. History of Ingham and Eaton counties, Michigan . MRS. .VLONZO PROCTOR. and hired by the month, remaining there about two his parents removed to Niagara Co., N. Y.,where he joined them, but only to stay one year, goingthence to Illinois, and for some six years kept up this roam-ing life, visiting different States, finally meeting liis parentsin Michigan, to which they had removed in 183G, locatingfirst in Stockbridge township, afterwards selling and buyingwhere Alonzo now lives. Here the father died in 8, 1847, Alonzo married Sarah Qugins, whowho was also a na
. History of Ingham and Eaton counties, Michigan . MRS. .VLONZO PROCTOR. and hired by the month, remaining there about two his parents removed to Niagara Co., N. Y.,where he joined them, but only to stay one year, goingthence to Illinois, and for some six years kept up this roam-ing life, visiting different States, finally meeting liis parentsin Michigan, to which they had removed in 183G, locatingfirst in Stockbridge township, afterwards selling and buyingwhere Alonzo now lives. Here the father died in 8, 1847, Alonzo married Sarah Qugins, whowho was also a native of Vermont, where she was born July. MERIDIAN. 289 31, 1830, her mother being a native of the same State, andher father of Canada, the family consisting of four chil-dren, Sarah being the second. They came to Michigan in1830, where the parents both died, the mother in 1844 andthe father in 1847. To Mr. and Mrs. Proctor were born ten children, ofwhom seven are living: Asa M., born Sept. 7, 1844, nowmarried, his farm adjoining his fathers; Myrta H., boraJan. 2, 1858; Fred L., born June 28, 18G0 ; Jennie M.,born Oct. 17, 1862; Mira Bell, born April 20, 1866;Normal A., born April 24,1869 ; and John D., born , 1872. Mr. Proctor has always followed farming. His first pur-chase contained forty acres, which he bought of the gov- ernment, and which his son now owns. His farm nowcontains seventy acres. In politics he was formerly a Whig; latterly he has beena Republican, and he has been chosen by his fellow-towns-men to fill different offices of trust. His farm lies on the Gravel Road, some five miles fromLansing. He has ten
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