. History of Ingham and Eaton counties, Michigan . ar having been Barnum, whose birthplace Massachusetts, was oneof the early pioneers of his adopted township, and activelyidenti6ed with its first settlement. To them were bornfour children, none of whom now survive. Two of these MKS .JOHN W. WELCH. children were twins, making the third generation of twins,—a remarkable phenomenon. Mrs. Barnum was on June20, 1860, left a widow, and in 1863 married Mr. JohnW. Welch, of Vermont, who was the son of John andEmily Esther Welch, and born in 1827, in Vermont. Hislife from boyhood was one
. History of Ingham and Eaton counties, Michigan . ar having been Barnum, whose birthplace Massachusetts, was oneof the early pioneers of his adopted township, and activelyidenti6ed with its first settlement. To them were bornfour children, none of whom now survive. Two of these MKS .JOHN W. WELCH. children were twins, making the third generation of twins,—a remarkable phenomenon. Mrs. Barnum was on June20, 1860, left a widow, and in 1863 married Mr. JohnW. Welch, of Vermont, who was the son of John andEmily Esther Welch, and born in 1827, in Vermont. Hislife from boyhood was one of toil and hardship, with littleto brighten the path of rugged labor. On his arrival inMichigan he spent .several years in the pine-woods. Oneson blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Welch, who is stillliving. Mrs. Welch is an active member of the Methodist Epis-copal Church, and manifests the same zeal in her relig-ious duties which she observes in her domestic is generous and hospitable, a kind neighbor, and a mostuseful SUNFIELD. 515
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