This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gFB.2ACE/1258 Message Board Post: Am looking for the parents of Ada Ann bigelow who married Increase Carver. I Think maybe in Hillsdale Co. Still looking for the date and place. Ada Ann bigelow Carver is buried in Lickly Corners Cemetery,Wright,Hillsdale,MI - she died 28 Nov 1882. Would appreciate any help on this family. Thank you.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Jones Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gFB.2ACE/429.624.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: I'll send you an email with some possibilities.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gFB.2ACE/429.624.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2 Message Board Post: Do you know if there is a way to get copies of the book? I would love to have it!!!!!

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Jones Olds Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gFB.2ACE/429.624.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: As I have stated, Benaiah Jones III and Benaiah Jones, Jr. are one and the same person and Lois Olds is indeed his wife, as the documents you cite indicate. However, the point is that Benaiah Jones III/Jr.--the person to whom your documents refer-- is NOT the person buried in the cemetery in Michigan. That is his father, Benaiah Jones II, the father-in-law of Lois Olds Jones. As I said, Ralph Powers of Jonesville, the great-great-grandson of Benaiah III and Lois Olds, has written a book on the subject, which my husband and I have helped to republish. My husband is the great-great-grandson of Benaiah III by his second wife, Amanda Evans, in Texas, where he had a second family with several children. I believe Mr. Powers has placed a copy of the book in the Jonesville Public Library. All the documentation (including letters written by Benaiah Jones III/Jr. from Texas and his will, which refers to both his Michigan family and his Texas family) you may require is in the book. Be! naiah Jones III/Jr. married Lois Olds on Aug. 1, 1818, in Painesville, Ohio. His father Benaiah II and his mother Jemima Skinner Jones also lived in Painesville at the time. His mother died there and is buried in Ohio. She thus did not come to Michigan with the others. Benaiah Jones III/Jr. later left his family in Michigan and came to Texas, where he married Amanda Evans in Montgomery County on April 9, 1842 (despite never apparently having been divorced from Lois Olds). Since the book by Ralph Powers is 125 pages long, it would be more efficient to consult the book than for me to type in all the documentation here, although I am happy to address specific questions. There is absolutely no doubt that the Benaiah Jones Sr. (Benaiah II) in the cemetery in Michigan is the father of Benaiah Jones III/Jr. and the father-in-law of Lois Olds Jones and that Benaiah III/Jr.--the husband of Lois Olds and the person to whom your documents refer--came to Texas and died here in 1861.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gFB.2ACE/429.624.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I had mentioned that I have other documents. Here is another one. Transcript of Deed Liber I page 13 of deeds Dated October 27 1831 Acknowledged Novemebr 5 1831 Recorded May 19 1832 in Lenawee County, Michigan Liber "B" page 51 & 52 of deeds Beniah Jones Jnr. Lois Jones his wife of the county of Hillsdale Territory of Michigan to Wm. H & Wylly P Tuller of Tecumseh in the Territory of Michigan. Conveying land situate in the village of Jonesville in the said County bounded and described as follows. (The document goes on to describe the property and follows with the certification entried which follow below) Certified by register of deeds in Lenawee County, State of Michigan, July 13 1842 Certified by register of deeds in Hillsdale County, State of Michigan October 9 1842 This certified copy titles both Benaiah Jr. and wife Lois Jones. There are many others transcripts of deeds. All the deeded documents that are in my possession list Benaiah Jr. with his wife Lois Jones. So I believe that she is his wife. After his death you start to see large examples of land speculation in the town limits. There are also speculators who lost their worth and ended penniless, while purchases were made at 1/4 to the dollar. I haven't found nor seen any physical documents or proof there of that have stated Benaiah Jr is not the spouce of Lois Olds. However I do have certified copies of documents that link them. If you have proof I would like to see or be copied on it, if you wouldn't mind.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Jones Olds Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gFB.2ACE/429.624.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: There are three Benaiah Joneses. The one who married Lois Olds is Benaiah III, the son of Benaiah II and Jemima Skinner. He is the one referred to as "Jr." in some of the documents. Benaiah III left his wife Lois Olds Jones and all but one of their children in Michigan and came to Texas with his son Croesus in 1837. At that time his father, Benaiah II, remained in Michigan. In Texas Benaiah III remarried (although he and Lois Olds don't appear to have formally divorced) and had a second family. Some of his children remained in Michigan, but Linnaeus, Croesus, and Rhoderick came to Texas and stayed. The Benaiah who is buried in Michigan is Benaiah II. His wife died in Ohio before they came. Lois Old Jones is his daughter-in-law. Ralph M. Powers, Jr. of Jonesville wrote a book called "Benaiah Jones III, American Frontiersman," recently privately republished. Copies of it should soon be available in Jonesville and other repositories. Mr. Powers and others renovated the Jones p! lot in Michigan and placed the plaque there in 2001 that lists the people in the Jones-Olds family plot. He also placed a plaque in Texas listing both the Michigan and Texas families of Benaiah Jones III.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gFB.2ACE/429.624.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: All current Markers in the Jonesville Cemetery name Benaiah Jones as Sr. However, I possess a "Certifed" copy of a land Patent, certification date of document is July 16th 1925, between the "United States of America by the President Andrew Jackson and Robert Clark Jr. & Benaiah Jones Jr. of Michigan Territory". I futher have a "Certified" copy of a "Transcript of the Plat of the Village of Jonesville". The first line is stated as "I Beniah Jones Jnr. of the county of Hillsdale in the Territory of Michigan have caused to be surveyed and laid out the above town plot by name of Jonesville". Benaiah married Lois Olds, 35 years his junior. Benaiah could have been married before, this I don't know. However he died in 1839 and I believe that the markers within the Jonesville cemetery are wrong. I live in the center of town in Jonesville. I have copies of other documents refering to "Jr", nowhere on these documents do I find "Sr".

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This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gFB.2ACE/429.624.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Burried in Jonesville Cemetery Hillsdale County, Michigan are as follows.. (This is an Olds Jones Family Marker) Benaiah Jones Sr. 1755-1839 Lois Olds Jones 1790-1875 Cordus Mutus Jones 1828-1840 James D Jones 1830-1831 Seargent Dan'l Olds Conn. Mil. Rev, War 1759-1836 Lois Stanley Olds 1762-1854 Dr. L.M. Jones Family Marker Dr. Leondidas Meltlades Jones 1822-1905 Charlotte A.M.C. Holcomb Jones 1821-1883 James B Olds 1846-1847 Emmergene Allena 1861-1862 Susan Clara 1853-1875 (Seperate Marker) Lois wife of Benaiah Jones First resident of Jonesville died march 28th 1875 (same marker as Lois) Cordus Mutus Jones of Benaiah and Lois.. First child born in Hillsdale County Michigan died june 25th 1840 aged 12 years. I have pictures if anyone is intrested in them Brenda

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gFB.2ACE/1255.1.1 Message Board Post: I can't thank you enough for this information. I had given up hope finding out where he was born in Iowa. This definitely gives me a new lead! Thank you for taking the time to help me. Please let me know if I can find someone for you in the 1880 census - I have the CD collection of the entire nation and it is searchable in many ways. I have had success finding individuals with it when other means have failed.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sawyer, Hazen, Harrington, Rice, Smith, Little, Risley Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gFB.2ACE/1257 Message Board Post: Looking for descendents of Ruhamah Harrington. She first married Paul W. Hazen then married 2nd Samuel Sawyer. With Paul W. Hazen they had 3 children: 1) Luke, stayed in PA and NY area. His children also seemed to stay in PA and NY 2) Sarah , stayed in NY area 3) Paul W. Jr. moved to Michigan with his son Henry. Many Hazen descendents in Hillsdale and Branch County area. Would like to contact relatives. With Samuel Sawyer they had several children. Many descendents in Hillsdale County area. Also Calhoun County. Ones I know of in Branch and Calhoun County Michigan: 1) Samuel Sawyer, married Abigail Smith 2) Ruel Sawyer, I don't think he ever married 3) Ammi H. Sawyer married Mary Gifford, lived in Albion Note: two great grandchildren of Ruhamah Harrington married each other. Charles M. Sawyer married Martha A. Hazen. This family of Hillsdale County. They had a son Willis Jay that was born in Hillsdale County. Charles M. Sawyers line from Ruhamah Harrington goes: Paul W. Sawyer and Ruhamah Harrington Paul W. Sawyer Jr. and Anna Little Erastus Sawyer and Eliza Ann Risley Charles M. Sawyer and Martha A. Hazen Martha's A. Hazen's line from Ruhamah Harrington goes: Samuel Sawyer and Ruhamah (nee Harrington) Hazen Samuel Sawyer (Jr.) and Abigail Smith Aurilious P. Sawyer and Fanny Rice Charles M. Sawyer and Martha A. Hazen. Would love to have contact with any related families. Have much information to share and more I'd like to fill in. Would also like to contact descendents of Samuel Sawyer and Abigail Smith. email casay2@attbi.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Jones Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gFB.2ACE/429.624.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Benaiah Jones III, who is the son of Benaiah Jones II and Jemima Skinner, came from Jonesville to Texas in 1837 and died in Grimes Co. (now Waller Co.) Texas in 1861. It is Benaiah Jones II who is buried in Jonesville. Jemima Skinner Jones died in 1820 in Painesville, Ohio, before the Jones family came to Michigan Territory and founded Jonesville.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Jones Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gFB.2ACE/429.624.1.1.1.2 Message Board Post: Benaiah Jones II (1755-1839), father of Benaiah Jones III who went to Texas, died in Jonesville and is buried in Sunset View Cemetery in Jonesville. Benaiah Jones II came from Hebron, Conn., and served in the Revolutionary War.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Jones Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gFB.2ACE/429.624.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: The Benaiah Jones in the Jonesville Cemetery, Hillsdale Co., MI was the founder of Jonesville, MI in 1829. He lived 1755-1839 and was the son of Benaiah Jones II and Jemima Skinner.

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/gFB.2ACE/429.624.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Who is the Benaiah Jones burried in Jonesville Cemetery ?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gFB.2ACE/1255.1 Message Board Post: >From the book 150 Years In The Hills and Dales: The younger generations call it the "haunted house". Would the mortal bones of Frank P. Robards turn over in their earthly grave were he to know that, in recent years the house was used for the "Scream in the Dark" Halloween spook house? Built in the 1900 era, the battered, hulking skeleton of its one time magnificence still stands to greet the morning sun as it rises over the King Lake Cemetery. Only a few of Hillsdale's native citizenry, born in the same era, recall the Robards house in its hey-dey - a grand and glorious structure with huge rooms, open stairway, secret niches, bay windows, balconies and studio attic. Incongruous amid its surroundings, the little that is left cannot but stir the imagination of the passer-by. Surely in that house took place gay parties, elegant suppers and the afternoon teas reserved for the "society" that was Hillsdale's in that era. Surely we must envision the tighly corseted ladies with their bustled behinds and parasols, accomplanied by palm beach suited gentlemen, who partook of Robards' hospitality, if only for a fleeting decade in Hillsdale history. Surely meticulously curried horses pulled their carriages up to those doors where ladies tarried long enough to leave their calling cards if Mrs. Elizabeth Robards happend to be out making calls of her own. Today the glassless windows of the Robards house stare in shabby silence at the Hillsdale Public Golf Course and the modern automobiles speeding past the decaying front entrance which opened briefly to a kind of hospitality that is no more. Today the house is mere mute testimony to an era long gone. The flamboyant part of Robards' life in the house was short lived. The Elmer Hagaman family purchased the farm and accompanying home in 1913, only a few years after its beautfiul birth. The Hagaman family occupied the house until about 1925, when it reverted to Mr. Robards. It was here that Mr. Robards, badly bent if not completey broken, spent his last, lonely days. He died March 4, 1940, just three weeks after he and other patients had been moved from the old Hillsdale Hospital to the new Community Health Center. Since that time, the house has gradually fallen victim to the disease and decay of many another of its Victorian counterpart. It was in this house that the once dashing figure of the local politician, campaign manager and "mine host" turned seedy, unkempt and reclusive. It was here the the once gregarious figure spurned even the occasional visitor. At age eighty-three, the now desolate hermit was perhaps enjoying a certain final complacency in the anticipation of a meeting with his Maker. Mr. Robards obituary states he was born in Independence, Iowa in 1857. He had been manager of stores in Des Moines, Iowa and Saginaw, Michigan. Perhaps it was in the latter city that he met and married the beautiful and talented Elizabeth. Her obituary states she was born in Saginaw. When Mr. Robards came to Hillsdale, he became a "gentleman farmer". He would not have been the first, with lack of experience in agricultural pursuits, who made a much better gentleman than farmer. He was well known as a local politician and gained state-wide recognition in political circles as campaign manager for those aspiring for the senate and legislature. Frank Robards laid out the first rural free mail delivery route in Hillsdale County. Through the years he held several offices in Hillsdale Township and City governments. When the home was sold in 1913, the family moved to 57 Broad Street in Hilldale. It was here, on May 16, 1932 that Mrs. Elizabeth Robards died. Mr. and Mrs. Robards parted not only from their dream home, they had parted from one another. Though they died unreconciled, both are buried in Hillsdale's Oak Grove Cemetery with the son, Frank P. Robards, Jr., who died in 1905, in the promise of youth at age nineteen. The boy had sumbitted to several brain surgeries in Detroit and Chicago, following an earlier fall. The ornate "Robards" monument and stone of this son bespeak of the affluence of the 1905 days. Frank and Elizabeth lie in otherwise unmarked graves, with only the name, "Robards" to memorialize their colorful contributions to Hillsdale's history. Mrs. Robards is recalled for her benevolences in Hilldale's charitable projects and organizations as well as her activities in the local social doings. Was it "easy come, easy go?" Several unauthenticated versions of the house have it that it was constructed with money won by Mr. Robards in a Louisiana lottery. Other versions say the money was won in a card game or election bet. There were two other children, a daughter, Rolla and a son, Jason. Rolla married William Prideaux, a promising young bank clerk, on November 3, 1904. Rolla, like her mother, was a beautiful and talented woman. It has been stated she was among the fairest and most accomplished of ladies. She wrote for the Ladies Home Journal, using the people she knew best as the characters in her stories. Later Rolla and her son, Thomas, moved to New York City where she continued to write for the aforementioned magazine and others, stories about her home town and the people she had knowsn as a child and young married woman. Thomas became a noted drama critic and senior editor of Life magazine until it ceased publiciation. Jason moved to Hollywood, California, where he enjoyed a respectable amount of fame as a silent screen actor and stage personality. His son, Jason Robards, Jr., is a well-known entertainment personality whose excellent character portrayals are familiar to theater goers, movie and televsion audiences. Frank P. Robards' 1940 obituary states there were four grandchildren. Our research accounts for only two. Where may the others be? Are there great grandchildren somewhere? The Robards family was one of Hillsdale's most colorful and talented. Their lives were vibrant but troubled, their beauty and participation in the arts far above average. Note: The house no longer stands but never do I go by the spot where it once stood but what I think of the stories that I heard about it once belonging to the Robards.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Saxton Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/gFB.2ACE/111.327.2 Message Board Post: Could you email me at genseeker@charter.net? I was wondering where in 1860 Hillsdale Co., Michigan Daniel and wife are locted? I have them in Ransom in 1850 , but not quite sure where they come from. I also was wondering if you ever got the obit for John S. Saxton?? I still believe that this John Saxton is the son of Daniel Saxton and wife Elizabeth Stetson. In the 1850 census Hannah Stetson is living with them so I do believe also that Hannah Durkee Stetson is the mom like you. This Daniel is the brother to my William Wallace Saxton. I have been trying to tie in Daniel's descent , but am having a hard time finding out what happened to his side of the family. Thanks for any help, Mrs. Nevada Boslet

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Saxton Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/gFB.2ACE/123.559.2 Message Board Post: HI, Would you please email me at genseeker@charter.net I have a picture of Dorthy and her grandmother Mary J. Kyser /Saxton Thanks, Mrs. Nevada Boslet

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