Nancy, I have found this to be very confusing. I am from Texas and this is fairly new to me even though my mother's family all lived here. Ovid and Elsie are in Clinton County, but just on the border, and so not in Shiawasse County. My family owned land in Fairfield Township, Shiawasse County, but got their mail in Elsie! How confusing. Some records are in Clinton County and some in Shiawasse. This is a real learning experience for me. Betsy In a message dated 11/9/2006 12:34:27 AM Eastern Standard Time, bartinsca@aol.com writes: > Betsy, I have looked in my Owosso, MI A to Z book and sorry not to find > your > Sawyer or Clement names. I looked and immediately found the Tillitotson > family in Elsie MI. I am a native of MI and had never heard of Ovid and > Elsie...so > glad to learn they are part of Schiawassee County. My Phillips family were > in Bancroft. Nancy

sometimes there were very sneaky people who moved those county lines back and forth a few feet!! That is what makes all of this so much fun, am I right??? ----- Original Message ----- From: <BBrock7337@aol.com> To: <mishiawa@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 7:30 AM Subject: Re: [MISHIAWA] Jerome Sawyer 1810 - 18?? > Nancy, I have found this to be very confusing. I am from Texas and this > is > fairly new to me even though my mother's family all lived here. Ovid and > Elsie > are in Clinton County, but just on the border, and so not in Shiawasse > County. My family owned land in Fairfield Township, Shiawasse County, > but got > their mail in Elsie! How confusing. Some records are in Clinton County > and some > in Shiawasse. This is a real learning experience for me. > Betsy > > In a message dated 11/9/2006 12:34:27 AM Eastern Standard Time, > bartinsca@aol.com writes: > >> Betsy, I have looked in my Owosso, MI A to Z book and sorry not to find >> your >> Sawyer or Clement names. I looked and immediately found the Tillitotson >> family in Elsie MI. I am a native of MI and had never heard of Ovid and >> Elsie...so >> glad to learn they are part of Schiawassee County. My Phillips family >> were >> in Bancroft. Nancy > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MISHIAWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hi Nancy, This doesn't pertain to your search for ancestors but here is a story that parallels your information about living in one township and getting mail in another. A friend of mine lived in Pennsylvania but his mailing address was in Ohio. I guess the post office doesn't care about state lines and his delivery person came from the post office in Ohio. Now just try convincing companies or cops that you live in Pennsylvania even though your address is in Ohio. Good luck in your search. vern ----- Original Message ----- From: <BBrock7337@aol.com> To: <mishiawa@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 8:30 AM Subject: Re: [MISHIAWA] Jerome Sawyer 1810 - 18?? > Nancy, I have found this to be very confusing. I am from Texas and this > is > fairly new to me even though my mother's family all lived here. Ovid and > Elsie > are in Clinton County, but just on the border, and so not in Shiawasse > County. My family owned land in Fairfield Township, Shiawasse County, > but got > their mail in Elsie! How confusing. Some records are in Clinton County > and some > in Shiawasse. This is a real learning experience for me. > Betsy > > In a message dated 11/9/2006 12:34:27 AM Eastern Standard Time, > bartinsca@aol.com writes: > >> Betsy, I have looked in my Owosso, MI A to Z book and sorry not to find >> your >> Sawyer or Clement names. I looked and immediately found the Tillitotson >> family in Elsie MI. I am a native of MI and had never heard of Ovid and >> Elsie...so >> glad to learn they are part of Schiawassee County. My Phillips family >> were >> in Bancroft. Nancy > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MISHIAWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

I was born and raised in Perry, MI in Shiawasse Co. Elsie and Ovid High Schools were in the same conference as Perry, so we visited both towns. Ovid is or was on the county line. East side of Main St. was Shiawassee Co. and the west side of Main was in Clinton Co. I think the same thing existed in Elsie. Dennis Thrush At 07:30 AM 11/9/2006, you wrote: >Nancy, I have found this to be very confusing. I am from Texas and this is >fairly new to me even though my mother's family all lived here. Ovid and >Elsie >are in Clinton County, but just on the border, and so not in Shiawasse >County. My family owned land in Fairfield Township, Shiawasse >County, but got >their mail in Elsie! How confusing. Some records are in Clinton County >and some >in Shiawasse. This is a real learning experience for me. >Betsy > >In a message dated 11/9/2006 12:34:27 AM Eastern Standard Time, >bartinsca@aol.com writes: > > > Betsy, I have looked in my Owosso, MI A to Z book and sorry not to find > > your > > Sawyer or Clement names. I looked and immediately found the Tillitotson > > family in Elsie MI. I am a native of MI and had never heard of Ovid and > > Elsie...so > > glad to learn they are part of Schiawassee County. My Phillips family > were > > in Bancroft. Nancy > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >MISHIAWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Text inserted by Platinum 2006: > > This message has NOT been classified as spam. If it is unsolicited mail > (spam), click on the following link to reclassify it: > http://127.0.0.1:6083/Panda?ID=pav_19066&SPAM=true >---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------