[email protected] wrote: > What Graham are you searching for my mother was a Graham from the Hemlock > area.� Ron Streeter HEMLOCK is definitely in the right ballpark.� I don't descend directly from GRAHAMs, but my cousins do.� Here's the pertinent section of my file: �1�� Andrew Graham b: Ireland ..� +Jane b: Ireland ... 2�� [2] James Graham b: 8 September 1830 County Tyrone, Ireland� d: April 1910 Saginaw Co., Michigan� buried:� Owen Cemetery, Saginaw Co., MI .......� +Phoebe A. Bonestring� m: 6 October 1862 d: Bef. 16 January 1866 ......... 3�� Eliza Graham b: 19 July 1863 Thomastown Twp., Saginaw Co., Michigan� d: Abt. 26 May 1928 Swan Creek, Saginaw Co., Michigan .............� +John Arthur McBratnie, Sr. b: Abt. 1859 m: 9 October 1888 d: Abt. 9 March 1939 Saginaw Co., Michigan ............... 4�� Charles C. McBratnie, Sr. b: Abt. 1887 Saginaw, Saginaw Co., Michigan� d: 20 July 1966 Sanford, Florida ...................� +Charles McBratnie's wife Rose A.�� d: Aft. 20 July 1966 ............... 4�� [1] Agnes McBratnie b: 28 May 1890 Saginaw Co., Michigan� d: 25 July 1971 Oden, Michigan ...................� +Henry R. "Harry" Elliott b: 1889� d: 6 October 1919 ...............� *2nd Husband of [1] Agnes McBratnie: ...................� +Joseph D. "Joe" Frost b: 9 February 1888 Thomas Twp., Saginaw Co., Michigan m: 15 January 1929 d: 17 July 1980 Saginaw Co., Michigan ............... 4�� Ann Graham McBratnie b: 26 July 1894 Saginaw Co., Michigan� d: 7 May 1977 Saginaw Co., Michigan ............... 4�� John Arthur McBratnie, Jr. b: Abt. 1896� d: Abt. 25 August 1916 Saginaw, Michigan ......... 3�� Anna Graham b: 25 November 1864 ...� *2nd Wife of [2] James Graham: .......� +Eliza M. Stiff b: 16 February 1841 Warren Co., New Jersey m: 16 January 1866 There is a bio of James Graham in Chapman's 1881 History of Saginaw County.� It says that the Grahams were of Scots ancestry and that James came to Saginaw County in 1851.� He settled in Thomastown Twp. in 1854.� At Hoyt Library, I found a Thomastown plat map (late 19th century?) with J. Graham noted in section 32 -- about 6 sections from Hemlock.� Written across sections 32 and 33 is "Graham's Station."� James' daughter, Eliza, married a McBRATNIE who also lived in Thomastown Twp. (section 24).� Eliza's uncle-in-law, William McBratnie, ran a general store in Hemlock and was Hemlock's postmaster during the 1870s.� (I'm connected through the McBratnies -- I descend from Eliza's brother-in-law, Will.) If this family connects with yours, I can put you in touch with Agnes McBratnie Frost's grandchildren.� Some of them live in Saginaw. Mary Richardson P.S.� This thread started with a discussion of ANDRE and LOCKWOOD.� P.C. Andre owned property in Thomastown section 32 just south of J. Graham. � �