History of Shiawassee and Clinton counties, Michigan, Part 117

Author: Ellis, Franklin, 1828-1885
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Philadelphia, D.W. Ensign & co.
Number of Pages: 716

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John Reed and his sou Nathan (now in Lansing) were among the early settlers on section 36. John Reed built the first frame barn in the township. Nathan Case was a pioneer on section 34, and is still living, though very old and infirm. Benjamin F. Nichols, with his wife and child, from Farmington, Oakland Co., moved in and settled on section 6 about 1843. He bought one hundred and twenty aeres, stayed a short time, and moved back to Oakland County.

Constant Shaw and wife moved from Novi, Oakland Co., in 1843. Hle settled on the northwest quarter of section 35. Ilis first work was to chop and clear about ten acres of his land. He erected a log house which stood till 1879, when it was taken down to make room for the main part of a new frame dwelling. Mr. Shaw died in 1855, Mrs. Shaw in 1879. The homestead is now occupied by their daughter, Mrs. Jerome Cardinal.

The following names show who were resident tax-payers in 1841, giving the sections in their order and the number of acres owned by each person :

Acres.

Parley Gardner, section 3

Robert B. Gardner, section 3

Morris Boughton, section 7. 160

Charles Kellogg. section 14 160

Atwell Simmons, seetions 25-30. 140

Henry Williams, section 27. 160

Lloyd Worth, sections 27, 28 240

Gordon Treat, section 28 80

Francis Francisco, sections 33, 31 60

Gabriel fronkhite, section 34. 40

.T. J. Cronkhite, section 34 40

Nathan Case, section 34 GO

S. W. Cronkhite, section 34 St

Charles M. Thornton, scetions 34, 35. 240

Robert MeFall, section 35 74

Elison Calophell, section 35. 10

Nathan Reed, section 36 160

The assessment-roll for 1844 will show the changes in the township in three years :

Acres.

William Davis, section 3 .. SO

Benjamin F. Nichols, section 6. 120

Archibald Riley, section 6

Morris Boughton, section 7 160

Philip, P. Peek, section & 120

Elkanah Peck, Jr., section 8 80

Elkanah Peck, section 8

James II. Chant, section 14. Su

Joseph Cook, section 25. 81)

George Cook, section 25. 50

Atwell Simmons, sections 25, 30 179

Thomas Ferris, section 27.

James J. Foreman, section 27.

Daniel C. Smith, sections 27, 28 210

Gordon Treat, section 28

80 Ephraim ff. Phillips, section 33

Francis Francisco, sections 33, 31.

Nathan If. Cose, section 34

Nathan E. Jones, section 31 160

Ezra Thornton, sections 31, 35.

190

William Burrett, sections 34, 35.

280

Lyman flungerford, section 34

Elison l'ampbell, section 35.

Constant Shaw, seetion 35. 160

John Reed, section 36.

John M. Apthorp. 80

Charles Reed

Joseph Cook, born in Vermont in 1790, emigrated to Avon Springs, N. Y., and from that place to Riley in the

fall of 1842, accompanied by his wife and seven children ; one son, George II., was married. They all settled on see- tion 25, on one hundred and thirty acres. Mr. Cook was on land now owned by P. R. Freeman ; George II., on land now owned by his brother, A. B. Cook. George II. moved back to the State of New York after living here three or four years. Mr. Cook and his son George were the first shoemakers in the town. Joseph W., a son, died unmar- ried ; he held the office of justice for several years. Char- lotte (Mrs. Newman) is not living. Abigail (Mrs. P. R. Freeman) is living on a part of the homestead. Amariah B. married Amina Simmons. Sally died young. William II. H. was in Third Michigan Cavalry, and died at New Madrid, Mo. A. B. Cook's children are Emeline S. (Mrs. Dills), living at home; Viola (Mrs. Pike), living on seetion 30; Ida O., living at home.

Lyman Hungerford, a native of Oneida Co., N. Y., with his wife and daughter emigrated to Riley in September, 1843, and settled on section 34, having bought the north- east quarter in July, 1836. He built a log house in the usual baekwoods style. Mrs. Ilungerford died in 1863. Of three children one is living, a son, William W .; lives on section 27, across the road from the old homestead (now owned by Augustus Robinson). He married Miss Ann Tracy, and they have two sons and one daughter. Mr. Lyman Ilungerford has been honored by his fellow-towns -. men by having been elected supervisor thirteen times, and has also held other offees in the town.

Nathan E. Jones and family, from Novi, Oakland Co., arrived at the site of their future home, on section 34, in the year 1843. He bought his land of Leland Green, who took it from government in July, 1836. The children who eame in with their parents are Henry J., living at Dimon- dale, Eaton Co. ; Nathan E., Jr., lives on a portion of the homestead ; Naney (Mrs. Peck), lives near Boughton school-house; Andrew J., lives in Watertown; William J., lives in Watertown; Albert, lives in the centre of this town ; Frank, lives in Watertown.

Ilenry Jones and wife moved from Novi to Danby, Ionia Co., where they lived nearly three years, and then moved to Riley in January, 1848, having bought land of Daniel C. Smith, who had made a small elearing and erected a log house ; they lived in this till he built the present frame resi- dence in 1862. The children are Adolphus, married and lives on the homestead, and is the present postmaster of South Riley ; Ella (Mrs. William Burritt), lives about a mile southwest ; Catharine M. (Mrs. Fields), died in 1874.

Ephraim HI. Phillips was an early settler on seetion 33. Ile came from Plymouth, Wayne Co., a single man, eleared some of his land, built a log house, and went back and married. lle died on his place. His widow married Wil- liam Burritt. A son, Alonzo Burritt, lives on the farm.

William Burritt was an carly settler on seetions 34 and 35, owning two hundred and eighty acres.

Among the later settlers were Jacob Miller, wife, and family, from Wayne Co., Ohio. in 1852. He bought his land of Jacob Carlisle and Samuel Hungerford, paying for the southeast quarter of seetion 27, bought of Hungerford, six hundred dollars. The log house was built by Carlisle,

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who was the first carpenter to locate in the town. In 1862, Mr. Miller erected his present substantial dwelling. Ben- jamin F., a son, lives on the rise of ground just east of his father, in a neat and tasty farm-honse. William, another son, lives in Watertown ; Septimus M. lives on a farm ad- joining on the north ; James lives in Matherton, Ionia Co. ; Lucinda (Mrs. Cardinal) lives about half a mile north.

David P. Wilcox came to Michigan from Haddam, Mid- dlesex Co., Conn., and located a farm in Homer, Calhoun Co .; then went back for his family and brought them out to reside in their new home. Here they lived till March, 1854, when poor health obliged him to sell his farm and seek another location. Thinking that the climate of Kan- sas might benefit him, he went there. It did not suit ; then Iowa was tried. While there he purchased five hundred acres of land. Becoming convinced that there is no better State than Michigan, he came back with the intention of locating in the Grand River country. In June, 1854, he was exploring the lands in Riley, and finding the school see- tion to his mind, purchased one hundred and sixty aeres, for which he paid four dollars per acre. In July he moved in with his family, and had to chop out and underbrush the road from the corner near the cheese-factory south to the place where he built his log house, which stood on the farm where his daughter Aurelia (Mrs. Chapman) lives. Another daughter (Mrs. Robinson) lives on section 34, on a farm bought of L. Hungerford, on which is built the first and only brick dwelling-house in the township. In 1864, Mr. Wilcox removed to St. Johns and engaged in the hardware business. After remaining there eight years he went back to farm-life, having built a handsome resi- dence on section 17. 1Ie built this spring (1880) one of the finest barns in the town. He has been engaged about twenty years in raising the short-horn breed of cattle, and has one of the best herds in the county.

The question of whose was the first marriage in the town- ship being differently answered by many of the old pioneers now residing in the township, it was referred to Mrs. Jo- siah E. Smith, who gave the following reply : " My first recollection of a wedding in Riley township is that of Char- lotte Cook and Moses Newman, also of Nancy Reed and Willard Brooks, and the ceremony was performed by my first husband, Gordon Treat, then a justice of the peace."

The first birth in the township was that of Stephen Thornton, son of Charles M. and Harriet Thornton.

The first death was that of a child of Lloyd Worth. The first burial-ground in South Riley was that on section 35, on land given by William Yerkes and deeded to four trustees about 1845. The first burial was that of a man named Ingalls.

The North Riley cemetery was taken in hand by an as- sociation organized Feb. 28, 1867, and reorganized April 2, 1879, with the following officers : President, Cortland Hill ; Clerk, S. N. Hildreth ; Treasurer, C. N. Plowman ; Sexton, F. W. Benjamin.

The first person buried in this cemetery was Mrs. ITan- nah Peck, whose remains were brought here in 1847. They were first buried in a farin-lot.

Riley was originally covered with a dense forest, consist- ing mainly of ash, basswood, beech, elm, cherry, oak, maple, and walnut. The woods are leveled now, and thin screens of trees but veil the fields beyond. To-day, aside from speedy transit and neighbors near, the work of chop- ping and clearing is continued, and the northern portion of this State has territory in its natural condition. The work of clearing lands was plain, hard work. The choicest oak, walnut, and cherry were cut in logging lengths and burned on the ground. Ox-teams were everywhere used. It was common for a farmer who had no yoke of cattle of his own to go and help his neighbors get the log-heaps in place for burning, and when ready, they would come and give him a log-rolling. Often the settler, having spent the day at a logging-bee, has passed the night in kindling up and keep- ing his log-heaps burning. In those spring days the woods were often dark with smoke, and lurid fires by night gave to the scene a weird aspect. If the season, far advanced, did not admit full clearing, the various erops of corn, pumpkins, turnips, and potatoes were planted irregularly amidst the blackened logs. There was no hoeing needed, but it was necessary to go through and pull up or cut down the fire-weed, which sprang up. numerous and rank on newly-cleared ground. It was soon exterminated with a few successive crops. By some, wheat and rye were sown after corn, but generally a special piece was cleared, sowed, and harrowed in. Farming was in a crude state, and hoes and drags were the implements for putting in the crop. The drag was made by the settler himself.

The first consideration of the pioneer was a shelter for himself and family. The house was built somewhat in this wise. Its walls were of logs notched together at the corners, and the openings between chinked and plastered with clay or mud; its floors of puncheons or split logs, with the flat side up; roof made of bark, hollow logs, or shakes; the partitions were formed by blankets hung up; the door was hung on wooden hinges, and fastened with a wooden latch opened from the outside with a cord or string, and the " latch-string was always out;" its windows were often of white paper to let in light, and well greased to shed the rain and make it nearer transparent. The fireplace reached nearly across one end ; its back, sides, and hearth were, in the absence of' stones, made of clay or mud plastered about one foot thick, and baked hard by the fire; two sticks of the proper crook rested one on either end of the wall and against a beam overhead, forming the jambs, and upou these rested the chimney, made of sticks and clay mortar, very wide at the bottom and tapering to the top, serving the purpose of both chimney and smoke house. When a fire was to be built in winter a log six or eight feet long and two or three feet in diameter was brought in and rolled on the fireplace, this was called the back-log; next came a smaller log, which was placed on the top and called the back- stick ; then came two round sticks six or eight inches in diameter and three feet long, the greenest that could be found; these were placed endwise against the back-log, and served for andirons ; upon them was placed the fore- stick, and between this and the back-log were piled dry limbs and wood, and the fire applied. The fire thus built would last, with a little attention, a whole day. In the

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fireplace were hooks and trammel, the bake-pan and the kettle ; at the side of the room and about it stood a plain walnut or cherry table and splint-bottom chairs, and the easy high-backed rocker; upon the shelf were spoons of pewter, blue-edged plates, cups and saucers, and the earthen tea-pot. In one corner stood the old-fashioned high-post, corded bedstead, covered with quilts, a curiosity of patch- work and laborious sewing each one, the ever-present spinning-wheel, and not unfrequently a loom. In the ex- pressive language of another it can truly be said, " When it is seen what difficulties the pioneers had to encounter,- at the dense forest that covered the soil,-at the cost of marketing their products,-we can only marvel at the im- provements that have been made. Year by year, under the sturdy blows of the axe, the forests have receded and the fruitful fields taken the place of the mighty wilderness. Hard work was their lot,-their only guarantee of success."

From a pioncer address we quote : " Brave, strong, carn- est, honest meu were these pioneers. Those named do not deserve mention more than many others, only they hap- pened to be among the first. As fathers of the township they merit the warmest words of commendation,-grateful remembrances. They laid, broad and firm, the foundations of present prosperity, which is rich with the promise of future progress. Their monuments are in the fields made fertile by their labor, in the golden harvests and the waving corn, and in the orchards that they planted."

THIE FIRST HIGHWAYS.

The Dexter trail (so called) was cut through in May, 1833. Mr. B. O. Williams, in a paper read before the State Pioneer Society, Feb. 6, 1878, says : " In the early part of May, Judge Dexter, with a colony of eight or ten families, arrived in wagons with horses, oxen, and cows at the Kech- e-won-dau-gon-ing reservation, en route for the present site of Ionia, on the Grand River. Ilaving tried in vain to get a guide, Mr. Dexter and others came to us for help. I left our planting, taking my blankets and small tent, and in six days landed them at lonia, looking out the route and directing where the road was to be. This was the first real colonizing party we had ever seen, myself having never been farther than De Witt (the Indian village). I then procured Maek-e-ta-pe-na-ee ( Blackbird) to pilot me past Muskrat Lake and Creek, and from there proceeded with the party."

This trail entered the town of Riley at the southeast corner of section 35, and went in a northwesterly direction through 35 aud 26 to its northwest corner; thenee diago- nally through sections 22 and 16 into section 8 at its south- east corner ; thence through section 8 into the southwest corner of section 5, and into and through the northeast corner of section 6, where it joins the State road that now runs through scetion 31 in Bengal. As the country be- came settled and fenced this trail was discontinued, and the State road, which ran in nearly the same direction, was worked and became the highway. This road after leaving the section- line road began ou section 28; running north forty rods, it bore off in a northwesterly course through sec- tion 28 across the northeast corner of section 29; thence across section 20 and across the northeast corner of section

19 into section 18 to the half section-line; thence on that line about forty rods ; thence in a northicasterly direction about forty rods it enters the present quarter section-line road ; thence north. on that road till it enters the town of Bengal. This road, where it ran in a northwesterly course through sectious 28, 29, 20, 19, and IS, was takcu up about ten years since.

ORGANIZATION AND LIST OF OFFICERS.

The act organizing the township of Riley was approved March 15, 1841. It provides that " All that part of the county of Clinton designated iu the United States survey as township No. 6 north, of range 3 west, be and the same is hereby set off and organized into a separate township by the name of Riley, and the first township-meeting therein shall be held at the house of Charles M. Thornton, in said township." In conformity with this act, the first township- meeting was held at the house of Charles MI. Thornton, in April, 1841, and the township officers were elected. The records of that first election having been destroyed by fire,* it is impossible to give the names of the officers then elected.

The second township-meeting was held at the house of Charles M. Thornton, April 7, 1842. The whole number of votes cast was twenty-four. The following persons were elected to fill the various offices of the town : Supervisor, Atwell Simmons ; Town Clerk, Nathan Case; Treasurer, Charles M. Thornton ; School Inspectors, Morris Boughton, Atwell Simmons, Daniel C. Smith; Commissioners of llighways, Morris Boughton, Nathan Reed, Samuel W. Croukhite ; Directors of the Poor, Atwell Simmons, Charles M. Thornton ; Justices of the Peace, Morris Boughton, J. J. Cronkhite (vacancy) ; Coustables, Philip P. Peck, Nathan Reed.

The township officers of Riley cleeted annually from 1843 to 1880, inclusive, have been the following-named, viz. :

1843 .- Supervisor, Morris Boughton ; Clerk, Ephraim H. Phillips ; Treasurer, Daniel C. Smith ; School Inspectors, Joseph W. Cook, Atwell Simmons ; Justices, Joseph Cook, Gordon Treat, P. P. Peck. 1844 .- Supervisor, Morris Boughton ; Clerk, Ephraim HI. Phillips ; Treasurer, Daniel C. Smith ; School Inspector, Lyman Hungerford ; Justice, Lyman Ilungerford.

1845 .- Supervisor, Lyman Hungerford; Clerk, William B. Burritt ; Treasurer, Constant Shaw ; School Inspector, Richard 1. Burt; Justice, Constant Shaw.

1846 .- Supervisor, Lyman Hungerford ; Clerk, Joseph W. Cook ; Treasurer, Constant Shaw ; School In- speetors, L. Hungerford, M. Boughton ; Justice, Philip P. Peck.

1847 .-- Supervisor, Philip Burritt ; Clerk, Jacob Carlisle ; Treasurer, Constant Shaw ; School Inspector, Philip Burritt ; Justice, Joseph W. Cook.

1848 .- Supervisor, Lyman Hungerford ; Clerk, Henry Jones ; Treasurer, Constant Shaw ; School In-

* Tho township records were kept at the house of J. J. Cronkhite, deputy clerk, and were burned with the house, July 1, 1811.

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spector, Benjamin F. Nichols; Justice, P. Bur- ritt.

1849 .- Supervisor, L. Hungerford ; Clerk, Henry Jones ; Treasurer, P. Burritt; Sehool Inspector, P. Burritt ; Justices, Philip P. Peck, Henry Jones. 1850 .- Supervisor, L. Hungerford ; Clerk, Henry Jones ; Treasurer, Henry F. Jones ; School Inspector, L. Hungerford ; Justice, Philip Burritt.

1851 .- Supervisor, L. Hungerford ; Clerk, Henry Jones ; Treasurer, Morris Boughton ; School Iuspector, P. Burritt ; Justiees, Joseph Cook, William Hildreth.

1852 .- Supervisor, L. Hungerford ; Clerk, Henry Jones ; Treasurer, Henry F. Jones; School Inspector, L. Hungerford ; Justice, William B. Ilildreth. 1853 .- Supervisor, Philip Burritt ; Clerk, Philip P. Peck ; Treasurer, Coustant Shaw ; School Inspector, Philip Burritt ; Justice, Henry Jones.

1854 .- Supervisor, P. Burritt ; Clerk, P. P. Peek ; Treas- urer, Henry Jones ; School Inspector, Constant Shaw ; Justices, Ansel Chapman, Ray G. An- drews.

1855 .- Supervisor, Henry Jones; Clerk, P. P. Peck ; Treasurer, Henry F. Jones ; School Inspector, Philip Burritt ; Justices, P. P. Peck, Atwell Simmons.

1856 .- Supervisor, Henry Jones; Clerk, P. P. Peck ; Treasurer, Henry F. Jones; School Inspectors, Edwin H. Pratt ; Shubael Vincent.

1857 .- Supervisor, David P. Wilcox ; Clerk, Henry Jones ; Treasurer, Henry F. Jones ; School Inspectors, Anel Chapman, Harvey Nutting; Justice, Henry Jones.

1858 .- Supervisor, Henry Jones; Clerk, P. P. Peck ; Treasurer, Henry F. Jones ; School Inspector, L. Hungerford ; Justice, Homer Chase.

1859 .- Supervisor, L. Hungerford; Clerk, P. Burritt ; Treasurer, Morris Boughton ; School Inspectors, William B. Owen, Ezra L. Tracy ; Justices, Cyrus B. Pratt, Jolin S. Hildreth.

1860 .- Supervisor, Homer Chase; Clerk, P. Burritt ; Treasurer, Morris Boughton ; School Inspector, Smith N. Hildreth ; Justices, Joseph Cook, Homer Chase.

1861 .- Supervisor, L. Hungerford; Clerk, Ransom M. Brooks; Treasurer, M. Boughton ; School In- spector, Harvey C. Nutting; Justice, H. C. Nutting.

1862 .- Supervisor, Lyman Ilungerford; Clerk, P. Bur- ritt ; Treasurer, M. Boughton ; School Inspec- tor, L. Hungerford ; Justice, Ansel Chapman. 1863 .- Supervisor, L. Hungerford ; Clerk, P. Burrritt ; Treasurer, M. Boughton; School Inspector, Smith N. Hildreth ; Justices, Cyrus B. Pratt, Isaac M. Molineaux, Phineas R. Freeman.

1864 .- Supervisor, Morris Boughton ; Clerk, William B. Owen ; Treasurer, James Ilodges; School In- spector, florace Wixon ; Justice, Phineas R. Freeman.

1865 .- Supervisor, Horace Wixon ; Clerk, Ammi R.

Boss; Treasurer, Ilenry F Jones; School In- spector, S. N. Ilildreth ; Justices, P. R. Free- man, Rufus B. Pratt.

1866 .- Supervisor, M. Boughton ; Clerk, William H. Chaddock ; Treasurer, C. B. Pratt ; School In- speetor, P. Burritt ; Justices, Horace Wixon, James Hodges, Matthew Williams.

1867 .- Supervisor, Henry Jones ; Clerk, William H. Chaddock ; Treasurer, C. B. Pratt; School Inspector, Charles W. Hildreth ; Justices, R. M. Brooks, Josiah D. Wiekham, William L. Davis.

1868 .- Supervisor, Henry Jones; Clerk, A. R. Boss; Treasurer, II. F. Jones ; School Inspector, P. P. Peck ; Justiees, P. P. Peck, Ephraim Case.

1869 .- Supervisor, M. Boughton ; Clerk, Calvin Ingram ; Treasurer, S. N. Hildreth ; School Inspector, Stephen S. Gage; Justices, James Ilodges, An- drew J. Halsted.

1870 .- Supervisor, L. Hungerford ; Clerk, Calvin Ingram ; Treasurer, Byron S. Pratt; Sehool Inspector, A. C. Robinson ; Justices, A. Halsted, Adam Kin- caid.

1871 .- Supervisor, Henry Jones; Clerk, A. R. Boss ; Treasurer, Amariah B. Cook ; School Inspector, John R. Kimball; Justices, Holland Sias, C. W. Hildreth, William Frost.

1872 .- Supervisor, A. R. Boss; Clerk, Lafayette Fenton ; Treasurer, Amariah B. Cook ; Justiees, John P. Madden, P. P. Peck, John Q. Benedict.

1873 .- Supervisor, L. Ilungerford; Clerk, L. Fenton ; Treasurer, Charles N. Plowman ; School In- spector, Charles W. Hildreth ; Justice, Elam Cutter.

1874 .- Supervisor, William H. H. Knapp; Clerk, L. Fenton ; Treasurer, Amariah B. Cook ; School Inspector, J. B. Knapp; Justice, Richard Baylis.

1875 .- Supervisor, William H. H. Knapp; Clerk, L. Fenton ; Treasurer, A. B. Cook ; School Inspec- tor, M. Boughton ; Superintendent of Schools, George E. Boughton ; Justice, Jacob Miller.

1876 .- Supervisor, William H. H. Knapp; Clerk, Thomas H. Jones ; Treasurer, A. B. Cook ; School In- spector, John Pingel; School Superintendent, A. R. Boss ; Justice, John I'. Madden.

1877 .- Supervisor, William H. H. Knapp; Clerk, T. H. Jones ; Treasurer, A. B. Cook ; School Inspec- tor, John Pingel ; School Superintendent, George E. Boughton.

1878 .- Supervisor, William H. II. Knapp; Clerk, L. Fenton ; Treasurer, Charles N. Plowman ; School Inspector, John H. Boss ; School Superintend- ent, John W. Keeny ; Justices, Roderick I. Foot, John Wandel.

1879 .- Supervisor, William H. H. Knapp; Clerk, Robert B. Peabody; Treasurer, Charles N. Plowman ; School Inspector, H. L. Pratt ; School Superin- tendent, John W. Keeny ; Justices, Walter M. Cronkhite, S. N. Hildreth, John II. Boss.

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1880 .- Supervisor, William H. H. Knapp ; Clerk, Charles Dane ; Treasurer, Henry W. Bliss; School In- spector, Albert Whitaker ; School Superintend- ent, George E. Burnes ; Justices, Henry Jones, John Wandel, Albert Whitaker.

RELIGIOUS HISTORY.

Wherever the smoke of the settler's cabin rose, there soon came the circuit preacher bound on his mission of good.

Traversing trail and forest-path, he found eordial wel- come everywhere. The first of these pioneer preachers was a man named Jackson, and his first meeting in the township was at the house of Charles M. Thornton.

The North Riley class, Methodist Episcopal Church, was organized about 1842, at the house of Philip P. Peck, by a preacher from Lyons. The members were very few. The class was reorganized in 1863-64, by Revs. L. M. Garlick and C. Chick. The members were P. P. Peck and wife, M. Boughton and wife, J. H. Patterson and wife, John Jay and wife, William Owen and wife, S. N. Ilildreth and wife, Lydia Hildreth, John Hildreth, Elizabeth Ben- jamin, and Mrs. Temple; their meetings were held in the Boughton school-house. That winter, 1863-64, there was a revival, which added some forty to the class. The fol- lowing fulfilled their mission here from 1864 to the present time, 1880 ; William Jenkins, James Roberts, Joseph Wil- kinson, F. J. Bell, William MeKnight, J. S. Harder, H. B. Nichols, S. Snyder, and the present pastor, Rev. L. M. Garliek. The present membership is twenty-one.

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History of Shiawassee and Clinton counties, Michigan, Part 117

Author: Ellis, Franklin, 1828-1885 Publication date: 1880 Publisher: Philadelphia, D.W. Ensign & co. Number of Pages: 716

Author: Ellis, Franklin, 1828-1885
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Philadelphia, D.W. Ensign & co.
Number of Pages: 716