Gleaning the Past.........Part 2 Burr Oak Township St Joseph County, Michigan |
All of this work is bits and pieces of data I've collected over the years I've spent being a "pack-rat". I love history and research and was a saver of "tidbits of information" since I was a young child. Years before I ever thought about doing our families history. I will name my sources for all information if I know it. This information is being provided in the hope it will shed some light for others who are having some difficulty in finding their way on the path to their families beginnings. I can neither confirm or document any of this information other than as it's being provided here. I hope I'm able to help you toward that end. Jo Garzelloni, 1997
11 March 1881
It was voted to investigate renting or purchasing a town building to be used
jointly with the Township
1882
Lot of Martha Pyle bought and Lockup ordered moved there.
Sale of the old jail and land on 5th Street at public sale, Saturday, 17 January 1885 at 2:00 p.m.
1834
Gideon Sanburn
1835
James C Stowell, Henry S Wheeler and father, Danial
1836
James Bishop and Sidney Carpenter
1834
Reuben Trussell built first frame house at point or near where Nathanial Houston lived,
on angling road to Findley.
(Perrins) Charles E Perrin, born in Sherman Township, 2 September 1843, son of Benjamin Perrin, born 15 October 1814. Decendants of Thomas Perrin, whose wife was ____Porter, ancestor of Commodore Porter. Perrins of French origin. (transcribers note here: Geneva makes a question which says: "I wonder if the Porters were not also?" I think Geneva was wondering if the Porters were also of French origin). Thomas Perrin settled at, or near Hebron, Connecticut in 1710. The names Perrin and Porter are linked several times.
compiler note: I can't make out this entry but have included it for the names in hopes that someone they belong to will have an understanding of them.
1838
Township set up
first township meeting in house of Julius A Thompson
Isaac Holbrook and Mary Holbrook to 26 July 1836
David Loring $1000.00
or Mercy
David and Mary Loring, 20 November 1837
to $2000.00
Benjamin Farley
$2100.00
Warrantee Deed
Lois E Tobey
to John L Davis and Edna B, his wife
and George Wendell Davis
Warrantee Deed
5 March 1839
Maitland Bradley to
Andrew J Hoyne, $100.00
Warrantee Deed
Washington Bailey, 27 September 1839
to George H Green, $100.00
Fayette Olmstead, Pvt., 17th Michigan Infantry, Co H., died 2 November 1863 of wounds received at Campbell's Station, Virginia, White Pigeon Township, St Joseph County, Michigan, 45 years old....
Apologies to you but I abstracted this information very early in my beginnings as a researcher into genealogy and I neglected to write down the identifying numbers so you could get the films for yourself. This is also true for the next family.
1850 Federal Census, Sturgis Township, St Joseph County, Michigan
Olmsted, Daniel W...............41 years......farmer.........born Vermont
Olmsted, Maranda.........38 years..............born New York
Olmsted, Louisa..........15 years..............born New York
Olmsted, George F........13 years...............born New York
Olmsted, Emily...........12 years...............born New York
Olmsted, Amelia..........10 years...............born New York
Olmsted, Herbert......... 8 years...............born New York
Olmsted, Fastt (male).... 7 years...............born New York
Olmsted, Anson W......... 2 years...............born Michigan
Olmsted, David........... 6 months..............born Michigan
Book 14, page 336...Lafayette Olmstead bought on 4 March 1845 of Sherman Township E 1/2 of SW 1/4 Sect.8 Twp.8 Range 10
Book 14, page 337...Daniel W Olmstead bought on 15 July 1845 (can't read) 1/2 of SE 1/4 Sect.7 Twp.8 Range 10
I found these books in the vault of the Deeds office at the county courthouse of St Joseph County in Centreville, Michigan
Census date 27 June 1860
Call No. 317.3 UN3 Micro Copy No.M653, Roll no. 561
Note: I've put this family in this mix for you because I know that Betsy in this family was either a Washburn or an Olmsted (they spelled it this way most of the time here)....Betsy Washburn shown in this household was for sure Bettsy Olmsted, my direct line 3rd great grandmother on my mothers side, her fathers side. Where ever you find the Olmsteds around in Michigan, I would think you'd find all of these names close together as they all seem to have vanished from this area. Also, in everything I've ever seen about this grandmother it always says she was born in Connecticut
census date 29 June 1860
Call No. 317.3 UN3 Micro Copy No.M653, Roll no. 561
1860 Michigan Census, St Joseph County, Colon, page 93
Olmsted, Willard or Millard... 35 years.....farmer........born New York,
I couldn't make out the writing on the microfilm
Emma..................30 years...................born New York
Josephine............. 6 years...................born Michigan
Ellior.....male........3 months..................born Michigan
census date 30 June 1860
Call No. 317.3 UN3 Micro Copy No.M653, Roll no. 561
The subject of this biography was the second in order of birth in the parental family, and was born in Burlington, Calhoun County, Michigan 18 July 1839. He was reared on a farm and was early engaged in assisting his father in the duties appertaining thereto, while acquiring an education in the public schools in the neighborhood, and has been a resident of Union Township, with little interruption, since he came to it with his parents, in 1840.
Too much cannot be said in memory of the brave men who, taking their lives in their hands, went forth in the hour of their country's need, to assist in maintaining those right and principles upon which our glorious Republic is based. History is replete with their deeds of heroism and daring, their endurance of inconceivable toil and privation, and yet the half has never been old. Innumberable deeds of valor, equal to the most daring of those recorded, were performed time and again by many soldiers whose names we have never learned, indeed the whole struggle abounds in heroic exploits of our Northern sons. Prompt at the call of duty, Mr Olmsted enlisted in the army, 9 December 1862, in Company C, 2nd Battalion, 17th United States Infantry, and served three years. At Spottsylvania Court House he was struck in the right leg by a minnie ball, and was so seriously wounded that he was confined to the hospital at Philadelphia for nine months, and very nearly lost his life. Upon his recovery he again shouldered his rifle. He had been previously slightly wounded at Laurel Hill, where he had his gun shot out of his hand. He was also in the engagement at Portland Harbor, and participated in the capture of twenty-seven privates. After earning for himself a good war records, remaining as long as his services were needed, he was discharged in New York City, and returned to his home in Union Township.
Our subject was united in marriage, in Burlington, Michigan, with Miss Alice E Burnett, who is a native of Ohio, and their family consisted of three children: Eddie B. and Frank P., now deceased, and Nirum P.
Mr Olmsted now owns a farm of eighty-three acres, which was the old family homestead, and he has supplied it with substantial and commondious buildings suitable for the successful procecution of his calling. He has made good improvements on his farm, bringing it to a high state of cultivation, and has a pleasant outlook for the remainder of this days. Our subject is a member of Corbin Post No. 88, and is also a member of the United Workmen. In politics he is a Republican, and is a man of liberal and decided view, discreet in forming an opinion and firm in maintaining it.
Taken from "Portrait and Biographical Album of Branch County, Michigan", Chapman
Bros., and no publishing date..... Call letters: Gc 977.401 B73p. I researched this book at the Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana.
If you would like to write to Josie, you will reach her at the following address:
Jo Garzelloni
P.O. Box 64
Burr Oak, Michigan 49030
phone 616-489-2918
70 through 75 from the family files of Jo Garzelloni [ top of page]