This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/YVW.2ACEB/1092.1106 Message Board Post: Hi, While researching James E. Fisher in Eaton Cty, Mi, I ran across an article from the Detroit News dated Monday, May 25, 1987 entitled "Michigan Pioneer found life tough, but his efforts paid off" by Eric Freedman of the News Lansing Bureau. Excepts from article.....Fisher, a Vermont-born descendant of an old New England family, arrived in Michigan in 1836 from New York State, where he had worked on the docks in New York City and along the Erie Canal........He spent his first winter in the territory timbering in Allegan County, where he helped build a mill. In summer of 1837, he began to develop his 80-acre farm in Eaton County by raising corn and potatoes. The following year, he married another Vermont transplant, Maria Williams, who lived in neighboring Chester Township. Their gg grandson, Mark S. Stornant of Lansing, has researched the family's lineage to gualify for a Sesquicentennial Pioneer certificate from the library of Michigan and Michigan Genealogical Counc! il.... I see I made a note that if I could connect to this family there is a tree going back to the 1400's in the Eaton County Genealogy records. Hopes this helps.