FAMILIES OF THE PICKFORD AREA |
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Mary D'Arcy was a widow in Harrison, Ontario, with seven children: Benjamin, Abraham, Wellington, Letitia, Mary, Elizabeth, and William. Her husband had been a farmer weekdays, but Sundays were given to riding horseback to several Methodist churches to preach as a layman. He was of French Huguenot descent. For various reasons, his name usually became Dorsey or Darsey to his neighbors. He died while the children were quite young.
BENJAMIN, the eldest boy, came to Michigan in 1885, to file a homestead claim, located one mile south and two miles east of Stirlingville. Mother D'Arcy came later with ABRAHAM, WELLINGTON, and daughter, LETITIA. The boys walked the three miles to Stirlingville School. Mary D'Arcy's fortune consisted of two bushel baskets of hand-knit and hand-spun mitts and socks - - a woodsman's necessities, readily salable. BENJAMIN met Mrs. Walter Campbell's sister, Jenny Martin, and they married and settled on the homestead. Jenny taught music. She played the Methodist Church organ at Stirlingville for many years. Later she played for the Mission Methodist Church at Fairview. This couple was childless. Their two huge black dogs, Bandy and Jeff, were their companions. After evening devotions, the dogs were called in, sitting and howling in tune as Jenny played. Today, a hunting cabin occupies the homestead.
The three married children in Canada came to Michigan too. MARY and John Reading came, but later went to Algonquin. ELIZABETH and William Love came and later returned to a hardware business in Ontario. WILLIAM and Jenny stayed several years near Pickford. Jenny taught music and many of the oldsters of Pickford learned their first scales from her. LETITIA married Robert Gray.
McGowan Dunbar was born on November 4, 1863, at Bellgrave, Ontario, son of Joseph Dunbar who emigrated from Scotland and on March 9, 1848, had mariied Susan Blackstock in Norval Church in Halton County. They came to Huron County in 1856 and in 1858 settled on Lot 41, Concession 6 (East) Wawanosh Township. Joseph was named tax collector, after the first council was elected in East Wawanosh in 1867. They had four sons and three daughters: Joseph, David, Sarah, Margaret, Annie, John, and McGowan.
McGowan Dunbar came to this area in the 1880's at the time the McDonalds and Mcl)owells came over. McGowan homesteaded two miles north and six miles west of Pickfotd, where Roy Reich now lives. McGowan married Margaret Mitchell in Sault Ste. Marie and the ceremony was performed by Rev. Easterday in 1890. Their family consisted of three daughters: Myrtle, born May, 1891; Irene, born Sept., 1893; and Edna, born Jan., 1896. McCowan and his wife, Margaret, homesteaded on the farm until their deaths. Margaret died in 1937 and McGowan Dunbar died in October, 1947.
MYRTLE married Wilford Harrison and lived three miles west of Pickford. Their children were Edna, Opal, Everett, and Mac. Edna married Dick Sweeney and had a family of six children: Connie (Mrs. Dale McConkey), Sharon, Mike, John, and James (twins), and Patricia who is at home. Connie has four children: Beth, Bobby, Brian, and Carol*. Sharon has two children, Billy and Susie*.
Mike has one son, David*. Jack and his wife, Kathy (Newell), have one daughter. Opal married Rudy Sherlund and has five children: Rosemary, Beverly, Russell, Lyle, and Gloria. Rosemary is married to Mark McPherson. Everett married Beatrice Lamoreaux and has four children: Ronald, Sheila, Cindy, and Joe. Sheila is married to John Williams, Jr., and Ronald married Donne Sterling. Mac married Loreen Rye and has four children: Charles, Steven, Gary, and Brenda. MYRTLE Harrison died in December, 1947 and Wilford died in July, 1953.
IRENE married Everett York and moved to Lakewood, California, and has two children, Jim, and Margaret.
EDNA married Roy Reich in 1929 and they lived on her father's homestead. They had no children and Edna died in 1959.
John Dunbar, McGowan's brother, came from Canada five years after McGowan. John married Emma Brundson and they lived on the P Line, one-half mile south of McGowan. They had four girls and one boy: FERNE (Mrs. Roe), LAURA (Mrs. Ford Moore), ROSELLA (Mrs. BillWelket), HAZEL, and ERNEST. The Walkers had two girls and two boys: Emma, Phyllis, Bob, and Bill. HAZEL married Stuart Howsen and has no children. ERNEST married Mildren Sterns and has four girls and five boys. ERNEST lives in Escanaba where he operates the Livestock Auction Ram.
In the year 1878, Joseph Eveleigh and his wife, Mary Ann (Cross), and seven children came to this vicinity from Chesley, Ontario. Mr. Eveleigh homesteaded 160 acres of land in the Stirlingville area. They had a family of twelve, five children being born in the United States.
Their oldest son, ROBERT, bought a farm next to theirs. JOHN had the homestead deed to his father's property which was signed by President Grover Cleveland on June 20, 1885.
Joseph Eveleigh was a millwright by trade. Their first home was of logs hewn from timber off this homestead and was hauled from the woods by a team of oxen owned by Mr. Campbell, The roof of this cabin was made of hollow basswood logs overlapping each other.
Shortly after settling here, the Eveleighs operated a store on the farm. They had to travel to Sault Ste. Marie by sailboat for suppiies, often being delayed waiting for a favorable wind. The boat would then be tied up on the Munuscong River at what was known as Eveleigh's Landing. Then the supplies were transported by a horse hitched to a jumper and unloaded at the store.
Eight of their children lived to adulthood. Five of them died of diphtheria - - two younger ones dying the same night. DANIEL moved to the Sault and lived thete until his death. JOHN stayed on the farm for 81 years before selling it in 1959. He moved to Pickford and lived there until his death in March, 1961. DANIEL lived on a farm at Stirlingville and had three children. Wesley married Grace Walker and he worked for the State Highway Department.They lived in St. Ignace and had no children. DANIEL died in 1971. Hazel married Kenneth Weston and they live at Stirlingville. He works for the Department of Natural Resources. They have three children. Jimmy is in the Navy and has two children. Willis married Terry Kelly and they live in Fairview. He works at the Cedarville Quarry and they have one son. Marion married Ronald Edgerly and they live near Sault Ste. Marie and have three children.
ROBERT Eveleigh married Rose Kelly and they had one son, Vern, and four daughters: Beatrice (Mrs. Clarence Creen), Margaret (Mrs. Harvey Campbell), Doris (Mrs. Ray Hoornstra), and Erma (Mrs. Stanley McKee). ROBERT died in 1946 and Rose in July, 1972. Vern lives in Pickford with his wife, Virge (Crawford). He worked for the Chippewa County Road Commission for 38 years before retiring. They had three children: Robert, Kathleen and Donna. Robert married Edna Williams from Iron River, who taught in Pickford. They live in Lansing where he works as manager of the service department of International Harvest Trucks. They have six children: Fred, who graduated from Alma College in June, 1971; David who graduated from high school in June, 1971; Randy, who graduated from high school in 1972; Jerry; Patricia; and Steven*. Kathleen married Norris Poirrier from Rudyard in Dec., 1947, and they lived in Lansing for a then came back to Rudyard and lived there untilÄ May, 1970. They now live in Bridgman and have two children: Mike at college in Benton Harbor and Sheri in high school*. Donna married James W. Stevenson of Pickford in Dec., 1950, and they lived in Sault Ste. Marie until 1956 when he became Assistant Manager of Gambels in Owosso. They now live in Bluffton, Indiana, where he is the Gambles dealer. They have five children. Jimmy* is married and lives in Bluffton. Danny* lives at home and works at the Corning Plant. Sheila, Marty, and Jill* are still in school.Beatrice Eveleigh Green lived on a farm east of Pickford until 1966 when they retited and moved to Pickford. Beatrice died in June, 1968, They had three children. Pauline martied Richard Wentz and they live in Chesaning. They had two girls, Ronita and Patricia*. Jean married Larry Reed and they live in Holt. They have two children, Paggy and Steven*. Raymond married Sandy Brown from Grand Rapids where they live. They have one daughter.
Margaret married Harvey Campbell (deceased in 1967). They had five children. Edith married Eugene Bushey and they live in Mt. Pleasant with their three children, Richard, Rodney, and Margo*. Olive married Morgan Wickman and they live in Southgate. They have four children: Norma, Sharon, Berniece, and Marjorie*. Audrey married Merle Terolli and they live in Owosso. Their daughters, Dorothy, Nora, and Doris Kay*, are all at home. Dorothy married Richard Jase of Shelby, Ohio. They had two children, Paula and Craig*. Dorothy died1962 and the childrenlive with their father in Shelby, Ohio. Robert married Ella Bohman from Shelby, Ohio. They live in Taylor, Michigan, where he works for the Corps of Engineers. They have two children, Valerie and Bruce Roger".
Doris Eveleigh married Raymond Hoornstra of Brimley, He works for the County Road Commission and they have no children.
Erma Eveleigh married Stanley McKee. He works for the State Highway Department. They have one son, James. He married Marge Horvath of Chicago where they live and have one daughter, Laura Jean*.
Elisha and Sarah Ann (Taylor) Fountain came to Goetzville in the 1870's with their five children: George, Sarah Jane, Hannah, Elilis, and Andrew. They had lived in Nova Scotia, then in Harrison, Ontario before coming to Goetzville.
GEORGE, father of James H., filed a homestead claim on the farm that is now the Hank place. SARAH JANE became Mrs. Huffman. HANNAH became Mrs. Hunter. ELILIS married WilliamWahl. ANDREW married Elizabeth Gordon of St. Joseph Island. To this union were born 12 children, 3 dying in infancy: Margaret, Sarah, James, David, Roy, Thomas, Isabell, George, and Harvey.
ANDREW came to Goetzville in the 1870's at the age of 23. He helped to survey all the territory including DeTour, Raber, and Goetzville. He tells of being lost in this vast territory for three days, coming out at some lumber camp many miles from home. He was one of the first settlers in Goetzville. His wife's parents, Thomas and Margaret (Wilson) Gordon, came to Canada from Ireland. He and Elizabeth were married in 1885. The homestead at Goetzville proved to be stony - - the stones were used to build fences. In spite of large gardens and orchard, Andrew's money earned as a longshoreman and his mother's by boarding teachers and teamsters, drought and grasshoppers ruined the crops. They cut and baled wild hay from the Sunshine area to feed their stock at Goetzville.
So Andrew decided to move where the land was good and crops would grow. His kind, hardworking wife found it a grievous task to pull up roots now that her family was almost reaching adulthood. The muddy roads of Sunshine are well remembered by all that must travel them. Margaret married Charles Scales. James, Roy, George, and Harvey bought and cleared farms for themselves. They pooled their resources and helped one another get established. Sarah married William Holmes, James married Ellen Rapson, and Isabell married Joseph Cryderman. All were married in the summer of 1916. Roy, Thomas, and David were in the service during World War I. After the war, David married Viola Vasiere, Roy married Ethel Gray, and Thomas married Zada Larder. A few years later, George married Lucille Hillock and Harvey married Grace Huyck. When ANDREW and Elizabeth celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary, they had 40 grandchildren.
Today, Harvey's son, Roger, now lives on the original Andrew Fountain farm. Raymond, James' son, lives on the James Fountain farm; Harvey lived at Rockview until his death in July, 1972 as do his son, Robert, and daughter Harvetta. Roy's widow and son, Oren, and daughter, Shirley, live in Pickford. Seven of the family are deceased: James, David, Sarah, Roy, Thomas, George, and Harvey. Belle lives at Salt Point and Margaret in Sault Ste. Marie. The children's families have scattered.
Martin and Elizabeth Galer came over from Germany to Canada and settled in Brussels, Ontario had eight children: Maggie, Kate, Mary Lizzie, Annie, Conrad, John, Henry, and Wiliam. Martin Galer died in 1933 and Elizabeth Galer in 1943.
CONRAD left Canada and came to Mackinac County and settled on a farm three-quarters of mile west of Pickford. On March 31, 1880, he married Ellen Wonnacott. They had six children: Fred (deceased); Annie (Mrs. Percy Allen); Kate (Mrs. Bert MacDonald, deceased); Conrad (deceased); Minnie (deceased); and Lizabelle (Mrs. Russell Allen).
Fred married Pearl Caldwell They had five children: Verna (Mrs. William Watson); Murial (Mrs. Wilmer Lawson); Lavonne (Mrs. Raymond Winnimakii); Joyce (Mrs. Nelson Holt), and who married Mona Grabens. They live in Colorado and have three children: Bradley Steven, Michael Francis, and Lisa Kay*. Mrs. Pearl Galer died in the spring of 1972.
Annie married Percy Allen. They had two girls, Etta (Mrs. Howard Leedle) and June (Mrs. Stewart Veltema).
Kate married Bert MacDonald. They had five children: Edwin, Marvin, Gertrude, James, and Jay (deceased).
Lizabelle married Russell Allen. They had four children: Janel (Mrs. Douglas Batho), Delores (Mrs.Alex Cottle), Belva (Mrs. Clayton Ball), and Roger.
Conrad married Izetta Wise. They had three children: Willis F., Merlin C., and Connie E. Willis married Olive Roe and they had two children: Rodney and Linda (Mrs. Davld D. Thompson)". Merlin married Lorraine Cottle and they have four children: Sheila, Dana, Douglas, and Jeri Lynn* married Ronald P. VanLuven and they have two children, Noel Rene and Michael Paul*. Conrad operated the last blacksmith shop in Pickford until his death in 1960. He apprenticed under Adam and 0. S. Roe of Pickford. During his earlier years in blacksmith work, when he started in business for himself, he took his tools and forge in back of a trailer and went through the country from farm to farm, doing horse-shoeing and repairing farm machinery. Later, he built a small shop in his garage and did a little lighter work there until his illness and death in July, 1960. The building still stands behind the house where Mrs. Galer lives.
William Henry Gough, Sr., was united in marriage with Fannie C. Hewitt of Huron County, Ontario (near Goderich). His family was from Northern Ireland. He was one of the counsels of Howick Township and trustee of the school there which was called the Gough School. It was built in 1857, one mile west of Fordwich, Ontario. The Goughs came to Pickford in 1877, one month before their son, William, arrived. They were among the first settlers to locate here. William Henry, Sr., died in 1901 and Mrs. Gough in 1916, They had six children: George, William Henry, James, Mary, Jennie and Mrs. Frank Barber of Cheboygan.
WILLIAM HENRY GOUGH, JR., was born May 4, 1857. He left his home in Huron County on the steamer Manitoba on June 18, 1877. He landed in Sault Ste. Marie on a Saturday and walked out to Donaldson to the home of James Crawford (brother of Sandy), with whom William Henry had attended school in Canada.
He and several other early settlers had left Canada for Chippewa County to acquire land at low prices. They homesteaded land here, acquiring 160 acres for an outlay of only $18. William Henry bought 160 acres and later acquired 160 acres more for a total of 320 acres. This land was later burned over and there was little timber.
He was married in 1885 to Mary Ann Taylor, who had come here with her family in 1882. Her father Patrick Taylor and her mother Jane Allison. Her father came from Arnprior, Ontario, and mother from Hacksborough, Ontario. Patrick Taylor settled where Clifford Taylor farmed. John Kronemeyer now operates this farm. Patrick died in 1884, leaving a wife and eight children, after having built a house at Pickford. These were the parents of the Taylor family which has had a leading part in the life of Pickford. Patrick Taylor's house was built of hand-hewn logs.
Mr. Gough used to guide prospective settlers looking for land and he abo worked in the woods during winters earning $13 per month which was the going wage for good sawers: He worked for Murray and Shortread who had a camp about four miles southeast of Pickford.
Mr. and Mrs. Gough had ten children. Henry Taylor Gough (deceased) married Mary Smith. He farmed, then had a carriage livery on Mackinac Island. It is now owned by a grandson, William Gough*, a professor at Lake Superior State College. Lyla (Mrs. Albert Tate) is deceased. Edna (Mrs. Jack MacInnis) is also deceased. Helen was a secretary in Chicago and Pickford and is now retited and living in Pickford. George (deceased) was a butter maker and later worked at the Union Carbide plant for many years before it closed. Jack was a creamery manager for many years and also worked in refrigeration installation and repair. He married Cora Beacom (deceased). Mildren married Worden Rowse, and he was a teacher. They are both deceased. Fred, a farmer, married Lillian Dorst (deceased), and later married Reba (Grennell) Hickman and now lives in Grand Rapids. Thelma (Mrs. Howard Adams) lives south of Pickford. WILLIAM HENRY, JR. died in 1942 and Mrs. Gough in 1952. Frank of Pickford married Hazel (Brown) Jones. A son, George married Ethel Armstrong.
GEORGE went to Chicago after coming to Michigan.
JAMES married Ellen Raynard. They had one son, Glen, and two daughters, Beatrice and Ethel. Glen married Mildred Jacobson and they have two children. Twila works as a nurse at War Memorial Hospital. Terry is a math teacher at Rudyard High School and also head foatball coach. He married Janet Nash and they have 5 children. Beatrice married William Sanderson (deceased September 1972) and lives north of Pickford. They had one son, William, Jr., and four daughters, Lorraine, Lyndell (deceased), Donna and Norma. Ethel married Rollie Hill (deceased) and had a son, Rollie, Jr., and a Arleen (Mrs. Leonard Hillock).
MARY died at the home of her sister, Jennie. JENNIE, a teacher, married Ftank House and lived all her married life at Whitefish Point. They had two sons, George and Harry, and five daughters: Irma, Margaret, Janice, Irene and Gladys. Mr and Mrs. House, harry and George are buried at Whitefish Point.
Mr. and Mrs. William Graham, with their three children, Emma, Georgina, and James, settled three miles north of Pickford about 1880. A brother, James, and a sister; Mrs. Robert Bawks, had come in 1879. Mr. Graham died in 1912 and Mrs. Graham in 1930, Mrs. Graham's parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Smith, with a granddaughter, Lottie (Mrs. Hugh McDonald), came over a few years later and settled four miles north and two miles west of Pickford.
In addition to the three children that the Grahams brought with them Garfield, Victoria, Isabelle, Mary Violet (Lottie), Elsie, and Otto were born in Pickford.
EMMA married Thomas Sanderson and settled north of Pickford. They had one daughter and three sons. Their son, William, and grandson, William, Jr., farmed in the Pickford area. Mts. Sanderson died in 1959 and William, Sr. in September 1972.
GEORGINA married Fred Atkinson and settled in Sault Ste. Marie. They had seven children. She died in 1932.
JAMES married Alta Rich and moved to Belding, Michigan, where he died in 1954.
GARFIELD married Orivia Roe. They had two children, Helen and Clayton. Helen (Mrs. Merlin Lyons) lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and had two sons and four grandchildren. Clayton married Rita McCarthy. They have no children and live in Flint, Michigan. Garfield farmed on the south half of the original homestead until after Olivia's death in 1921. Then for a number of years, he carried mail between Pickford and Sault Ste. Marie. He then worked for the State Highway Department and Chippewa Road Commission, a position he held until his death in December, 1949. In 1929 Garfield married Hannah Follis, a teacher. They had two children, Illa Mae and James. Illa Mae married Jack Nettleton and lives in Pickford. They have one son, James married Velma Ames and lives in Flushing, Michigan. They have three children: Jeffery, Lisa, and Steven.
VICTORIA (deceased) married Ernest Booth and had two children.
ISABELLE married John Haugh and had one son, Spencer. She died in 1966.
MARY VIOLET married Judson McKenzie. She had one son and seven daughters, all living. Elda (Mrs. Elliott Cottle) and Merle (Mrs. Charles Wilson) are the only ones in Pickford. A number of years after Judson McKenzie's death, she married a brother-in-law, David Batho. After his death, she made her home with her daughter, Merle, for a few years prior to her death in 1962.
ELSIE (Mrs. David Batho) died in 1948. She had eight children. William David was killed in Africa during World War II. Isabelle (Mrs. Lloyd McDonald) is deceased. Wilna (Mrs. Melbourne McDonald) lives in Rudyard. Beatrice (Mrs. Eldred Rye) lives in Pickford. Janice (Mrs. Mervin Lockhart) lives in Pickford. Shirley (Mrs. Clifford Harrison) lives in Pickford. (Mrs. Wayne Storey) and Phyllis (Mrs. Orries Huyck) live in Pickford also.
OTTO married Eva Jane Rye and they had three children: Duane, Chalta, and Raeone. Duane married Kathleen Taylor and has five boys. He is Registrar at Lake Supetior State College in Sault Ste. Marie. Chalta married Lamar Hillock and they live in Ohio. Their children are Nyla, Christine, Nolan and Myron. Raeone married James Robbins and lives in Pellston. They have three children: Scott, Betsy Jo, and Mark. OTTO remained on the home farm until 1931 when he moved to town and carried mail between Pickford and Sault Ste. Marie until 1946. He then worked for the County Road Commission until his death in 1958. He was the Pickford Township Clerk from 1922 until his death. Eva died in 1967.
Thomas Gray, Sr., and wife, Mary, came to Michigan in 1881. They owned a dairy farm in Rawdon, Quebec. He left Canada because the public schools had closed. Arriving in Sault Ste. Marie, he found property could be bought cheap. The boat crews and lumberjacks were filling the streets and drinking and fighting were the favorite pastimes. It was not to the liking of a man hunting a home for himself, his wife, and ten children. He then went to Jolly's Landing on the boat, Northern Belle, and proceeded on foot to his wife's cousin's home in Stalwart - - the Reynolds and O'Brien families he knew in Canada. Thomas then filed a homestead claim on a piece of land on the Sand Ridge and sent for his wife and ten children, The children ranged in age from 5-year-old Edward to 25-year-old Mary plus James, Andrew, Robert, Thomas, Jr., Anna, George, Elizabeth, and Jane. The stay on the homestead was of three years' duration - they found a better location at Stirlingville and bought a tract of land from James Hill (railroad people) at Stirlingville. The new home was quickly built of logs and was besides that of Mother Gray's brother, Gabriel Kerr. A spring of water was handy, a navigable river close by, a school and Presbyterian Church under construction, and also land the boys might buy. Thomas Gray, Sr., had the misfortune to lose his arm in a shake mill while making shakes for his roof. How his grandchildren enjoyed the shakes used as toboggans in winter! About 1891 Thomas, Sr., died. He had established a cemetery on his land for his family. It was high and dry, he said. He was the first to be buried in it. Three days after his funeral, his only granddaughter, Mary (ROBERT's daughter), was buried beside him. ELIZABETH GRAY HILL was interred soon after.
JAMES, ANDREW, and ROBERT settled close to the homestead. THOMAS, JR., took over the home place at his father's death. The young Gray adults soon began to marry and established their own homes. MARY became Mrs. William Wiggins. JAMES married Cassie Daley.
ANDREW married Kathleen Walker. They had one son, Earl, who died in 1917. Later, he went to Oregon and married a widow with six children.
ROBERT married Letitia D'Arcy. They had eight children. Two boys and three girls are deceased. Edna Gray Lakenen lives in Hazel Park. Ethel Gray Fountain lives in Pickford, as did Ada Gray Sweeney until her death in July, 1972. Lula Gray Wahl lives in Sault Ste. Marie. Robert Gray was the Stirlingville postmaster from 1910 until 1916.
THOMAS, JR., married Almina Tripp. They had nine children. Merle Gray Massey lives in Detroit. Ruby Gray Rader lives on the Pickford Road. Myttle Gray Barnes lives in Fibre. Evelyn Gray Kiernan lives in California. Hazel, Mary (Minnie), Charles, Henry, and Anna are deceased.
ANNA married Nelson Wiggins and went to the Dakotas to live.
GEORGE didn't like Michigan winters, so he went to Oregon.
ELIZABETH married Alexander Hill and went to live on their farm nearby.
JANE married David Mulle, and taking her mother with her, went to Oregon to, live. Mary Gray never returned to Michigan, but died at Jane's home at the age of 96.
EDWARD GRAY married Bertha Dodds and they had six children. Elsie Gray Townsend lives in Port Huron; Earl and Ervin in Pickford; Erma Gray Nelson and Cora Oulette in Sault Ste. Matie; Delia is deceased and Earl is at home. Today Bertha Gray and son, Earl, ate the only Grays residing in the Stirlingville area.
William James Green was born in Goderich, Ontario, on April 25, 1859. At the age of 23 he was advised by his doctor to go to Minnesota for his health. He had tuberculosis. During his two years there he was cured and met and married Barbara Glassen. They were married on November 11, 1885, at Fishers, Minnesota.
In 1886 he bought 160 acres of land from his father, George Green. This land was located two and one-half miles southeast of Pickford on the Munuscong River, now known as the Harry Wilson place. He cleared his farm in the summer and worked in the woods in the winter near Hessel. The Greens had four sons, RUSSELL, HOWARD, FREDERICK, and CLARENCE. CLARENCE is the only member still living.
n 1914 the Greens sold their farm and moved to town. They built a new home which is now the Frank Nixon home. Mr. Green had a sister, Mrs. Dave Beacom, and a brother, Fred Green, living in Pickford. His father, George Green, spent his later years with Mrs. Beacom, living to the age of 96. James Green was one of the first members of the Agricultural Fair Society. He was a member of the Pickford Methodist Church. After he moved to Pickford, he was janitor of the Pickford School and also for the Methodist Church.
CLARENCE married Beatrice Eveleigh and they had three children, Pauline, Jean, and Raymond, who are all married and living in Lower Michigan. They lived on a farm one mile east of Pickford until his retirement, when they sold to Leo Nettleton and moved to town. Beatrice died in June, 1968. Later Clarence married a sister of Beatrice, Mrs. Margaret Campbell. They spend their winters in Florida and summers in Pickford.