Does any one have any ideas,or clues to this family. Thanks- Mary Mary Jane KNAPP was born on 21 Oct 1831 in Canada [parents]? Mary married Wilkinson GERMAN on 05 Mar 1849 in Talbot Districk, Norfolk, Ontario. Wilkinson was born in Canada. [What happened to Wilkes between 1854,55 and 1859 when Mary married again,death divorce]?? They had the following children: [Was there any more children]? Emily S. GERMAN was born on 04 Jun 1851 in Canada. She died on 15 Aug 1929 in Ionia, Ionia Co., MI and was buried in Balcom Cemetery, Ionia Co., MI. She was born in Canada, June 4, 1851 and came with her parents Ionia County at the age of three years and has been a resident of this [1854,55]? county with the exception of four years that she lived in Ohio. Emily married Thomas Jefferson PICKENS, son of William PICKENS and Elanor VANDYKE, on 28 Sep 1871 in Ionia Co., MI. Thomas was born on 19 Jul 1850. He died on 13 Dec 1935 in Ionia, Ionia Co., MI and was buried in Balcom Cemetery, Ionia Co., MI. Ionia Mary also married (2) William REED on 01 Jan 1805. William was born in Mass.. He died on 06 Jun 1873 in Ionia Co. Mi.. copied; usgenweb/archives/ionia/bios William Reed, , first saw the light of day on ground made memorable in the "long-ago," during the struggle of the colonies for independence. He was born in 1805, near the Bunker Hill battle-ground, in Massachusetts. At the age of twenty he shipped aboard a whaler, and led the life of a sailor a few years. On his return he visited his grandparents, residents of New York, and fell in company with Mr. David Beebe and family who were preparing to come to Michigan; he came with them and located in Oakland County, where Sarah, one of the daughters of Beebe, taught two terms of school, but in the mean time Mr. Reed married her, she completing her school after marriage. In September, 1836, he removed to Berlin township, Ionia Co., and purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land on section 3. On the Sunday following his arrival, with the assistance of four men, he erected a log house on his place. He afterwards purchased two hundred and ten acres additional on section 10 upon which he erected substantial buildings. His death occurred in June, 1873, at the age of sixty-seven years eight months and three days. He was married three times, and his third wife survives him. He was the father of ten children,--six by his first wife and four by his second. He was a man who was much respected. He was energetic and industrious, and from having funds barely sufficient to make his first purchase from government he accumulated a handsome property [Where and when did Mary J. Knapp, German,Reed die]? 3rd wife