Sieur Charles de Langlade

Augustin Grignon's recollections included the following regarding his grandfather, Sieur Charles de Langlade:

Also Braddock Fort Cumberland Information

Flora (Kennedy) McDonald

Allan Kennedy of Rib Lake, Wisconsin, sister's obit in Glengarry News (1-19-1923):

Mrs. Alex McDonald

On January 2nd, the grim reaper, with his sickle keen, again paid a visit to our midst, taking for his prey, one of our oldest and most highly-respected residents in the person of Mrs. Alex B. McDonald, relect of the late Alex B. McDonald of lot 34-1st con. Kenyon.  Her maiden name was Flora Kennedy, a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Allan Kennedy of the township of *Charlottenburgh where she was born 82 years ago. (*See 1851 Census for Charlottenburgh, Glengarry, Ontario, Canada, with a 10 year old Flora Kennedy)

Her husband predeceased her some eight years ago. Four sons and two daughters survive her, Allan of Portland, Ore., Duncan of Potlach, Idaho; Alex., Silver Centre, Ont., Dan, at home, the Misses Mary of Montreal and Christena at home.  She also leaves three step-children, Angus of Boise, Idaho; Hugh of Medford, Wis., and Katie, at home, twelve grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Besides her immediate family, she leaves one sister, Mrs. Angus Kennedy of Lochiel, and a brother, Mr. Allan Kennedy of Rib Lake, Wisconsin.

Obit of Mrs. Kennedy's brother, Finlay

David Carr's Probate

Wayne County, Michigan

Probate File# 3846

Image 107

David Carr

Died: 29 July 1864

Trempealeau County, Wisconsin notary

Petition of Cynthia Carr

Two Minor Children (Bella Carr and David Carr)

Cynthia's father-in-law, John Carr

Creditors/Claimants

Census 1860

Van Buren, Wayne, Michigan, United States

Household Role Sex Age Birthplace

David Carr Male 39 Scotland

Cyntha Ann Carr Female 33 Michigan

Bella B Carr Female 4 Michigan

David Carr Male 2 Michigan

J Wright Male 21 Pennsylvania

Jacob Bowers Male 23 Michigan

Margaret Aldrich Female 18 Scotland

Mary A Barnard Female 13 New York

Michigan, County Marriages

Name David Carr

Event Type Marriage

Event Date 13 Jan 1848

Event Place Van Buren, Wayne, Michigan

Birth Year (Estimated) 1822

Spouse's Name Cynthia Ann Jewett

Spouse's Birth Year (Estimated) 1829

Source

David Tower's (Father Of Charles Tower, Probate Included)

Name: David Tower

Probate Date: 2 Feb 1855

Probate Place: Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA

Inferred Death Year: Abt 1855

Inferred Death Place: Wisconsin, USA

Case Number: 60

Kenosha Newspaper Notice 20 June 1853
Petition of Louisa M. Scowton, praying for letters of administration (Estate of David Tower)

Wisconsin, Wills and Probate Records, 1800-1987
Name: Charles Tower
Probate Date: 25 Oct 1856
Probate Place: Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA
Inferred Death Year: Abt 1856
Inferred Death Place: Wisconsin, USA
Case Number: 115

David Tower's widow, Louisa M. Tower, in Ohio Charles Tower, guardian file (age 16 as of 12? April 1856

25 Oct 1856 guardian sale of property
David Tower died intestate 18 January 1843, at Wheatland, Kenosha, Wisconsin
William Dyer was guardian
Hugh McLaughlin and Louisa Tower, sureties

A Respectful Look At Henry Dodge

"For two centuries the family of Tristram Dodge, who landed on Block Island (off Rhode Island) in 1661, prospered from its instinct of migration. Its trail winds throughout the land, marked by Indian wars, exploits in frontier settlements, and a decoration for Israel Dodge from General George Washington for heroic action in the Battle of Brandywine. The record gained new strength with Henry Dodge, born to Israel and his wife, Nancy Ann Hunter, six years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence."

Vincennes, Indiana (early settlement where Moses Henry lived)

"The date was October 12, 1782, and he was the first white child born in what is now Indiana. An Indian chief of the Piankeshaw, seeing the baby, threatened to kill him. But Moses Henry, a manufacturer of arms, in whose house Henry Dodge was born, saved him by telling the chief that the child and mother would not stay there but would soon leave for their home in Kentucky. In gratitude, Nancy Ann named her firstborn after their benefactor, Moses Henry.  Eight years later Israel left his wife, son, and six-year-old daughter at Bardstown (where he had built the first stone house and tavern) to seek adventure and fortune in the Spanish country, in what is now Missouri." [Source]

Alexander McDonald To Ashland, Wisconsin

Glengarry (Ontario, Canada) News, published August 5, 1892:

Mr. Alexander McDonald also left the same day Ashland, Wis., to reside there.

Note: Archie Cameron posted at Cameron Collections

Nathan White's Estate

Lapeer County, Michigan
Probate File 106
Nathan White estate
Image 265 Nathan White Estate (also this page) plus more images
Probate Document Date: 22 September 1853
Nathan White died 1 March 1842 in Oneida Co, New York

Truman Tuttle, of Oneida County, New York, maternal uncle (brother-in-law of Nathan White; brother of White's deceased wife) moved to Wisconsin

Nathan's Children
Elizabeth Cornelia White (or Cornelia Elizabeth) (1828-1859) married Warner Wright Goodale
Cordelia White (a mute)
William White (1837 - 18 June 1897); married Sarah Wadsworth in 1860

Lapeer County, Michigan
Deed# A-62 (Image 36)
Nathan and Sophia White, of Lapeer, Territory of Michigan
To
Minor Y. Terrill
Witnesses: J.R. White and Martha White
30 May 1834

Also Deed# A-66

Visited By Colonel Menard And Major Kennerly

Source

Colonel [Pierre] Menard and Major [George Hancock] Kennerly were mentioned above.

Pierre Menard

Nelson W. Clark's Probate

Michigan, Probate Records, Wayne Probate packets:

File 8205

[Image 405]

Frank N. Clark, son, Northville, Michigan
Ettie Bower, daughter, Greenville, Michigan
Bert Root, son of deceased daughter Mary Root, Free Soil, Michigan
Frank Root, "           ", Logansport, Indiana
Harriet Raynale, Detroit, Michigan
Gertrude Church, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Harriet Clark, widow, Northville, Michigan

Dogs Of War?

Source

"...a number of Wisconsin three-months men captured by Forrest in his raid into Memphis.  Many of them had their legs badly lacerated by dogs in their futile efforts to escape." [Source]

An Artilleryman's Diary Noted Lee's Surrender

View Of Chattanooga, Tennessee

Excerpts from An Artilleryman's Diary, by Jenkin Lloyd Jones (Private, 6th Wisconsin Battery):

Chattanooga, Monday, April 10. Wet and muddy day, but no one knew it for we had such good news. 11 A. M. a bit of paper no bigger than my hands was distributed with the words

"Lee has surrendered his army on terms which I dictated."
U. S. Grant.

It was enough.

1 P. M. the cannons spoke in thunder tones. Two hundred guns fired in rapid succession, around us on all sides, which mingled with the huzzahs of troops, reminded me very forcibly of more stirring scenes which I have witnessed. God grant that we may know no more such. How the thought of peace and tranquility throbs in each soldier's breast when he thinks of the home and associates he left so reluctantly to follow the path of duty, soon to be restored to him. No wonder his spirits should be exuberant, aye, even intoxicated with delight. But pen and paper is altogether too tame on such occasions. I'll write no more.

Also see You're In The Army Now blog post

Ezra Tower

From the United States Census Of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War

1890

Private

Co. E

41st Wis Inf

Sept 16, 1864

Sept 23, 1866 [sic?]

2 years, 6 months

See the Tower family in the 1894 census.

Mayor Of Detroit, DeGarmo Jones

Was it a young DeGarmo Jones who participated in the War of 1812 as a drummer boy too?

Mr. Jones was on a list of Detroit's wealthy elite here.

This excerpt illustrates DeGarmo Jones doing business, as wealthy businessmen do:

"In the year 1841, the first mill was erected for working the gypsum deposits, by Warren Granger and Daniel Ball near the place where Plaster Creek crosses the old Grandville road (now Chicago Drive). The land was owned by Mr. Degarmo Jones of Detroit, who had secured 80 acres of this land before 1838, and these men paid Jones rent in plaster delivered by water at Detroit."

From this website, a sale of property by DeGarmo Jones, et al:

DeGarmo Jones sold the NE quarter of the SE quarter of Section 34 T3 R1E containing 40 acres more or less for $100 to Alexander Hamilton Willard Jr 7 Nov 1843 in Iowa County, Wisconsin Territory. 

DeGarmo Jones sold (with Catharine H. Jones, Josiah R. Dorr and Susan M. N. Dorr all of Wayne County, Michigan) the NE quarter of the SE quarter of Section 34 T3 R1E containing forty acres more or less for $100 to Alexander Hamilton Willard Jr 12 Jan 1844 in Iowa County, Wisconsin Territory.

DeGarmo Jones as a defendant.

Native Americans' Encounter With Braddock

Augustin Grignon's recollections included the following regarding his grandfather, Sieur Charles de Langlade and Braddock's Defeat:

Fort du Quesne:

Our Way Down To The Lula Falls

Lula Falls

Excerpts from An Artilleryman's Diary, by Jenkin Lloyd Jones (Private, 6th Wisconsin Battery):

Trail Near Lula Falls

Jim's blog post of the Chattanooga area that included Lula Falls.

Picton Hillyer From Delaware County, Ohio

Michigan Probate Records, 1797-1973  Arenac Probate packets 1883-1900:

Image 4

Picton D. Hillyer, Deceased

Certified Copies From Delaware County, Ohio

Petition of Drayton A. Hillyer of Columbia, Wisconsin

Possessed Of Estate Situated In Arenac County, Michigan

Died: 5 December 1883

Was a resident of Delaware, Delaware, Ohio, at time of death

Widow: Mary Hillyer

*Daughter: Alice Hillyer White, of Cambridge, Massachusetts

Estate Information of Andrew A. Hillyer (Portage, Columbia, Wisconsin) among Documents

Andrew's Heirs: Widow, Nancy; Son Drayton Hillyer

Andrew Died: 27 December 1862

Not part of Picton Hillyer's estate, but the below paragraph pertains to the Nancy Hillyer, widow of Andrew, who was mentioned in Picton's estate, and mother of Drayton, who was also part of Picton's estate in Arenac County, Michigan:

Source

Census 1870

Ohio, United States [Delaware, Delaware]

Picton D Hillyer M 60 Connecticut [Retired Banker]

Mary S Hillyer F 53 Ohio

M Alice Hillyer F 21 Ohio

*(Mary) Alice Hillyer married John Williams White

Eldridge M. Fowler Papers

In Honor Of Fowler's Michigan Connections

Eldridge M. Fowler Papers, 1805-1931 are held at the Wisconsin Historical Society, Library-Archives Division.

Title: Eldridge M. Fowler Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1805-1931

Abstract: Papers documenting the lumber and land-related business activities of Eldridge Fowler, brother of Nettie Fowler McCormick.  His companies included Fowler & Chapman of Bay City, Michigan. He was also president of the St. Anthony Lumber Company in Minnesota, and vice-president of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company.

See a post regarding the death of Eldridge Fowler's son, Melzar Fowler, per an Arenac County, Michigan, probate document.

The British Regime In Wisconsin

Not a complete list....

Source

You're In The Army Now

Excerpts from An Artilleryman's Diary, by Jenkin Lloyd Jones (Private, 6th Wisconsin Battery):

Spring Green, Wis., Thursday, Aug. 14, 1862. I enlisted under Lieutenant Fancher for the 6th Battery, Wisconsin Artillery.

Confluence South Of Cairo, Illinois

Cairo, Ill., Saturday, Aug. 30. We were astir early to catch the first sight of the far-famed city of Cairo (Ill.), and certainly an unhappy surprise we found it; the combined medley of filth and disorder, the streets rough, the sidewalks torn and tattered, rendering it dangerous to travel, lest they should throw one headlong to the ditch.

First European To Live In Wisconsin

Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, Landmark

Seventy-two years' recollections of Wisconsin:

"Augustin Grignon was the last in a long line of French fur-traders that stretched back to Charles de Langlade, the first European to live in Wisconsin."