Michigan historical collections . h promise of more to come)of much value to the relatives. After a sketch of her Michigan life,she closes by saying: I kept my family with me until they becamemen and women and neither of my five boys, to my knowledge, haveever used liquor or tobacco, and all have good homes and she fulfilled her purpose formed when my father died and keptthe family together until she saw them all married and gone and avillage of five hundred population built up on the old farm and namedafter our family, and then went to live with her oldest daughter inplain sight
Michigan historical collections . h promise of more to come)of much value to the relatives. After a sketch of her Michigan life,she closes by saying: I kept my family with me until they becamemen and women and neither of my five boys, to my knowledge, haveever used liquor or tobacco, and all have good homes and she fulfilled her purpose formed when my father died and keptthe family together until she saw them all married and gone and avillage of five hundred population built up on the old farm and namedafter our family, and then went to live with her oldest daughter inplain sight of her old home, where she died at the remarkable age ofeighty-three, considering all the labors, trials and hardships she hadgone through in a new country. Neither my father or my mother everunited with any church organization, but I believe they were Christianpeople, believing and doing to others as they would have others do tothem, and died as they had lived, in the full belief that all mankindwould be ultimately saved. ^^
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