Livingston County MI Archives Photo Place.....****GATE**** June 12, 2007 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Jesse Winters [email protected] June 13, 2007, 9:36 am Source: Plesant Valley Cemetery Photo can be seen at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/mi/livingston/photos/gate15181ph.jpg Image file size: 124.1 Kb Plesant Valley Cemetery is located on the west side of Plesant Valley Road, just north of Jacoby Road and a mile west of Kensington Road, Brighton Twp, Brighton, Michigan. A very nice cemetery still in use, there are a number of stones that have fallen and are turning to dust, there are also a few temp markers that are twenty years old, I should think there will never be a stone on those graves. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/mi/livingston/photos/gate15181ph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/mifiles/ File size: 1.1 Kb

Oakland County MI Archives Obituaries.....Nahajewski, Frank June 11, 2007 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: John B. King [email protected] June 13, 2007, 8:58 am Local News, Tampa, Fl., Hillsborough county, Wednesday, June 13, 2007. Frank Nahajewski, 27, of Tampa died June 5, 2007. Born in Royal Oak, Mich., graduate of the University of South Carolina. Survivors: Phil and Anna Nahajewski of Orlando, Fl; Sister, Jill Nahajewski of Tempe, Ariz; Grandmother, Florence Nahajewski of Warren, Mich. Friends may gather 1-3 p.m., Saturday, June 16, 2007 at Blount & Curry Funeral Home (corner of West Hillsborough Ave., & Silvermill Drive). Online guestbook, blountcurry.com Blount & Currry Funeral Home, (813) 814-4444 John B. King, Tampa, Fl. [email protected] Additional Comments: Royal Oak, Mich., is located in Oakland county. Royal Oak Beach is located in Cheboygan county. Orlando, Fl., is located in Brevard and Orange counties. Tempe, Ariz., is located in Maricopa county. Warren, MIch., is located in Macomb county. Blount & Curry Funeral Home, West Chapel is located in Hillsborough county. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/mi/oakland/obits/n/nahajews1926gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb

Ingham County MI Archives Photo Place.....Rolfe Cemetery Sign June 9, 2007 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Terri Lindemann [email protected] June 11, 2007, 9:20 pm Source: Rolfe Cemetery Photo can be seen at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/mi/ingham/photos/rolfecem104373gph.jpg Image file size: 249.6 Kb Rolfe Cemetery is located on Barnes Road, Vevay Township, Mason, Michigan. Cemetery is located near the intersection of Barnes Road and Laxton Road. Section 29 File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/mi/ingham/photos/rolfecem104373gph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 0.9 Kb

Allegan-Ottawa County MI Archives Obituaries.....Vojvodic, Carl M. August 1978 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nancy Williams [email protected] June 11, 2007, 6:38 pm Holland Michigan Killed in a motoercycle accident in Holland Michigan. Died also is a cousin visiting from florida. Family from Fennville, Michigan File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/mi/allegan/obits/v/vojvodic1925gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 0.7 Kb

Ionia-Eaton County MI Archives News.....THINGS I REMEMBER by Ben Probasco December 1979 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: LaVonne Bennett [email protected] June 11, 2007, 3:25 pm MI, IONIA COUNTY: THE SEBEWA RECOLLECTOR Bulletin Of The Sebewa Center Association; Volume 15, December 1979, Number 3. Submitted With Permission Of Current Editor Grayden D. Slowins. December 1979 THINGS I REMEMBER By Ben Probasco When I started farming I used a hand corn planter. My dad marked the rows with a home made tool that was a six-inch log or timber with stakes protruding to scratch the ground and leave marks for the rows of corn………Later we got a couple of John Deere riding cultivators……..I was born May 21, 1885 at the Showerman house a half mile south. When I was about six years old my parents decided to make a trip to Texas to visit Uncle Uzel Probasco. We left Sunfield by train. We lived in the Merrifield house on Bippley Road on the land that Howard Meyers now owns. When we returned from Texas my father built this house where I live so that we could move in in late tall. He always said that it took the last cent he had to pay for the plastering……Granddad came here as a cooper and had a cooper shop, first on the corner at Sebewa Center soon after 1852. A little later he sold that land to Sam Gunn and bought the land where I live and built another cooper shop across the road from where Howard Meyers lives. I never saw him do any cooperage work because he was finished with that work before my time. He made a tight barrel and made whiskey barrels and cider barrels. When that kind of played out he made butter tubs. He could make four a day when he had the timber, at a dollar and a quarter apiece. I think he used white oak. The hoops were made out of hickory. When they were notched out right you could slip them right together and they would stay. He had a lot of tools up in his buggy shed and corn shed. They were right in there when I sold Roy Sears the shop so Roy got the tools but they didn’t keep them anymore than I did. I think I sold the building for $40 and I don’t know if Wallace has the building left or not. Frank Cassel came over and moved it. Before 1883 the schoolhouse was on Granddad’s corner. He was always good to kids and raised flowers. He would work harder than a man would at farming. He had a good garden for everybody. He had about half an acre of flowers around the house that was moved for the Portland Christian Reformed Church parsonage. Granddad was married three times. His first wife, my grandmother, was Deborah Showerman. After she died he married I. A. Brown’s sister, Luryette. The next one was a Quackenboss. She had been married before and her man died. Her maiden name was Boyer. Pa always said that Granddad could make a barrel airtight but he couldn’t nail up a gate. My Dad, Gene, and Heman Brown went to the World’s Fair in Chicago in 1893. Near the fairgrounds they had Libby Prison set up. Heman had been a prisoner of war when the old tobacco warehouse was made a prison at Richmond, Virginia. He was in the prison a short time before the war closed. He had cut his initials in a door frame. When they went to look over the reconstructed building at the fair, there were his initials in the door frame. For souvenirs at the fair, Pa brought folders and he brought me a little box about an inch high that was made in Japan. It had two mud turtles about as big as a nickel. You just wiggled the box a little and the turtles seemed alive. I was at the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904. I got a stopover to the fair for three or four days on my way to Texas. I was seventeen years old. St. Louis people took the fairgoers in to make a little money and accommodate the crowds. Frank Showerman and Kelly had a cousin there and they stayed with her…….Granddad was the youngest one in his family. There in Ohio he did the farming. The other boys had all gone then…….Uncle Ephraim Probasco was here in Sebewa first. He owned the land where Ken Seybold lives in section 15. Uncle Uzel took this up for Granddad. Granddad was only 16 years old when he got it. His brother it up for him through a Mexican War grant. They had a brother who was killed in the Mexican War. There were a lot of the Ohio people who came up here. Lots of the settlers were from Ohio. I suppose they got noise of this part of Michigan down there that this was a pretty good place—probably a few mosquitoes and a little water. Anybody from Sebewa was known as a “Swomp Angel”. It’s a pretty good place to live in now. When Granddad came to look at land here he wanted to go to the land on the southeast corner of the Center. He was at the corner of Bippley and Sunfield Roads and went to the Center by way of Marshall Ralston’s on Musgrove Road. Pa asked him what he went that way for. He said “Well, the water was four feet deep between the Center and a mile east”. You can imagine what it could be in the spring when there were no ditches. Pa said he could remember when from the corner on Bippley east past Wesley Meyers’ place to the hill there was an old crossway—logs and blacksnakes and a little dirt on them logs. He said the water was four feet deep on either side of the road. I guess the country has improved quite a lot. End. Ben is now 94 and is at the Eaton County Medical Care Facility at Charlotte….. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/mi/ionia/newspapers/thingsir63gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 5.8 Kb

Isabella County MI Archives Obituaries.....Harless, Boyd Walter August 22, 2006 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Anna Harless [email protected] June 11, 2007, 3:21 pm Stehenson-Wyman Funeral Home August 24, 2006 >From the Stephenson-Wyman Funeral Home: Boyd W. Harless, age 81, of Farwell (formerly of Mt. Pleasant) passed away on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 at Aleda Lutz VA Medical Facility in Saginaw. He was born the son of Chester and Emma (Tyler) Harless on Oct. 9, 1925 in Morrisvale, West Virginia. He had served in the US Navy during WWII. He married Mary Eileen Sanford on June 21, 1947 and she preceded him in death on July 18, 1998. Boyd moved to Farwell 10 years ago from Pentwater where he retired in 1988. Prior to 1988 he had resided in Mt. Pleasant where he operated Central Automotive the Home of Mr. Badwrench. He attended the Trinity Baptist Church in Farwell. Mr. Harless is survived by his children, Gary and Sandy Harless of Pentwater, Linda and Jeff Arnold of Farwell, and Connie and Mark Petersen of Pentwater, his grandchildren, Rebecca, Skyler, Jarred, Brooks, Joseph, and Darcy, Great-grandchildren, Gavin and Estella, brothers James and William, and Sister Anna Mae Lumbert. He was preceded in death by his wife, and sister Sybil. Additional Comments: Buriel at Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Mt. Pleasant Michigan File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/mi/isabella/obits/h/harless1924gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb

Isabella-Washtenaw County MI Archives Obituaries.....Harless, James Howard May 13, 2007 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Anna Harless [email protected] June 11, 2007, 3:18 pm Ann Arbor News, May 15, 2007 HARLESS, JAMES HOWARD Of Augusta Township, Ypsilanti, MI Age79 went to be with his Lord on Sunday May 13, 2007, after a long illness. He was born on June 13, 1927 in Lincoln Co. West Virginia the son of Chester Boyd and Emma Susan (Tyler) Harless. He married Dorothy Louisa Leonard on March 18, 1950 in Bowling Green, Wood Co. Ohio and she survives. He served in the United States Army from 1945-1947, 63rd Infantry Regiment 6th Division, as a tank destroyer stationed in Kansan, Korea and was honorably discharged as a Staff Sergeant on April 04, 1947. Jim “Bear” was a building contractor by trade owning Yoakum-Harless Builders. He was the Constable, Building Inspector and on the Planning Commission of Augusta Township and the first Washtenaw County Deputy of Pittsfield Township, he was an expert marksman and sharpshooter. He was the pilot of his own private aircraft as well as an avid fisherman. He also enjoyed western square dancing, playing cards, bowling and the restoration of antique vehicles. Besides his wife, he leaves to mourn his death the following children: Anna Marie Harless-Blanton, James Alan (Jenifer) Harless and Jo Anne (Mark) Bacheldor; 8 grandchildren; Lisa, David, Marcus, Amy, Elizabeth, Jacqueline, Michael and Jessica; 10 great grandchildren, his brother, Billy (Nona) Harless of Alma and sister, Annie (Richard) Lumbert of Mt. Pleasant. He is preceded in death by his parents, his beloved daughter Christine Lynne Desfosses, grandchildren; Traci and Christopher, a sister Sybil and a brother Boyd. The family will receive friends at the NIE FAMILY FUNERAL HOME, 2400 Carpenter Rd. on Wednesday, May 16, 2007 from 2 – 4 and 6 – 8 p.m. Visitation will continue at the funeral home on Thursday, May 17th from 12:00 Noon until the time of funeral service at 1:00 p.m. His nephew Reverend Darryl Harless officiating. Interment with military honors will take place on the family plots at Alban Cemetery Ypsilanti, MI File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/mi/isabella/obits/h/harless1923gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 2.5 Kb

Ionia-Eaton County MI Archives News.....HISTORICAL BUILDING - A FIRST FOR SEBEWA October 1979 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: LaVonne Bennett [email protected] June 11, 2007, 1:35 pm MI, IONIA COUNTY: THE SEBEWA RECOLLECTOR Bulletin Of The Sebewa Center Association; Volume 15, October 1979, Number 2. Submitted With Permission Of Current Editor Grayden D. Slowins. October 1979 A FIRST FOR SEBEWA The Michigan History Division, Department of State, Secretary of Stat’s Office to Lansing has announced that the old Weippert Mill on Sebewa Creek at the corner of Bippley and Keefer Roads in Sebewa Township has been added to the State Register of Historical Buildings. David Schroeder’s application for the building’s historic designation was sponsored by The Sebewa Center Association. The mill and dam were built in 1876 by Adrew Weippert on the site where Melvin Rogers and Charles Ingalls had previously had such an operation. Mr. Weippert operated the mill until his death in 1903. It was later in business under the successive managements of John Benedict, Harry Gibson and a Mr. Merritt. Although it was primarily a grist mill, buckwheat flour was one of its products. This is the first time that any building in Sebewa Township has been placed on the State Register of Historic Buildings and probably the first such building to be so honored in the south part of Ionia County. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/mi/ionia/newspapers/historic62gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb

Ionia-Eaton County MI Archives News.....THRESHING A CENTURY AGO August 1979 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: LaVonne Bennett [email protected] June 11, 2007, 1:22 pm MI, IONIA COUNTY: THE SEBEWA RECOLLECTOR Bulletin Of The Sebewa Center Association; Volume 15, August 1979, Number 1. Submitted With Permission Of Current Editor Grayden D. Slowins. August 1979 MI, IONIA COUNTY: THE SEBEWA RECOLLECTOR Bulletin of The Sebewa Center Association; Volume 14, June 1979, Number 6. Submitted with permission of current editor Grayden D. Slowins. THRESHING A CENTURY AGO: August 6, 1879. Sebewa Corners. The Ionia County Farmers Mutual Insurance Co. have had their inspectors around examining threshing machine engines where there interests are involved. August 27, 1879. Mr. Albert Figg had the misfortune of having a stack of wheat containing about 130 bushels entirely destroyed by fire last Tuesday. The fire was caused by Charlie Bennett’s Pitts thresher engine. Charlie generously declared that he would stand half the loss and no one blames him for carelessness. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/mi/ionia/newspapers/threshin61gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb

Ionia-Eaton County MI Archives News.....WEST SEBEWA INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS August 1979 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: LaVonne Bennett [email protected] June 11, 2007, 1:17 pm MI, IONIA COUNTY: THE SEBEWA RECOLLECTOR Bulletin Of The Sebewa Center Association; Volume 15, August 1979, Number 1. Submitted With Permission Of Current Editor Grayden D. Slowins. August 1979 MI, IONIA COUNTY: THE SEBEWA RECOLLECTOR Bulletin of The Sebewa Center Association; Volume 14, June 1979, Number 6. Submitted with permission of current editor Grayden D. Slowins. WEST SEBEWA INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS: Although the West Sebewa Odd Fellows had an organization prior to 1910 it was on February 15, 1910 that a charter of incorporation was issued for the West Sebewa I. O. O. F. Stock was issued and a program was started to build a hall, the same building that is the Patterson store building of 1979. Here follows a list of the subscribers to the capital stock of the West Sebewa IOOF: S. A. Haight, J. M. Rounds, Frank L. Kauffman, Buel Austin, S. L. Kauffman, Oliver Prosser, Barney Oatley, Edwin Leak, G. E. Waring, Ezra Oatley, C. F. Harper, J. W. Evans, W. L. Munson, W. S. Hunt, C. I. Goodwin, Howard Williams, Charles Boynton, Harry Millstead, Fred Andrews, T. H. Reed, Henry Pierce, R. W. Goodemoot, James L. Lalonge, John Seybold, W. P. Fender, John Millstead, William Rubedew, George W. Greenman, B. Brand, Ernest York, Sidney Chapin, Dell B. Sherman, Charles Hough, John Williams, Leon D. Williamson, D. A. Creighten, B. N. Schneider, Geo. H. Ritenburgh, Geo. M. Hazzard, Francis L. King, Clarence Bessey, Fred Edinger, C. R. Waring, Sam Leak, Lewis Staples, Benjamin Lowe, Edward Demaray, J. A. Schetler, A. M. Baird. NAMES LATER ADDED BY TRANSFER OF STOCK: Frank Bippley, H. M. Brownfield, Seymour Gates, Jno. S. Hunt, Melvin Ingall, John Leak, Joseph Ralston, Byron Snyder, Benj. Brand, Henry Darnell, Adam Fender, Guy Harwood, George Gunn, F. M. Kenyon, Geo. Liverton. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/mi/ionia/newspapers/westsebe60gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 2.4 Kb

Ionia-Eaton County MI Archives News.....OUT INTO THE WORLD FROM WEST SEBEWA; As told on tape by T. Leander Peacock. June 1979 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: LaVonne Bennett [email protected] June 11, 2007, 12:57 pm MI, IONIA COUNTY: THE SEBEWA RECOLLECTOR Bulletin Of The Sebewa Center Association; Volume 14, June 1979, Number 6. Submitted With Permission Of Current Editor Grayden D. Slowins. June 1979 OUT INTO THE WORLD FROM WEST SEBEWA; As told on tape by T. Leander Peacock. I was born near West Sebewa June 3, 1894. My parents were Eunice Lindley and Sam Peacock, son of John Peacock, who lived in the log house on M 66 just north of the Clarksville Road on the Odessa side. I went to school at West Sebewa and that was the extent of my education through the eighth grade in my sixteenth year. We took the eighth grade examination at Lake Odessa in the old High School building. I remember Alta Johnson as one of my teachers and also one of the Carpenter girls. At home I worked on the farm some. When my brother got a little bigger, I began to work out in the summers for two or three years. I worked in the West Sebewa store one summer when W. R. Wells owned the store. His son was operating the store and he wanted to be gone for the summer so I took his place in the same building that Mrs. Patterson now operates her store. We bought eggs and cream from the farmers. The truck came over from Woodbury once a week and picked up the cream and eggs and took them to Woodbury to ship them out. We tested the cream and paid for the amount of butterfat. We had a Babcock centrifugal tester turned with a crank. We also bought butter. We did not buy poultry. A truck came through the neighborhood for that. We sold drygoods, overalls, groceries and things of that kind. We did not have the post office in that building. About that time the Presbyterian Church just south of the store stopped holding meetings. The membership got so low that they quit and went to other places to church. The Creightons, Goodemoots, Thorps and others as well as myself used to go to that empty church to play cards and fool around as young men do. The stove was about shot so we met there only in good weather. I painted houses some in early summer but later I went to work threshing and working in the sawmill. I worked eight winters in the sawmill and eight falls with the gang thresher. I tended the separator and looked after the blower so that whoever was stacking straw could get the straw where he wanted it. By that time we had begun threshing out of the field though some were still stacking the grain before we threshed it. I worked with Jimmy Creighton one year and the rest of the time with his son, Sam Creighton. Jimmy was a good manager. He had threshed for a good many years before that. I think that my father was with his crew for one or two falls. Sam Creighton had a bean huller besides the thresher. Lots of times we slept right in the barns where we were threshing because we were quite a little ways from home. Sam had seven or eight men in the crew that followed the thresher. Bill Elens and one of the Downing boys were in the crew. There was quite a bit of transient help in the crew. The pay was 50 or 60 cents a day. This went back to the period of 1910-1918. The Creightons used a steam engine. When I was a kid we would hear the steam whistle blow and we would run out by the road and watch the outfit coming and kept on watching until it got out of sight. I went in the first call of the first draft in World War I. At Fort Custer at Battle Creek they put me in the first squad. The Corporal had been in there about three weeks and they made him a Sargeant and they had to replace him with somebody and I became the Corporal so I had the first squad in the outfit. I got a chance to volunteer with an outfit that was going across the pond. I thought the war was going to end before I would get over there. When we got down to New York State, half of our men were in one barracks and half were in another small barracks. The other barracks became quarantined for measles so they sent my half right on across. Over there we were helping to build a camp at St. Lazare, in France…………….I spent from spring until Armistice Day on the ammunition detail. Part of that time I was chauffeur for French officers. I drove both an English-made Model T Ford and a French Renault. That was the best job I had in the army. I had two leaves of two weeks while I was in France and visited mountain resorts in Southern France. My father died while I was on the front and I did not know about his death until six weeks afterward. Once in a while the mail would catch up to us but it was a long time between times. We came home on a German ship that had been confiscated. The apparatus that desalinized our drinking water played out and the last two days we had no fresh drinking water. We made tea from the salt water. We were five days in New York and then they sent us on down to Camp Custer and then we were sent home the next day. I was paid off $30 and $30 extra and on that I came home to find a job. I think I pained some houses as my first work. We never got any other Government help. I worked for Sam Creighton again for a year and then started farming on my wife’s folks’ place near Lake Odessa and ran a threshing rig of my own for a while. I also did some tile ditching. I worked for Zerfas International Harvester dealership for eleven years, six years in the Lake Odessa Machine Shop and then I worked thirteen years for the John Deere dealer in Lake Odessa. My sons are Tom, Harry and Dick. Betty is our oldest daughter and one other daughter, Kathryn, died. Frances and Helen are the other two daughters. Walter Peacock is my youngest brother. The two boys between us died. I also had three sisters. Mrs. John P. (Shirley) Lich is my granddaughter. She has carried a part of the family back to its Sebewa beginnings. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/mi/ionia/newspapers/outintot59gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 6.4 Kb

Ionia-Eaton County MI Archives News.....CENTENNIAL FOR MRS. MABEL WILLIAMS June 1979 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: LaVonne Bennett [email protected] June 11, 2007, 12:14 pm MI, IONIA COUNTY: THE SEBEWA RECOLLECTOR Bulletin Of The Sebewa Center Association; Volume 14, June 1979, Number 6. Submitted With Permission Of Current Editor Grayden D. Slowins. June 1979 CENTENNIAL FOR MRS. MABEL WILLIAMS. On July 15 Mabel Williams celebrates her 100th birthday anniversary. She was born on her father’s farm on Musgrove Highway where Henry Smith now lives. She and Leon Williams raised their family a mile further west in Odessa Township. You may send your greetings to her in care of her daughter, Mrs. Bernice Bulling, Box 66B, R2, Lake Odessa, Michigan 48849. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/mi/ionia/newspapers/centenni58gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 1.2 Kb

Ionia-Eaton County MI Archives News.....SEBEWA VETERANS’ GRAVESITES April 1979 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: LaVonne Bennett [email protected] June 11, 2007, 11:27 am MI, IONIA COUNTY: THE SEBEWA RECOLLECTOR, Bulletin Of The Sebewa Center Association. Volume 14, April 1979, Number 5. Submitted With Permission Of Current Editor Grayden D. Slowins. April 1979 JOHN WADDELL, HIS BOOK OF MEMERYANDOM, July 15th, 1828. John Waddell was naturalized in New York March 21, 1836. John Waddell was Bornd August the 15 in 1800 Harriett Cramp was Bornd July the 8 in 1805 John Waddell Ht Cramp was married November the 20 in 1824 The Registers of their Sons & Daughters John Waddell was Bornd in England in England February the 25th in 1825 Arrived in America July the 26th, 1826 William Waddell was bornd November the 25th in 1828 Walter Waddell was Bornd November the 1, 1830 Walter Waddell Died November the 10, 1830 George Waddell was Bornd October the 20, 1831 George Waddell Died October the 25, 1831 Elisor Waddell was Born May the 1 in 1836 Thomas Waddell was Bornd September 14, 1832 Harriet Waddell was Born July the 22, in 1838 Jacob Waddell was Bornd November 14, 1834 Jacob Waddell died December the 17, 1834 Richard Waddell was Born October the 5, 1840 William Waddell Died January the 12, 1839 Sharlot Waddell Was Born October the 14, in 1841 John Waddell Died February the 16 in 1880 Harriett Waddell Died March 28th 1884. (Editor’s Note: John Waddell in 1850 owned the SE ¼ of the NE ¼ of section 22 and the W 1/2 of the SW ¼ of Section 14 in Sebewa. In their old age John and Harriett were cared for by the Theodore Gunn family in a little house to the east of where Ken Seybold now lives.) File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/mi/ionia/newspapers/sebewave57gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb

Ionia-Eaton County MI Archives News.....SEBEWA VETERANS’ GRAVESITES February 1979 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: LaVonne Bennett [email protected] June 11, 2007, 10:40 am MI, IONIA COUNTY: THE SEBEWA RECOLLECTOR, Bulletin Of The Sebewa Center Association. Volume 14, February 1979, Number 4. Submitted With Permission Of Current Editor Grayden D. Slowins. February 1979 LITTLE ORVILLE HAS LOST HIS FLAG The Michigan Veterans Trust Fund Board of Trustees has recently made inquiry of local officials as to whether the local cemeteries may have any unmarked veterans’ graves or if any government headstones or bronze plaques might be held in storage rather than being placed on veterans’ graves. That brings us to the list of graves that have flag holders and have had flags placed in the holders each year for many a year in the past. The graves in the EAST CEMETERY so marked are: Frank H. Rathburn, Heman S. Brown, Jacob W. Evans, J. Snow Peabody, Elmer J. Showerman, Irving A. Brown, Nick DeVries, Rollin Derby, Ernest Showerman, Carl McClelland, Walter Luscher, Ross Tran, Joseph Schnabel, William H. Pettingill; William Lumbert, Jacob Showerman, Jonah Carpenter, Samuel Bigham, Dr. G. W. Snyder, Charles Hiar, Annis M. Hiar, Nathanial N. Tidd, John R. Petrie, Charles Deatsman, Charles A. Nichols, George E. Friend, John P. Franks, Alonzo N. Evans, J. H. McClelland, John Cross, Orlando V. Showerman, Myrtle D. Showerman, Allan B. Lippencott, Wm. H. Southwell, John M. Bradley, A. L. Olmstead, G. W. Lusk, Dale Tran, Glenn Fender, Wm. Showerman, Cecil Tackett. In the BAPTIST CEMETERY: L. J. Heaton, George Trumpower, Oren Daniels, H. Rodegeb, H. Bates, J. C. Clark, D. W. Goddard, H. Evans, Stephen York, Burton Daniels, Elkanah Carpenter, J. S. M. Peabody, J. S. Henry, Stephen Everest, Cleon Creighton. The George Trumpower grave is not marked with a headstone. For many years the name of Orville Albro has been on this list. Dr. Orville Albro was wonce a resident physician of Sebewa Corners and was health officer in 1872. Soon after that he moved to Portland and he is buried in the Portland Cemetery. The Orville Albro in our East Cemetery was the doctor’s infant son. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/mi/ionia/newspapers/sebewave56gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 2.6 Kb

Ionia-Eaton County MI Archives News.....IN 1848 THE INDIANS TOOK LEGAL TITLE TO SHIMNECON BACK. February 1979 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: LaVonne Bennett [email protected] June 11, 2007, 10:29 am MI, IONIA COUNTY: THE SEBEWA RECOLLECTOR, Bulletin Of The Sebewa Center Association. Volume 14, February 1979, Number 4. February 1979 IN 1848 THE INDIANS TOOK LEGAL TITLE TO SHIMNECON BACK. >From (Liber) F, Page 332, Register of Deeds Office, Ionia County, Michigan Wm. Fitch and wife to Dagmacke and Menekquett 21st of December 1848 Party of the first part for the sum of $324 in hand paid by party of the second part has granted, bequeathed, do grant, bargain and sell to second part now in actual possession, now being and to their heirs and assigns forever. All that certain piece or parcel of land lying and being in Ionia County, State of Michigan The NE fr. Of SW1/4 of Sec. 21 Town 5 N, R 5 W containing 108 and 20/100 acres according to U. S. Survey. Followed by a long paragraph customary in deeds that gave the Indians full rights to the property with Fitches giving up their rights along with their heirs. Sworn before Chas. W. Ingalls, Justice of the Peace. Previously the Indians had an encampment about a mile east in Danby. Later Chas. W. Ingalls purchased the property when the Indians were removed to the reservation at Mount Pleasant. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/mi/ionia/newspapers/in1848th55gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb

Ionia-Eaton County MI Archives News.....Sebewa Centenarians February 1979 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: LaVonne Bennett [email protected] June 11, 2007, 10:27 am MI, IONIA COUNTY: THE SEBEWA RECOLLECTOR, Bulletin Of The Sebewa Center Association. Volume 14, February 1979, Number 4. February 1979 1878 WAS A GOOD YEAR FOR CENTENARIANS. Besides Clara Evans, who celebrated her 100th birthday last October, another one-time Sebewa resident, Mrs. Edith Shaupp Rusher became a centenarian. Mrs. Rusher is in a convalescent home in Chesaning. Mrs. Rusher and her sister, Cora, who married Rev. Riley Sandborn, were daughters of Adolph Shaupp, a brother to Mamie Downing’s grandmother and mentioned in her account of the Sindlinger family in the October issue of the Recollector. The Shaupps lived on the farm that is now the Howard Knapp farm. Nearing the 100 year goal is Mrs. Mabel Williams, who was born in Sebewa July 15, 1879. She has already celebrated her 100th Christmas and New Years at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Donal Bippley. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/mi/ionia/newspapers/sebewace54gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb

Livingston County MI Archives Photo Place.....Cemetery Map June 10, 2007 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Jesse Winters [email protected] June 10, 2007, 10:11 am Source: Bird Family Cemetery Photo can be seen at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/mi/livingston/photos/cemetery14944ph.jpg Image file size: 65.9 Kb Bird Family Cemetery, Located on Plesant Valley Road at Kensington Road, Brighton Township, Livingston County, MI Cemetery is within sight of the General Motors Proving Ground, Milford, MI Cemetery is in poor condition with a number of markers that are turning to dust as well as maybe a dozen depressions without stones File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/mi/livingston/photos/cemetery14944ph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/mifiles/ File size: 1.1 Kb

Livingston County MI Archives Photo Place.....Cemetery Overview June 10, 2007 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Jesse Winters [email protected] June 10, 2007, 10:09 am Source: Bird Family Cemetery Photo can be seen at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/mi/livingston/photos/cemetery14943ph.jpg Image file size: 152.5 Kb Bird Family Cemetery, Located on Plesant Valley Road at Kensington Road, Brighton Township, Livingston County, MI Cemetery is within sight of the General Motors Proving Ground, Milford, MI Cemetery is in poor condition with a number of markers that are turning to dust as well as maybe a dozen depressions without stones File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/mi/livingston/photos/cemetery14943ph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/mifiles/ File size: 1.1 Kb

Livingston County MI Archives Photo Place.....Cemetery Sign June 10, 2007 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Jesse Winters [email protected] June 10, 2007, 10:07 am Source: Bird Family Cemetery Photo can be seen at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/mi/livingston/photos/cemetery14942ph.jpg Image file size: 135.2 Kb Bird Family Cemetery, Located on Plesant Valley Road at Kensington Road, Brighton Township, Livingston County, MI Cemetery is within sight of the General Motors Proving Ground, Milford, MI Cemetery is in poor condition with a number of markers that are turning to dust as well as maybe a dozen depressions without stones File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/mi/livingston/photos/cemetery14942ph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/mifiles/ File size: 1.1 Kb

Livingston County MI Archives Photo Place.....*****GATE***** June 10, 2007 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Jesse Winters [email protected] June 10, 2007, 10:04 am Source: Bird Family Cemetery Photo can be seen at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/mi/livingston/photos/gate14941ph.jpg Image file size: 146.5 Kb Bird Family Cemetery, Located on Plesant Valley Road at Kensington Road, Brighton Township, Livingston County, MI Cemetery is within sight of the General Motors Proving Ground, Milford, MI Cemetery is in poor condition with a number of markers that are turning to dust as well as maybe a dozen depressions without stones File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/mi/livingston/photos/gate14941ph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/mifiles/ File size: 1.1 Kb