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Daniel Easton (Josiah) was probably born between 1791 and
1800, because his entry on
the 1840 census was recorded in the column entitled “of forty and under fifty” UN9. The obituary for his son, William R.P. Easton, stated that
William relocated to an area near Detroit, Michigan from New York when he was
twelve DE19, which indicates that the Easton family
moved in 1834. On October 20,
1835, Daniel Easton purchased 328.96 acres of land in Wayne County GE4, so this Daniel Easton is certainly the
Daniel from Sumpter, Michigan in 1840, as indicated on the census record.
Incidentally, there were only thirty-seven heads of households in Sumpter
Township at that time.
Daniel Easton was
listed as a Highway Commissioner for Huron Township in Wayne County in 1835,
and was probably the brother of Ziba L. Easton, who was an Assessor for Huron
Township in 1832 FA3,
SE3. Sumpter Township
was created from a portion of Huron Township in 1840, and in that year, Daniel
was listed as a Sumpter Township Justice of the Peace for a term of three years
FA3. He was also an Assessor in 1840 and 1841
FA3. Daniel was likely related to Enos Easton
(his father’s will listed Enos as a brother of Daniel SE3), who served as a School Inspector in
1841 for Sumpter Township FA3. In
1841, Daniel was also an Overseer of the Poor FA3. He was re-elected as a Justice of the
Peace for another three-year term in 1843 and was also chosen to be the
Treasurer and a Poor Director FA3.
Another relative appeared in the list of officials in 1843: Josiah Easton was a
constable FA3.
Daniel, along with
all of his siblings, was ordered to travel to Seneca Falls, New York to appear
before John Morgan, surrogate for Seneca County on March 8, 1845, to attend the
probate of his father’s will SE4. An
advertisement alerting them to this appeared in the Albany Argus, a
newspaper for Albany, New York, over a period of six weeks, beginning in
January SE4. Whether he was aware of this directive
is unknown. Daniel was the treasurer for Sumpter Township again in 1844 through
1848 but did not appear in any official position after that year FA3. There were no individuals with the
Easton surname in Sumpter Township in 1850. Combined with his absence in the
1850 census, this is indicative that in all probability he died in 1848 or
1849. Daniel was the father of “Luybe Honey”, whose death record stated that
she was born about 1834 in New York to Daniel Easton, and died in February 1888
in Ypsilanti, Washtenaw County, Michigan MI4.
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1820
US Census: lived in Junius, Seneca County, New York with two boys under ten
years of age, one girl between ten and sixteen, one man and one young woman between
sixteen and twenty-six, and one woman older than forty-five.
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1830
US Census: lived in Groveland, Livingston County, New York with two boys under
five years old, two boys and one girl between five and nine years, one boy age
ten to fourteen, one man who was twenty to twenty-nine, one woman age thirty to
thirty-nine, and one woman between fifty and fifty-nine.
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1840
US Census: lived in Sumpter Township, Wayne County, Michigan with one girl
under the age of five, one boy and two girls between five and nine years old,
one boy between ten and fourteen, one young man and one young woman between
fifteen and nineteen, two men between twenty and twenty-nine, and one woman
between forty and forty-nine.
Lesbe Van Wey was
also called “Lesbia” UN12 and was
born in New York about the year 1798 UN12
or 1800 UN11. She was listed as “Lisbie Van Wey” on the
April 22, 1901 Van Buren County, Michigan death certificate for her son,
Pulaski Easton, and as “Lezbe” Easton on the death record for her son,
Sylvester G. Easton MI4, but a
copy of Sylvester’s death certificate, issued by Van Buren County, Michigan,
stated that his mother’s name was “Lezlie” Easton. Lesbe (or Lezbe) was the mother of Sylvester
G., Josiah, William R.P., Jennette D., Pulaski, Enos, Lezbe, Sarah Ann, and
Lorette MI25.
According
to his age at the time of his death as stated on his death certificate, Sylvester Easton was born on or about
February 24, 1818 in New York. Josiah
Easton UN10 (or Joseph UN13)
was born about 1818 UN13, 1820 UN10, or 1821 UN11 in New York UN10, UN11, UN13, and married Alvira UN10, UN11, UN13 in or before 1850, when they were
enumerated together in Ypsilanti, Washtenaw County, Michigan UN10. They lived in Hartford, Van Buren
County, Michigan in 1860, when in that census year their eldest child, Francis,
was ten UN11. Two of their children were named
Daniel and Lezba UN11. “Joseph” and Alvira Easton lived in
Richland County, Dakota Territory in 1880 UN13. He probably died before 1900, when in that year Alvira was
called a widow who lived with her daughter and son-in-law, Libba A. and William
Gilbert, in Torch Lake, Antrim County, Michigan UN14.
William R.P. Easton was born on January 27, 1822 in Seneca County, New York DE19. William R.P. Easton, aged twenty-five of Oshtemo, married Huldah
Waldruff on June 24, 1847 in “the village of Kalamazoo” in Kalamazoo County,
Michigan MI2. His obituary stated that he married
Huldah Waldorff on June 24, 1847 DE19. His Van Buren County, Michigan death certificate stated that he was born
in New York on January 27, 1822 to “Daniall Easton” and “Elizafath”, who were
also both born in New York, and died at age eighty-two on September 18, 1904 in
Hartford, Van Buren County, Michigan.
Jennette D. Easton was born about 1823 UN12, 1824 UN11,
or 1825 MI2 in New York UN11, UN12 and married Lewis Wesemann MI25. The record of their marriage stated
“Miss Genette Easton aged 19 years” married Lewis Wesemann, who was
twenty-nine, on March 30, 1844 in Wayne County, Michigan; Enos Easton was a
witness to the ceremony MI2.
Jenette/Jinnette D. and Lewis Weseman/Wesemann lived in Van Buren, Wayne
County, Michigan in 1860 and 1870 UN11, UN12. In 1860, Jenette’s age was thirty-six and Lewis was forty-six,
but in 1870, Jinnette D. was forty-seven and Lewis was thirty-seven UN11, UN12. Their children in 1870 were Fanny,
aged ten, and Ernest, who was four UN12. There is a possibility that both Jennette and Lewis died after
August 1871 (when they were mentioned in a petition to the probate judge of Van
Buren County MI25) but by the time of the 1880 US Census,
as in that year fifteen-year-old Ernest Wesemann was enumerated with his sister
and brother-in-law, Fanny and John White, in Maple River, Emmet County,
Michigan UN13.
The
Van Buren County, Michigan
death certificate for Pulaski Easton
stated that he was born to Daniel Easton and Lisbie Van Wey, who were both born
in New York, and he died at age seventy-four years, eleven months, and nine
days on April 22, 1901 in Hartford, Van Buren County, Michigan. This indicates
that he was probably born on or about May 13, 1826. “Palaski
Eastimon” married Sarah Carleton on the “28th day of Aple
AD 1857” in Marshall, Calhoun County, Michigan MI2. They were
probably married on April 28, 1857. His obituary stated that he was born on May 12, 1826 in New
York, and moved to Hartford, Van Buren County in 1845 where “in a dense
wilderness [he] built a log house” AN16. He joined the gold rush in California from about 1848 to 1851,
then lived in New York before he returned to Michigan AN16.
Enos Easton was born about 1830
in New York UN10, UN12, UN13 or in January 1830 UN14. Enos married Ruth in or by the year 1850, when in that census
year they were enumerated with the family of Daniel Easton and “Mrs. L.” Easton
in Ypsilanti, Washtenaw County, Michigan UN10. Enos and Ruth Easton
lived in Hartford, Van Buren County, Michigan in 1860, 1870, and 1880 UN11, UN12, UN13. He was a widower who had been married
twice by the time of the 1900 US Census, when he lived in Winchester, Riverside
County, California UN14.
He was mentioned in the obituary of his brother, William R.P. Easton, whom he
survived DE19. At the time of his brother’s death in
September 1904, he resided in Los Angeles, California DE19. Enos was called a “pioneer resident of
Crown Valley” who died in the home of “Mrs. J. H. Funk” at Fruitvale in the San
Jacinto Valley in California PI11.
Mrs. J.H. Funk was his daughter, Emagene H. Funk, the wife of James H. Funk,
who was enumerated just before Enos in the 1900 US Census. “Emma Gene” Easton
of Hartford, Van Buren County married James H. Funk on September 14, 1884 in
Watervliet, Berrien County, Michigan MI8.
Fruitvale Avenue is located in Hemet, just east of Winchester. A gravestone for
Enos and Ruth Easton located in San Jacinto Valley Cemetery in San Jacinto,
Riverside County, California stated that he was born on January 10, 1930 and
died on February 13, 1910, and Ruth was born on March 17, 1827 and died on
April 20, 1898 (a photo of this gravestone can be located on the Find a Grave website).
Lisba Easton UN10 (“Lezebe” UN12 or
“Lisbie” UN11) was born about 1833 in New York UN10, UN11, UN12. Lezbe
married Thomas Honey MI25
probably sometime before 1860. Lisbie and Thomas “Henry” and their one-year-old
son, William H., lived in Ypsilanti, Washtenaw County, Michigan next to
Elizabeth and Sarah A. Easton in 1860 UN11,
and “Lezebe” and Thomas Honey lived in Ypsilianti in 1870 UN12. Lezbe Honey, the daughter of Daniel Easton, died of paralysis
on February 18, 1888 at age fifty-four in Ypsilanti, Washtenaw County, Michigan
MI3. A gravestone located at Highland Cemetery in Ypsilanti
indicated that Lezbe Honey was born in 1832 and died in 1888, and Thomas Honey
was born in 1837 and died in 1891 (a photo of the gravestone can be found on
the Find a Grave website).
Sarah Ann Easton was born about 1835 UN11, UN12, UN13 or 1836 UN10 in Michigan UN10, UN11, UN12, UN13. Sarah A. Easton and
sixty-year-old Elizabeth, who was probably her mother, lived next to Lisbie and
Thomas “Henry” in Ypsilanti, Washtenaw County, Michigan in 1860 UN11. She was called a
seamstress in 1860 UN11. Sarah
Ann married Warren Spalding MI25,
and in 1870 Sarah A. and Warren Spaulding were enumerated in Hartford, Van
Buren County, Michigan UN12.
They were the parents of at least four children, Zara, Willard, Olta, and
Freddie Spaulding, who died in infancy from 1868 until 1875 in Hartford, Van
Buren County, Michigan MI4.
Sarah and “War” Spaulding were enumerated near “Joseph” and Alvira Easton in
Richland County, Dakota Territory in 1880 UN13.
This “Joseph” Easton was born about 1818 in New York UN13, and may have been Sarah’s eldest brother or another relation.
According to the inscription on her gravestone, which is located in Fairmount
Cemetery in Richland County, North Dakota, Sarah A. Spaulding was born on April
18, 1835 and died on September 7, 1894 (the photo of her gravestone can be located
on the Find a Grave website).
Lorette Easton was born about 1839 UN10 or 1840 UN12 in
Michigan UN10, UN12. She lived in Ypsilanti, Washtenaw
County, Michigan in 1850 UN10,
and she may have been the Lorette Easton, age seventeen of Ypsilanti, who
married Robert Hart in Wayne County, Michigan on December 2, 1855 MI2. In 1860, Loretta E. Easton (not Loretta “Hart”), age
twenty-one, was enumerated with her three-year-old daughter, Gertrude A. Hart,
in Van Buren, Wayne County, Michigan UN11.
Sometime after 1860, Lorette married William R. Mills MI25. Loretta A. Mills and William R. Mills lived in the Town of
Hartford, Van Buren County, Michigan with Lesbia Easton in 1870 UN12. A thirteen-year-old girl named Adella G. was listed with the
Mills family UN12, and this was
probably Gertrude A. Hart. The next child listed was seven-year-old Henry UN12. The death record for Loretta A. Mills stated that she was born
in Michigan to Daniel and Leslie Easton and died at age thirty-four on February
12, 1873 in Hartford, Van Buren County, Michigan from a condition called
“scroffula”; scrofula is an inflammation of the cervical lymph nodes, and can be
caused by tuberculosis MI3.
Loretta Mills died the day after the death of her two-day-old daughter, Viola
Mills MI3.
An entry for the Easton family,
enumerated in Ypsilanti, Washtenaw
County,
Michigan during the 1850 census, was confusing, because it stated that Daniel
Easton was a hatter who was thirty-five years old and born in New York. Living
with Daniel was “Mrs. J.”, age fifty-three, also born in New York. Other family
members who were born in New York were Josiah, born about 1820, Alvira, who was
Josiah’s wife, born about 1830, Enos, Ruth, who was the wife of Enos, born about 1826, and Lisba, born
about 1833 UN10. Family members who were born in Michigan
were Sarah A., born about 1836, and Lorette, born about 1839 UN10. The Easton
household of fifteen also included Sarah Briggs, Harriet Looke, Parmelia
Rundels, John Paxton, Francis Easton, who was six months old, and Susan Lake,
in that order UN10.
She may have been
“Elizabeth” Easton, age sixty, when she was enumerated in 1860 with Sarah A.
Easton; they lived in Ypsilanti, Washtenaw County, next door to her son-in-law
and daughter, Thomas and Lisbie “Henry” UN11. As “Lesbia Eston”, she resided with the family of her son-in-law and
daughter, Dr. William R. Mills and Loretta A. Mills, at the time of the 1870
census UN12. On August 7, 1871, Lesbe’s son, Enos Easton filed a Petition for
the Appointment of Guardian in Van Buren County, which stated MI25:
To
the Probate Court for the County of Van Buren
The
Petition of Enos Easton of the Township of Hartford in the County of Van Buren
and state of Michigan. respectfully shows that he is a resedent of said County
of Van Buren and is thirty years of age and upwards. further that he is the son
of Lezbe Easton who is now and has been for upwards of five years past a
resedent of said County of Van Buren
And
Your Petitioner further shows that the said Lezbe Easton is now possessed and
is the owner of personal property in said County of the Value of one thousand
and Four Hundred Dollars, further that she the said Lezbe, the mother of your
Petitioner is now aged Seventy Three years and upwards. and that owing to her
extreme old age she is mentally incompetant to have the charge and management
of her property.
Your
Petitioner further shews unto this Honorable Court that the said Lezbe the
mother of Your Petitioner has lost her memory, and fails frequently to
recognize her own children, and is now and has been for some time past utterly
incapable of managing her own business affairs. and from even taking proper
care of her own person, and now requires the constant watch and attention of
your Petitioners and others for her proper safety
Your
Petitioner therefore prays that Mortimor Boynton of Hartford in said County or
some other suitable person may be appointed guardian of the said Lezbe Easton
of her person and Estate. and such for the relief may be granted, and
proceedings had as are by the statutes of this state in such case made and
provided. and your Petitioner will ever pray & @
Dated
August 7th 1871
Enos
Easton
Two weeks later on August
21, 1871, Pulaski Easton stated in a petition to the probate judge for Van
Buren County that he was a son of Lezbe Easton, and that she died in Hartford
on Saturday, August 20, 1871, leaving no will and testament MI25. Pulaski stated that upon her death, she was possessed of
personal estate which had the estimated sum of $1500 MI25. Pulaski named the children Lezbe in this petition: “Josiah
Easton. William R P Easton, Pulaski Easton your petitioner, Enos Easton…
Sylvester G. Easton deceased. Jennette D wif of Lewis Wesemann Lezbe wif of
Thomas Honey Sarah Ann wif of Warren Spalding and Lorette wif of William R
Mills” MI25. A gravestone etched with the initials “L.E.”
in large lettering, but with no other information, is located at the Easton
plot in the Hartford Cemetery.
According to J.R. Mallory, Lesbie was the
daughter of John Van Wey and Sarah Dense MA12, but this
information has not yet been verified. J.R. Mallory stated that John Van Wey
was born on February 21, 1775 in Holland, and he married Sarah Dense, who was
born on September 24, 1778 MA12. Their children were Lesbie, who was born on June 1,
1798, Mary Dense, born on September 11, 1799, Charles, born on May 2, 1801,
John M., born on December 9, 1802, Richard S., born on January 18, 1805, Eliza
C., born on January 3, 1808, Grace G., born on January 24, 1810, an unnamed
infant who was born on January 14, 1812, and Sarah, born on September 16, 1813 MA12. After John Van Wey died, Sarah remarried to a man with
the surname of Horton, and they were the parents of John Horton, who was born
on May 4, 1816
MA12. Sarah (Dense) Horton died at age ninety-four MA12. Mr. Mallory also stated that Lesbie Van Wey married
Daniel Easton, who manufactured buckskin mittens in Ypsilanti, Michigan, and
that Lesbie’s sister, Mary Dense Van Wey, married John Galloup, and they
resided in Lodi, Seneca County, New York MA12. Lodi is twenty-eight
miles south of Junius, where Daniel Easton was
enumerated in 1840.
The 1850, 1860, and
1870 census records stated that Joseph (not John) Galloup, a shoemaker born
about 1795 or 1796 in New York City, lived in Lodi, Seneca County, New York,
with Mary Galloup, who was born about 1800, 1801, or 1802 in Schuyler County,
New York. In the census years of 1850 and 1870, Sarah Horton resided with the
Galloup family, and she was born about 1779 or 1781 in New Jersey or New York.
She was ninety-one years old in 1870.
·
1860 US Census: lived in Ypsilanti, Washtenaw County,
Michigan.
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1870 US Census: lived in the Town of Hartford, Van Buren
County, Michigan.