Le Montage de Famille
1880-1889
The decade beginning 1880 finds two known vector families living
in Europe, i.e., Lindstrom and Westurlund. By mid-decade
Charles Albert Lindstrom had immigrated to the USA.
In USA:
- Castner: The Edward and Franky Castner family was
in Ovid, Clinton County, Michigan, at the beginning of the decade but had
moved to a farm outside of St. Johns, Clinton County, by the time daughter
Maud Annabel Castner was born. She would be the future first wife of
Charles Orlando Page, son of Riley Preston and Sarah M. (Keyes) Page. Yula,
Ed and Franky’s last of three children, was born toward the end of the
decade, shortly after which the family moved to Lansing in Ingham County.
- Bliss: Calvin Bliss would serve his last three-and-a-half
of his five terms in the Virginia State Legislature representing the Thirtieth
District (Amelia, Cumberland and Prince Edward counties). His mid-decade
visit to friends and relative in Clyde, New York, was mentioned in a local
paper. He would live the short remainder of his life at Farmville. Sidney
Bliss’s family started the decade living on their farm three miles south
of Albion. Mid-decade Sidney built a house on West Elm Street in Albion,
where he took his family yet kept the farm.
- Shaw: The James Ransler and Elizabeth (Watts) Shaw
family was in Ithaca, Richland County, Wisconsin, at decade’s beginning. At
that time James Watts Shaw was a laborer living at Belle Fourche, Mandan
(Lawrence) County, Dakota Territory (South Dakota), but by mid-decade he married
Carrie May Dow at Richland Center, Richland County She was a daughter of
the late Henry Smith and Harriet Melissa (Bush) Dow, formerly of Ithaca.
Both of Carrie’s parents had passed away, her father during the Civil War
and her mother just a few years before the marriage to James. Vernon Henry
Shaw was born at decade’s end. Vernon would be the future first husband of
Pearl (Van)Dyke in Wisconsin; of Anita in Indiana; and of Laura “Grace”
Rice in Michigan.
- Rice: The Benjamin and Mary (Knight) Rice family
was living in Comings, Alcona County, Michigan, at the beginning of the
decade, though Silas was not living with them. Silas B. Rice married
Ella A. Carpenter at Flint, Genesee County, Michigan, within a couple
of years. She was a daughter of Stephen and Eliza A. Carpenter of
Marathon, Lapeer County, Michigan. (Stephen was born in Canada of parents
who were born in Vermont, and Eliza was born in New York of parents born
in Canada.) Silas and Ella would have their first three children in
Oakland County, Michigan, during this decade. Just a couple of months before
their marriage, Silas B. Rice and “Allie” Carpenter were witnesses to
the marriage of Silas’s older brother Elmer Justin Rice at Commerce,
Oakland County. Elmer and Silas were said to be from Pontiac [Oakland
County] and Allie from Lapeer. The bride, Eudora L. “Dora” Smith, was
from Commerce.
- Barnes: The David and Mary (Hood) Barnes family
was living on its 200-acre farm in Hanover Township, Jackson County,
Michigan. In the last month of the decade’s last year, David and Mary
purchased their retirement home at 130 Baldwin Street in Horton, not far
from the family farm.
- Tuttle: The Tuttle family was living in Dexter
Township, Washtenaw County, Michigan, at least until mid-decade, when
their last child was born.
- Page: Riley and Sarah (Keys) Page were divorced by
decade’s end.
- Garrett: Hugh, Jr. and Mary Elizabeth (Thurlow) Garrett’s
family was in Tittabawassee, Saginaw County, Michigan. Mary died near the beginning
of the decade, and a year later Hugh, Jr. married Mary Cordelia (Chamberlain)
Barnes, widow of Howard Barnes of Midland County. Hugh and Mary were
married by J. H. Lewis, Minister. Witnesses were Miss. Cynthia Chamberlain
and James A. Chamberlain, both of Midland County, Michigan. Hugh purchased
80 acres of swampy farmland in Ingersoll Township, Midland County, in the
mid-1880s, and then sold 40 of the acres to his son Hugh III and 40 to son
Samuel. Samuel’s portion later was folded into the 480-acre Garrett Farm
Corporation and was listed in the book “Michigan's Centennial Family Farm
Heritage,” by Mary L Wermuth, 369 pages, c 1986.
- Lindstrom: Charles Albert Lindstrom, son of John and
Margaret Johnna (Johnson) Lindstrom, arrived in America in 1885. He
settled in Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota, and became a fireman.
Charles was born in Slattakra, Halland, Sweden, and at first claimed his
parents were born in Germany, later changing it to Sweden for both.
© 2012 Charles W. Paige.
Last updated: Monday January 23, 2012
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