangelical Church building was constructed in 1860.
The Macomb Democrat was first issued at Mt. Clemens November 5, 1835.
Abraham Donaldson was crushed to death by a falling tree, April, 1838.
Harry Day, a son of Erastus Day. aged about three years. was drowned in a well May 27, 1844.
The first copy of the Romeo Argus was issued May 10. 1857. Among the first cor- respondents was J. E. Day, of Armada, who says: " After an interval of six years' press- less silence, we are rejoiced with the prospect that the village of Romeo will soon be her- alded by a weekly journal."
In July, 1863, Col. Farrar, of Mt. Clemens, was in command of a division of the troops ordered out to suppress the anti-draft riots in New York.
The tournament and celebration at MIt. Clemens, July 3 and 4, 1865, was participated in by over 5,000 people.
A meteor passed over the county November 1, 1857. The visiting comet was seen June 30, 1861.
The trains ran over the Grand Trunk Railroad, through Macomb County, in 1859.
The Mt. Clemens Press was established under the name Macomb Conserratire Press in the year 1864. Spencer B. Russell assumed control of the journal May 1, 1873, and has published it since that time. Lewis M. Miller inaugurated the Mt. Clemens Reporter in 1873. The Investigator was first published at Romeo in December, 1850. The first number of the Romeo Obserrer was issued May 3, 1866, J. Russell, editor and publisher.
An old lady living within four miles of Romeo settled in the county at a very early day. yet visited Indian Village only once in thirty years, this visit being paid in the year 1844.
Charles Bentley, son of Samuel Bentley, aged fourteen years, left home April 8, 1866, and was not heard of for some time.
The citizens of Utica held a meeting June 2, 1866, for the purpose of maturing plans for the construction of a railroad from Detroit to their village.
The German Lutheran Church, of Waldenburg, was dedicated June 24. 1866.
The storm of June 14, 1866, resulted in the loss of 500 sheep in the northern towns of Macomb, together with the numerous losses to persons and property.
A son of Mr. Geno, residing four miles southeast of Brooklyn, was accidentally shot by a boy named Ellis July 5. 1866.
In July, 1866, Col. William Wilkinson received from the military department his commission as Brevet Colonel United States Volunteers, for distinguished services during the war.
Freedom Monroe, of Romeo, patented a land-leveler, invented by him, April 17, 1866. The squirrel hunting match between Washington and Ray came off September 2, 1866. The whole number of squirrels killed was 1,680. Ray claimed 180 squirrels over their antagonists.
The Bottomley hoop-skirt factory was inaugurated at Romeo in September, 1866.
Pearsall's stage, running between Ridgeway and Romeo, was upset September 10. 1866, and each of the nine passengers injured.
A barn owned by the Widow Pierce, of Washington Township, was destroyod by fire September 11, 1866. The day previous. the dwelling-house of Richard Jersey, two miles east of Romeo, was partially destroyed by fire.
The Boys in Blue signed a declaration of nnswerving fidelity to the Union, and reiter- ated their credo, " no rebel bread and butter in our haversacks," September 15. 1866.
The great address to the followers of the Republican party of Macomb was issued in September, 1866, signed by Edgar Weeks, Irving D. Hanscom and T. M. Wilson.
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The Washington and Ray Wolverine Sporting Club met September 22, 1866, when 4,265 squirrels were killed, of which number the Washingtonians killed 2.149, and the boys of Ray, 2, 116.
The Soldiers' Convention was held at Brooklyn in October. 1866.
The Johnsonian policy of reconstruction created some excitement throughout Macomb County in September and October. 1866.
George Cameron and Barton Bromley broko jail at Mt. Clemens November 5, 1866.
Charles G. Tinsman, of Washington Township, husked 122 bushels of com in the ear out of the shock within ten hours, in November, 1866.
In November. 1866, Col. William Wilkinson entered a suit for $10,000 damages against fra S. Pearsall, on account of injuries received while traveling in a stage coach owned by the defendant. The plaintiff employed A. B. Maynard and E. F. Mead as at- torneys.
A child of William H. Brabb was rescued from a terrible death by burning, owing to the timely arrival of his mother, November 18, 1866.
The stage-drivers between Romeo and Almont and Romeo and Ridgeway, in 1866. were called drunkards.
William McBride attempted suicide within the State prison December 9, 1866.
The annual meeting of the Macomb County Agricultural Society was held at the house of Stephen H. Davis, at Brooklyn. December 13, 1866.
Dwight R. Andrus, son of Loren Andrus, of Washington Township, was accidentally shot at Central City, Colo., in November, 1866. The wounds were not fatal.
The poisoning of the Culver family at Ripon, Wis., was recorded December 25, 1866. The Culvers were formerly citizens of Washington Township.
Daniel B. Briggs, of Romeo, was appointed Clerk to the House Judiciary Committee, in January, 1867.
The Young Men's Association of Romeo was organized January 16, 1867.
George W. Powell, a youth of nineteen years, hanged himself February 13. 1867.
Degree Temple, Independent Order of Good Templars, was organized at Romeo March 2, 1867.
A man named Armstrong, employed by Ignace Morass, attempted to cut his throat February 24. 1867, which act his employer prevented. Two days later, however, he suc- ceeded in drowning himself.
Henry Seals was driving a, team. loaded with hay, past the Rice farm, February 25. 1867. when the wagon glided from the slippery highway into the diteh. overturning the load and burying his wife and infant child, who were seated on the hay, beneath it. The infant was drowned. while the mother barely escaped a similar death.
Major Henry Howgate, who succeeded Capt. William Hulsart as Postmaster at Ro- meo. was superseded by Col. William Wilkinson. in March, 1867.
A horse thirty-two years old was shot by the owner, Nathan Rowley, of Armada, in March. 1867.
An infant child of Charles Howland received a feed of blue vitriol from its little sister, and died March 16. 1867.
The $10,000 action for damages entered by Col. Wilkinson versus Ira Pearsall was settled amicably in April, 1867, by a payment of $1,000 and a free pass over the stage line for life by the latter.
F. Pole, a stranger in Macomb County, was drowned in Cusiek Lake, April 29, 1867. A lodge of Good Templars was organized at Washington Village April 30. 1867. The Good Templars' Convention was held at Armada, May 14 and 15. 1867.
A German named Hartwig was accidentally killed at Clifton May 2, 1867.
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A son of Thomas Oliver fell into the Clinton River at Mt. Clemens, May 23, 1867, and was drowned.
A man named Carley shot an adversary named McCall near Memphis, May 21, 1867. Death was instantaneous.
A Good Templars Lodge was formed in Macomb Township, May 23, 1867.
The Robinson tract, near Mt. Clemens, was soll September 20, 1867, the lands bring- ing from $50 to $125 per acre.
James Benjamin, an old resident of Romeo, was killed at Dryden, Lapeer County, September 12, 1867, by a fall from a church steeple to the roof of the building.
The barn of Sanford Corbin, the house of B. B. Redfield and that of J. J. Bentley were all damaged by lightning during the storm of October 2, 1867.
The county poor house was destroyed by fire October 22, 1867. The Phelps House, one of the oldest buildings at Mt. Clemens, was totally destroyed December 11, 1867. It was built by Alfred Ashley in 1522, as a hotel, for which purpose it was used up to the date of its destruction.
James Weightman, a soldier in the war for the Union, and a printer at Romeo, died February 13, 1868.
Freedom Monroe offered to the Grand Trunk Railroad, of Michigan, March, 1868, the model of his patent bridge, provided such company would adopt this system of bridge- building on the new railroad.
William MeRoy committed suicide by hanging himself, April 30, 1868.
Mrs. Robert Ramsey, living near Richmond, was found drowned in Belle River, May 9. 1868.
The Grand Army of the Republic was organized at Romeo, May 9, 1868. with Col. Wilkinson, Commander.
William Manchester, of Richmond. a boy nine years old, was killed May 17, 1868, by a falling tree.
The Romeo brass band was organized July 16, 1868.
The fifth annual meeting of the Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company, of Ma- comb and St. Clair, was held at Richmond June 9, 1868.
A fire at Armada, July 28, 1868, destroyed the E. F. Sibley building. William B. Sutton committed suicide at Brooklyn August 22. 1868.
A large brick building being erected for Dr. J. S. Smith and Capt. Hiram Barrows fell in September 19, 1868. Dr. Smith was killed and Marion Grout injured.
The first charter election of Armada Village took place January 14, 1868.
Albert Weightman, son of William Weightman, of Romeo, was drowned in Cusick Lake, November 13, 1868.
Charles Phillips shot one of his employes, named Robert Wirtz, in December, 1568. The wound was slight.
A street preacher by the name of Clemens was arrested in Toledo in January, 1869. The following is the charge against him: " One Alfred C. Clemens did unlawfully make a great noise, outery and elamor, to the annoyance and disturbance of divers good and peaceable citizens." He is the same gentleman who harangued the people of Macomb in 1868 upon his peculiar religious views. He is a nephew of the late Judge Clemens, founder of Mt. Clemens, and quite wealthy. Aside from a slight derangement on the subject of religion, he is a gentleman and a scholar.
Nearly 7,000 cords of hard wood were shipped from Mt. Clemens to Detroit during the season of 1868 by the following parties: William Hines, 1,000 cords; O. Chapaton, 3,500 cords: . Hubbard and Traver & Van Eps, 750 cords; C. Barley, 1,200 cords; other parties, 500 cords. Also about 400,000 feet of hard wood lumber.
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