Deaths of Early Macomb County Settlers recorded in Leeson's History of Macomb County (1882), pp. 484-495.

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Reuben R. Smith, of Ray Township, died April 27, 1866, aged sixty-nine years.
Mrs. Mary Matthews died May 5, 1866, aged seventy-one years.
Mrs. Mercy A. Giddings died November 22, 1866, aged fifty-two years.
Stephen Giles, of Ray, died suddenly March 18, 1867.
Dr. Benjamin Sutherland died at his home in Ray Township, January 31, 1867, in the fifty-seventh year of his age. He was born in Rutland County, Vt., June 1810. He studied medicine at Lewiston, N.Y., came to Michigan in 1836, and settled near Romeo.
George Chandler died at Romeo February 18, 1867, aged sixty-six years. He located there in 1845.
Asa Curtiss, of Armada, died of apoplexy, at Romeo, March 15, 1867.
Mrs. Matilda Ward, wife of Andrew Ward, of Armada, died suddenly March 19, 1867.
Chauncey H. Whitney, Secretary of the County Agricultural Society, died at Utica April 21, aged fifty-five years.
Joshua Smith died at Almont July 29, 1867, aged eighty years.
James Benjamin fell forty feet from the staging of a church at Dryden, Lapeer County, and was instantly killed, September 12, 1867.
E.L. Stone, of Washington Township, died November 7, 1867.
Wesley Willey, of Ray, died suddently January 25, 1868.
Mrs. Hugh Norton died in Macomb Township February 14, 1868.
Joseph Moyres died in Washington Township in April, 1866.
Mrs. Elijah Thorington died suddenly March 21, 1868.
Mrs. Sarah Beekman died March 31, 1868, aged seventy-five years.
Eli Mussey, father of Dexter Mussey, died August 18, 1868, aged eighty-eight years.
Mrs. Sarah Harvey died suddenly September 19, 1868, aged sixty-eight years. She was born at Morristown, N.J.
William Chandler, formerly of Romeo, was accidentally killed at Cleveland, Ohio, October 10, 1868.
Mrs. James Starkweather was killed a few miles north of Baltimore, Md., November 16, 1868, by being run over by the cars. She was born at Clarkson, N.Y., July 14, 1807, and came to Michigan in June, 1825.
Dr. Neil Gray died December 14, 1868. He was born at Kenwilligg, Ayrshire, Scotland, in 1802, and, thirty years later located the Gray farm in Macomb County.
Dr. Reuben Nims died at his home in Washington Township February 2, 1869, in his seventy-fifth year. He was born in Berkshire County, Mass.
Gurdon Hovey died at Romeo June 11, 1870. It is stated that he was a centenarian.
Mrs. Celia Van Atter died at the home of A. M. Leach, Romeo, December 13, 1870, aged seventy-five years.
Mrs. Emma Lathrop, of Armada, died March 21, 1871, aged seventy-five years.
Luther Farrar died March 12, 1870.
Mrs. Clarissa Goff died in Shelby, Mich., April 8, 1871, aged eighty-one years. She was the wife of Harvey Goff, and daughter of Squire Goff, the first Baptist preacher who settled at Rush, Monroe Co., N.Y. She was born near Hartford, Conn.
William M. Connor, a soldier of the United States in the late war, died at Mt. Clemens May 14, 1871.
Neil Gray, son of Dr. Neil Gray, died at Romeo June 10, 1871.
Mrs. Lemrock Bailey died August 7, 1871, at Union, Canada West. As Miss Maryette Curson, she was favorably known to old settlers.
Mrs. Eliza Carpenter, aged sixty-one years, died tragically August 25, 1871.
Manly Thurston met a tragic death in 1870.
Aaron B. Rawles, one of the pioneers of Romeo, and one of its most prominent citizens, died April 4, 1872. He was born at Albany, N.Y., in 1812, and came to Detroit in 1832, and to Romeo in 1834.
Mrs. Levi D. Chamberlain died at Romeo June 27, 1872. She was born in Schenectady County, N.Y., June 15, 1793. In 1813, she was married to Levi D. Chamberlain.
Charles Peltier, aged seventy-eight years, died at Mt. Clemens June 27, 1872. He served with the Irish and French under RIchard Smythe in the war of 1812, and settled at Mt. Clemens in 1814.
Mrs. Fannie Baldwin was born in Sussex County, N.J., in 1794; married Nehemiah Baldwin, who died in 1832; came to Michigan with her daughter, Mrs. Jeremiah Ayres in 1841, and died at Romeo August 24, 1872.
Dr. J.E. Davis was born in Shelby Township in 1825; settled in Macomb Township as a practicing physician about forty years ago, and died there August 23, 1872.
Mrs. Lydia Adams Buzzell died at the house of her son, Martin Buzzell, November 10, 1872, aged eighty-seven years. The lady w as born in 1787, being the first white child born in the town of St. Johnsbury, Vt. She came to Romeo in 1831.
Jeremiah Curtiss died in Shelby Township November 3, 1872, aged eighty years. He was born near ALbany, N.Y., August 2, 1793; served in the war of 1812; married Mercy Ewell June 10, 1817; moved West in 1832 and settled in Shelby, where he lived continuously until his death.
Aaron Stone died in Washington Township November 28, 1872, aged eighty-two years. He settled in Washington Township in 1820, and dwelt there until his decease.
Isaac Monfore died April 28, 1871, in the sixty-eighth year of his age, at his residence in the village of Disco.
Mrs. Suel Hovey, formerly Lucinda Holmes, was born at Derby, Vt., October 13, 1798; married Suel Hovey in January, 1818, and coming with her husband and family to Michgian in May, 1826, settled in Macomb County in June of that year. She died August 31, 1877.
George Hovey, born in Genesee County, N.Y., in 1819, came to Michigan about 1829; was married in 1843, and deceased November 25, 1879. His death was sudden. Having left for the timber lands of Nathan Eldred, for the purpose of chopping logs, at an early hour, and not returning, his daughters induced some neighbors to go in search of him. Those searchers found him in the woods dead.
Mrs. Ruth Thurston, wife of B. H. Thurston, died March 1, 1873. She was born in Madison, N.Y., in 1814.
Suel Hovey, born at Lebanon, N.H., March 9, 1875, died at his residence, one mile north of Romeo, March 2, 1873. The deceased moved westward in advance of the civilizers, and was from his boyhood a pioneer. After the war of 1812, he became acquainted with Lucinda Holmes, and married her January 25, 1818.
John Wesley Shaw, born in Canada October 3, 1839, died at Romeo March 3, 1873. He was married to Maggie Overton April 17, 1867.
Miss Sophia Chamberlin, formerly of Romeo, died in Alabama December 2, 1872.
James Starkweather was born October 26, 1801, at Norwich, Conn. He came to Michigan in September, 1824, and settled in the township of Washington; moved into Bruce in 1826, and to Romeo in 1872, where he died February 10, 1873.
Hannah Miller, wife of Daniel Miller, died March 8, 1873. Her maiden name was Phillips. She was born at Rush, Monroe Co., N.Y., May 9, 1811. In 1833, she married Nicholas Wheeler, and with him moved to Chicago, Ill. He dying in 1841 left her at liberty to marry Daniel Miller, October 9, 1843, with whom she came to Macomb County.
William P. Washer, father of George Washer, died suddenly April 25, 1873. The deceased was born in Sussex County, N.J., in 1801.
Mrs. William McKay died suddenly while attending a meeting at M.E. Church, June 8, 1873, at Romeo.
George Wilson died in Washington Township July 17, 1873, aged eighty-six years. He visited Detroit in 1810.
The sudden death of Mrs. Charles Washburne, of Armada, was recorded August 18, 1873.
Miss Elizabeth Farrar, formerly of Romeo, died at Detroit August 24, 1873, aged seventy years.
John S. Smith, father of Mrs. Samuel H. Ewell, was born at Galon, Monroe Co., N.Y., June 4, 1809; came to Michigan in February, 1832, and located near Tremble's mill, in Bruce, moving subsequently into Lapeer. He died August 22, 1873.
Asa Jenner, of Ray Township, died September 3, 1873, at the age of seventy-four years. He was born in New Jersey, and lived in Ray for over a quarter of a century.
Mrs. Nancy Ewell died at Romeo September 4, 1873. She was born in Worcester County, Mass., March 15, 1781; married Samuel Ewell December 13, 1806. She came to Romeo with her husband in May, 1836.
Abram T. Powell died September 9, 1873. He settled in Washington Township in 1827.
James Maher died at Romeo September 7, 1873, aged sixty-two years. He was born in Oneida County, N.Y.
John Reynolds, of Bruce, died September 10, 1873, aged seventy-six years. He was born in Ireland in 1797.
John Campeau, one of the soldiers of the war of 1812, died at his home, in Harrison Township, September 21, 1873, aged eighty-seven years.
He was born at Detroit January 9, 1786, and served in Mack's company of Michigan infantry in 1812.
Peter Price, born at Rush, N.Y., Janaury 16, 1806, settled in Washington Township in 1823, and died at Bronson, Branch Co., Mich., October 22, 1873.
Dr. Caleb Carpenter died at St. Louis, Mich., October 19, 1873. He settled at Romeo in 1830, and resided there until he removed to Almont, in 1835.
Mrs. Cynthia A. (Luman) Preston, born at Ridgeway, Orleans Co., N.Y., in 1826, settled in Macomb County in 1836; married Luman Preston October 14, 1847; died November 15, 1873.
Valaria E. French, daughter of Harvey G. and Mary S. French, born in Lenox, Macomb Co., Mich., July 18, 1842, died November 12, 1873, from the effects of poison administered by her own hand.
The wife of Joel Thompson died December 30, 1873. Her request that she should not be buried for a week after her death was complied with.
G.G. Deshon died at Utica December 27, 1873. He came to Michigan in 1831, accompanied by his brother, A.G., and the Hon. H. P. Baldwin, both shoemakers.
Edmund Thompson, an old resident of Armada, died February 3, 1874, aged sixty-nine years. He was born in Cayuga County, N.Y. He was a soldier in the late war.
John Townsend died January 5, 1874. He was born in Greene County, N.Y., July 1793; came to Washington in 1832 and located lands in Bruce Township.
Van R. Ames, of Romeo, died January 10, 1874, aged thirty-seven years, thirty-three years of which were passed in that village.
Mrs. Mercy Curtiss, born at Norwich, Mass., September 20, 1798, died at Shelby, Macomb County, January 8, 1874, aged seventy-six years. She was an immigrant of 1832.
E. W. True died at Armada January 18, 1874. He was born at Durham, Me., October 4, 1806; camem to Michigan in 1845, and located at Armada in 1848.
Thomas C. Colles, formerly a resident of Ray Center, died at St. Louis, Mo., January 21, 1874.
John Garvin, born at Hartwick, Vt., in 1789, came to Michigan in 1833, and died at his home, in Washington Township, April 23, 1874.
Harriet Stanton died at the residence of her son, Eber Denison, Oxford, April 20, 1874, in her seventy-fifth year.
Manilla L. Freeman, aged forty years, died May 1, 1874. She was an old resident of Washington Township.
Mrs. Raymond died June 12, 1874. She came to Romeo in 1838, and made it her home.
Mrs. Margaret A. Foe, aged sixty-six years, died at Armada June 22, 1874.
Darius Sessions died at his residence, Armada, June 30, 1874. He lived in the township for forty-eight years. He was born May 8, 1804, a native of Tolland County, Vt.
George Bowerman, an old settler of Washington Township, died February 3, 1875.
David Greene died February 18, 1875. He was born at Berlin, Rensselaer Co., N.Y., in 1808, and settled in Michigan in 1845.
Albert Finch, the senior member of the Finch family, was born in Dutchess County, N.Y., in 1775. In 1800, he moved to Ontario County, where he located near the families of Bailey and Gates, whose names are so closely interwoven with the history of Romeo. In 1823-24, he located at Indian Village, near or on the site of the fair-grounds. The family was progressing, when their son, Alanson, was reported missing. From that moment, sorrow and despair seem to hold possession of the household, until the father and mother of the lost child were relieved of their sorrows by the grave. The sub-chief, Kanobe, was always looked upon by these pioneers as the principal agent in the abduction.
Isaac Taft, one of the pioneers of Bruce, died March 18, 1875, aged seventy years.
Hugh Morton, a prominent member of the Union Farmers' Club, died in March, 1875.
Mrs. Mary S. Johnson died March 19, 1875, aged sixty-five years.
Mrs. John Orr, formerly Mrs. Weldon, died March 21, 1875, aged seventy-two years. She came from New York State at an early date, and was among the first settlers of Richmond.
Joseph A. Holland died at Romeo April 23, 1875. He was born in Washington Township November 3, 1828.
Mrs. George D. Hovey died April 26, 1878, aged about sixty years.
Mrs. Phoebe Sikes, formerly a resident of Macomb, died at Table Grove, Fulton Co., Ill, May 1, 1875.
Hiram Calkins died at Imlay City June 4, 1875, aged eighty-three years. His remains were interred at Mt. Vernon, Macomb County.
Mrs. Castor died at Richmond June 19, 1875.
Mrs. Larzalier died at Lakeville June 30, 1875.
T. L. Sackett, Judge of Probate, died at Mt. Clemens in July, 1875.
Dr. Lewis Berlin, formerly of Romeo, died July 18, 1875.
Mrs. Elizabeth Thorington died July 25, 1875, in her thirty-ninth year. She was the daughter of Christian and Sarah Cole.
Jeremiah Jewell, of Ray, died September 29, 1875, aged seventy-two years. He came to Michigan in 1831 and located in Ray Township.
Mrs. W. J. French, Mrs. Henry Thurston and Mrs. George Parlmalee died in October, 1875.
Thomas Axford died near Disco November 24, 1875.
Austin Day, of Macomb County, died at Utica, N.Y., February 21, 1876.
Azariah W. Sterling died at his home in Washington Township February 27, 1876, aged seventy-nine years. He was born at Saybrook, Conn. In 1831, he settled in Washington Township.
George D. Sandford died at Romeo March 18, 1876, aged fifty-three years. He served in the war of 1861-65, and afterward in the Western Territories, against the Indians.
Mrs. Mason Cole, formerly Miss Charity Gamble, died May 24, 1876, aged fifty-four years.
Albert Edgett died March 16, 1876, aged seventy-one years. He lived two miles northeast of Romeo, in Bruce Township, since 1826.
James Hosner died in July, 1876. He settled in Washington Township at an early day.
Sylvester Seeley was born in New York, in June 16, 1807; learned the trade of carpenter in Niagara County; removed to Macomb in 1831, and settled on land on Section 19, now owned by J.S. Warner. Mr. Seeley worked at his trade and at farming in the county, except two years, up to the time of his death, which occurred March 27, 1878; married, September 16, 1827, to Julia, oldest child of Joseph Thurston, a native of Vermont, born January 11, 1808; three children, one of whom is living. Mr. Seeley was an active man in all that pertains to the new settlement. The mother still lives in Armada Village.
Moses Freeman, son of Joseph Freeman, of Berkshire, Vt., was born May 4, 1801; married Ann Powell August 2, 1829, and had four children; removed to Armada Township in 1824, and was one of the first to locate land in Armada Township, which was a part of Section 31, now owned by Abner Lemon. Mr. Freeman was a military man, having held four commissions of militia, all signed by Stevens T. Mason -- Lieutenant, Captain, Major and Colonel. He was an energetic and busy man to the time of his death, which took place October 4, 1871. The wife died June 17, 1871.
Beekman Chamberlin was born in Canada June 20, 1793; arrived in Macomb County in 1834; took up and cleared 160 acres of land, and spent most of his life in the county; married Malinda Adams, a native of Ontario County, N.Y., and had ten children, seven of whom are still living. She died on the homestead in 1875. Mr. Chamnberlin died in 1870; served in the war of 1812 a short time.
William Young, a native of New Jersey, born in 1801, married Zobida Masters, of same place; removed to Macomb in 1833, and lived twenty years in Bruce Township, then in Washington six years, then to Armada Village, where he died October 16, 1863. His wife died eight days previously. He was a blacksmith in each place mentioned.
Timothy Adams, son of Isaac Adams, was born in Ontario County, N.Y., in 1813. His father and mother were natives of Massachusetts. He settled in Armada, Section 12, in the year 1842, on a farm which he cleared up and made his home till the time of his death, September 19, 1865. He married, in 1843, Betsey, daughter of Justus Grant, a native of Vermont, and had eight children, one of whom survives. Mrs. Adams lives upon the homestead. Her father was a survivor of the war of 1812.
Roswell Webster, a native of Connecticut, came to Macomb in 1825, and took ninety-six acres in Washington, now lying in the village of Romeo; had six chidlren, and was a soldier in the war of 1812; was wounded at the battle of Fort Erie, and received a pension; died at his home in Romeo.
Joseph Goodin was born in Bloomfield, N.Y.; was a pensioner of the war of 1812; came with his father to Romeo in 1830; bought a tract of land in Bruce, upon which both father and son died. They were masons by trade, and had much to do with the building in the earlier days of Romeo.
Warren Tibbits, familiarly known as "Squire Tibbits," was born in Vermont in 1802; moved while a child to Canada, and remained till 1837; he then removed to Armada Township, where he lived till shortly before his death, when he removed to the village and died December 24, 1861. His death was the result of disease of the heart, and was very sudden. His wife, Polly Hart, died January 22, 1875, at the age of seventy-five years. Mr. Tibbits was a successful school-teacher in Canada, and a faithful officer in the township many years.
Ira Spencer, one of the oldest settlers of Armada, died February 6, 1876, aged eighty-four years. He came into the county at an early day, and was well known as a Universalist preacher. He said, "I was born a Democrat, and by the grace of God, I shall die a Democrat."
Mrs. William Crittenden died April 4, 1876, from injuries received in an effort to subdue the flames which destroyed her house that morning.
Isaac Brabb died at Romeo April 13, 1876, aged eighty-one years. He was one of the old settlers of Macomb.
Nathan G. Bates died at his home in Washington Township April 8, 1876, aged forty years.
Mrs. Maria Maynard Spaulding died June 6, 1876, aged fifty-one years.
Mrs. Aratus Smith died June 9, 1876, at Reading, Mich., and her remains brought to Romeo for burial.
Mrs. Anna Wilcox died July 7, 1876, in her eighty-second year. She came to Michigan in 1831, and settled in Washington Township.
Duncan Gass, aged seventy-eight years, died August 1, 1876, at his home in Ray Township. He was one of the early settlers of that township.
Mrs. Frances Curtiss Smith, wife of Calvin Smith, died August 18, 1876, at her home in Armada.
Henry Lawrence died August 16, 1876, in his forty-fourth year.
Marvel Shaw, one of the pioneers of Macomb County, died September 17, 1876. He settled at Romeo in 1830.
Argalius Streeter died in Bruce October 18, 1876.
Mrs. Stitt, sife of Dr. Stitt, died at Romeo in June, 1876.
Giles Hubbard died suddenly November 6, 1876, aged fifty-three years. He was one of the old settlers of Mt. Clemens, and a leading lawyer of the state.
J. Banghart, an old settler of Macomb, died at Romeo November 5, 1876.
Oratus Hulett, aged seventy-seven years, died at Armada September 25, 1876.
E.R. Bentley, of Armada, died November 18, 1876.
Jonas Crissman died at his residence December 15, 1876, aged ninety-one years. He was one of the pioneers of Macomb.
Mrs. Diadema Crippen died January 16, 1877, in her eighty-ninth year. She was born in Washington County, N.Y. September 20, 1783.
Frances Day, wife of Porter M. Lathrop, died January 2, 1877. She was born at Dryden march 5, 1838, and was the daughter of John W. Day, one of the first settlers of that town.
David Mansfield died January 20, 1877, in his seventy-seventh year. He was among the first settlers of Memphis in 1836.
Mrs. Lydia Rix, wife of Oel Rix, settled at Memphis in 1840; died January 4, 1877, aged sixty-two years.
Mrs. Mary E. Kingsbury died March 11, 1877. She was an old resident of Disco.
Mrs. Mary Ann Gilbert died March 18, 1877, aged seventy-five years. Her husband, L.S. Gilbert, died in 1867.
Mrs. C.M. Palmer, formerly of Romeo, died at San Francisco, Cal., March 12, 1877, aged forty-two years.
Mrs. Elizabeth Stone died at Richmond February 1878, aged eighty-six years.
Mrs. Smith, mother of H.O. and G.S. Smith, of Macomb County, died at Madison, Ind., February 6, 1878, in her ninety-second year.
Rev. Daniel J. Poor, formerly pastor of the Congregational Church in Foxboro, and teacher of the schools at Romeo, died at Lexington, Ill., January 29, 1878.
Mrs. Mariah Donaldson, wife of Joseph Donaldson, died at the residence of her niece, in Detroit, November 14, 1877. Mrs. Donaldson was quite well known in Macomb County, having resided for a number of years in Romeo. She had reached the extreme age of seventy-one years. Her remains were taken to Marshall for burial.
Mrs. Palethorpe died November 27, 1877.
The wife of Mr. Wilkes L. Stuart, of Newaygo, in this State, died November 29, 1877. Mrs. Stuart was the last surviving sister of Mr. Cyrus Hopkins, of this place, and will be remembered by many of the older residents of this section as having been a resident of Romeo in its early days, settling here in 1825. She was seventy-three years of age at the time of her death.
Arnold P. Sykes, brother A.J. Sykes, of Macomb County, died at Saginaw December 14, 1877. He served in the United States Navy for three years.
Frisbie Spencer died in January, 1878, at Detroit, on his way home from California, where he had been for his health.
James Reside died in California in January, 1878.
Mrs. Josephine B. Stansbury, widow of the late Edwin A. Stansbury, died at the residence of Hon. A.B. Mayanrd in June, 1878.
George Scott, an old resident of Mt. Clemens, eighty-four years of age, died September 9, 1878.
Almon D. Manley died from brain disease, at Romeo, on the 10th of September, 1878. He was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Manley; was born in Macomb Township August 4, 1844; his parents were among the oldest settlers of Shelby Township. He was an inventor, and much of his machinery is now in practical use.
Mrs. Taylor, wife of Thomas Taylor, died at her home in the town of Bruce September 30, 1878. She was sixty-seven years of age.
Mrs. Mary Brooks died September 30, 1878, aged seventy years; wife of E. Brooks, of Armada.
Elisha Briggs died at his residence in Davis, October 7, 1878, after a long and painful illness, aged fifty.
Mrs. Caroline Hartung, mother of George Hartung, died October 20, 1878. Mrs Hartung was seventy-eight years of age, and the mother of twelve children, nine of whom survive.
Cyrus Hopkins died November 10, 1878, aged seventy-six years. He was born in Ontario County, N.Y., in 1802. He came to Michigan in 1830, and, with the exception of some two years, has been a resident of Romeo since that time. Previous to the building of the new Congregational Church, he was for more than thirty years the sexton.
Joseph Sikes, who died at his residence two miles south of Romeo, November 5, 1878, had owned and lived on the same farm for thirty-seven years--a long period for the West. He was well known to the people as a most industrious, honorable, enterprising and successful farmer.
Miss Adelia M. Miller, born at Warsaw, N.Y., April 18, 1820, settled with her parents in Washington Township in June, 1822; died December 11, 1878.
Mrs. Gilbert Conklin died December 3, 1878, aged sixty-eight years. She dwelt in the neighborhood of Mt. Vernon, Macomb County, for a period extending over forty years.
Mrs. Kimball, mother of Mrs. W. Coykendall, died at the latter's residence December 1, 1878. The deceased was quite aged, being about eighty-three.
Col. John Stockton, of Mt. Clemens, a pioneer of Macomb, and one of the early statesmen of Michigan, died November 26, 1878.
Charles Moser died at Mt. Clemens February 26, 1878.
Albert Ely Leete was born in Stamford, Dutchess Co., N.Y., July 1, 1802, and died at Romeo, Mich., February 24, 1878. He was the seventh generation and lineal descendant of William Leete, who came to this country from England in 1639, as Governor of the Colony of New Haven. After the consolidation of New Haven and Connecticut Colonies under the name of Connecticut, in 1665, Gov. Leete was chosen as Governor of the two united colonies, and held that honorable and responsible place till his death, in 1683. Dr. Leete's mother, Clarinda Gale, was also descended from one of the old and reputable families of Connecticut. Dr. Leete was married, March 17, 1831, in Palenville, N.Y. to Miss Catherine Palen. Seven children--four sons and three daughters--are the fruit of this marriage. Two sons have died--one at the age of two and a half years, the other in military service in 1864. Mrs. Leete, two sons and three daughters, survive to mourn his loss.
George Washer died suddenly April 8, 1878, for many years a celebrated auctioneer.
Mrs. Beagle, widow of Charles Beagle, died April 20, 1878.
Mrs. Elizabeth Morrison died in Shelby April 24, 1878, aged seventy-eight years.
Una Miller died May 2, 1878, after a long and very painful illness of that terrible disease, cancer of the throat. He was an honored member of the Methodist Episcopal society, and universally respected. The parents were the first permanent settlers in Washington, coming in June, 1822, and the deceased is supposed to have been the first white male child born in the town. He was born in the spring of 1823, and was accordingly fifty-five at the time of his death.
The wife of William Pool, an old resident of Bruce, died May 5, 1878, aged sixty-six years. She came to Mcihigan in 1848, settling on the farm on which whe die don the 5th of May, 1878. She was married on the 7th day of May, 1829, and was buried on the 8th of May, 1878.
Henry Collins died May 8, 1878, at the residence of M.I. Brabb. Mr. Collins was seventy years of age, and was an old pioneer in this section, settling here in 1831. He was a man highly esteemed by his neighbors and friends. He was one of the strongest Democrats in the town of Bruce.
John H. Williams, born in Washington County, N.Y. in 1815; died in Macomb County, Mich., May 1878.
Mrs. M.A. Dickinson, a former prominent resident of Romeo, died on the 25th of April, 1878, at the residence of her son-in-law, D.L. Gillette, at Westfield, Mass., at the age of seventy-one years. Mrs. Dickinson was a pioneer of this section, coming to Romeo with her husband Nathan Dickinson, about the year 1838, and remaining her for some years after that gentleman's death, in 1861, going hence in 1869, and making her home with her daughter at Westfield until her death.
Mrs. Charles Kennett, Sr., died June 2, 1878, aged seventy-nine years.
Mrs. Nancy Lamb Andrus, of Washington Township, born at Wilbraham, Mass., November 15, 1790, died June 19, 1878, in the eighty-eighth year of her age.
Sylvester De Land, after a severe sickness of a few weeks, passed away December 8, 1878. He came to Michigan in 1833; lived for a short time in Romeo, then in Ray, but finally purchased land near Memphis, where he resided about thirty years. For the past ten years he has been a resident of Memphis Village. He was sixty-seven years old, and left a wife and six children.
An old man seventy-eight years of age passed away from us January 29, 1879. In his youth, he had married the lady of his choice. He was a Catholic, and she was a Protestant. The marriage ceremony was not performed by a priest. During his last sickness, a few days before his death, a priest called, and, finding that he wished to die in the Catholic faith and be buried in their consecrated grounds, decided that, in order to have this favor, he must be married according to the requirements of the church, by one of their priests. The old lady presented the wedding ring which she have received in her youth, and the two were married by the priest. The husband soon died, and his remains were buried in the Catholic cemetery at Kenockee.
Lester Giddings, a pensioner in the war of 1812, died January 2, 1879, in the eighty-seventh year of his age. He was born in June, 1792, at Granvill, Washington Co., N.Y., to which place his father, Niles Giddings, moved from Hartland, Conn., soon after the Revolutionary war.
Broughton Adams, for many years a resident of Macomb, died on Christmas Day, 1879, at Decatur, Van Buren Co., Mich., aged seventy-nine years.
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. Dickinson, 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 Mt. 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 Township, December 10, 1880.
Mrs. Cornelius Everett, of Bruce, sister of Amos and Lucius Palmerlee, died December 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.
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 Vermont 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 Janaury 29, 1881, 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 Michigan, 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 Harrison 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 Rome March 23, 1881.
Mrs. Lucinda Overton, aged 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, 1881, 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, 1881, aged sixty-two years.
Mrs. C.P. Glaspie, daughter of Joseph Atkinson, of Romeo, died in August, 1881, at Detroit.
Mrs. Levi F. Giddings, duaghter of P.M. Bentley, died in Shelby Township, September 1881, aged thirty-five. She was born in Ontario County, N.Y. and came to Macomb 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, 1881.
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 citzen of Romeo, died suddenly Nvoember 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.
Frank Tremble, or Trombley, of Erin Township, died April 25, 1881, 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 Detroit October 31, 1881, was a gentleman well known to the older residents of Macomb County. He came to Mt. Clemens in 1838, and, in company 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 grocery 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 city, and a most estimable lady. 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 procession nearly a mile long attested.
William Gass, one of th earliest settlers in this vicinity, died on December 31, 1881, at his home in the town of Ray.
Hugh Gray died January 1, 1882. He was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, December 31, 1806. He came to this country with his parents in 1832. He was brought up a farmer in his native country, 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 Clifton a few miles southwest of Romeo. Subsequently, he removed to the latter palce, 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 prominent 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, 1882, aged seventy-six years. The funeral was held at the Methodist Church on Sunday 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, duaghter 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 victim to the flames, May 29, 1882.

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