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running of a sawmill under enemy fire; praises Company I but criticizes officers in general, especially for drunkenness; complains of the manner of filling vacancies among officers. Home and business affairs are discussed. Lowing, from Georgetown, Mich., was wounded in action at Fair Oaks in 1862, but though somewhat crippled as a result, he did not resign until April, 1864.

In a related account of the battle he was wounded in:

HDQRS. THIRD DIVISION, HEINTZELMAN'S CORPS,
Intrenched Camp, near Savage's, June 2, 1862.
SIR: On the 31st ultimo, at 3 p.m., I received an order to send a brigade of my division by the railroad to support Keyes' corps, said to be severely engaged. Birney's brigade was designated, and getting most promptly under arms, advanced accordingly. Captain Hunt, aide to General Heintzelman, arriving from the field, made me aware of the discomfiture of most of Casey's division. The retiring wagons and a dense stream of disorganized fugitives arrived nearly simultaneously. As a precaution I ordered some picked Michigan marksmen and a regiment to proceed and occupy the dense woods bordering on the left of our position to take in flank any pursuers. I, however, soon received General Heintzelman's directions to order forward by the Williamsburg road the remaining brigade, and to retrieve the position the enemy had driven us from. I put myself at the head of the advanced regiment and set forward without delay. I also sent written orders for Jameson's
brigade, camped at the tete-de-pont near Bottom's Bridge (3 miles in rear), to come up without delay. This order met with General Heintzelman's approval.
On arriving at the field of battle we found certain zigzag rifle pits sheltering crowds of men and the enemy firing from abatis and timber in their front. General Casey remarked to me on coming up, "If you will regain our late camp the day will still be ours." I had but the Third Michigan up, but they moved forward with alacrity, dashing into the felled timber, and commenced a desperate but determined contest, heedless of the shell and ball which rained upon them. This regiment, the only one of Berry's brigade not engaged at Williamsburg, at the price of a severe loss, has nearly outvied all competitors. Its work this day was complete.
This regiment (Third Michigan) lost:
Officer killed--Capt. S. A. Judd, Company A.
Officers wounded---Col. S. G. Champlin; Capt. S. G. Lowing, Company I; First Lieut. G.
E. Judd, Company A; First Lieut. S. M. Pelton, Company C; First Lieut. G. W. Dodge,
Company F; First Lieut. A. J. Whitney, Company G; First Lieut. S. Brennan, Company I;
Second Lieut. D.C. Crawford, Company E; Second Lieut. Joseph Mason, Company
G.
Total officers killed and wounded, 10.
Enlisted men killed, 31; wounded, 111; missing, 14.
Total loss, 166.(*)

rktown. William did return and served six months and seven days and participated in the campaign that crushed the English Army and brought the war to a close.

The first payroll on which William Lowing 's name appeared, is dated April 19, 1775, when a body of men was sent to the Connecticut River country on account of an alarm declaring the English were gathering troops for an invasion. The last was for an 18 day campaign to meet the inroads of English and Indians on the Canadian Frontier.

Sec 1: William Lowing - Revolutionary Engagements

Engagements In Which William Lowing Took Part In The Revolution

  1. Battle of Rhode Island, an effort by Colonial troops to raise the siege of Newport - August 29, 1778.
  2. In General Lee's Division at the Battle of Monmouth. Real battle fought January 29, 1778.
  3. With the Rhode Island troops in the winter quarters at Valley Forge, 1777/8, where the condition of their clothing was worse than that of any other troop.
  4. Colonel Angell's Battalion was stationed at Peekskill, NY, August 1777.
  5. The fight at Red Bank on the Jersey side of the Delaware River, October 22, 1777. William Lowing, large for his age, was but 16 years and 6 months old when he enlisted in the Minute Men and 17, when he enlisted for Concord, Lexington "Alarm" march to help save Boston. He was 18 years and one month old when he enlisted in the Rhode Island Militia. He was 19 years and one month old when he enlisted in the Continental Line for 5 years. Following the final plea for troops, enlisted to go South and whip Cornwallis and end the war. He had been married and had two children, when he had served 5 years. He tramped across Massachusetts to join his old comrades and gave six months and seven days more to the service of his country.
  6. At the Battle of Bunker Hill, he was present in Boston and a member of the Uxbridge Minute Men. The troops for the work at Bunker Hill were picked and as William was but seventeen, he was left behind, but in the retreat from Breede's to Bunker Hill, Reed's men, left behind when the big men of experience were picked for the hard work, were brought up to protect the retreat and William was among those marshaled for this service.

William went with Captain Joseph Hatch, who formed a company of rangers for especial services, in August 1776. He received first month's pay and receipted for it. He volunteered for service in the corps organized to resist invasion of New Hampshire (Vermont Territory) by New York. The battle was fought July 12, 1775. He went as Lieutenant on scout duty for 10 days in March 1781 under Captain Eben Martin.

In 1780, Captain Stephen Calkins and twenty-eight men went on an expedition in answer to an Alarm for Rutland County districts, leaving on March 26 and returning after six days service. They were ordered out by Colonel Ebenezer Allen, Isaac Tichnor and Timothy Bronson audited the payroll; William received pay. Joseph Gage, Amos Calvin, William Lowing and Richard Smith were the quartet who stayed the whole campaign. Again, William (7th on the list, went with William Calkins and 24 men, October 20 returning October 25, 1780.

In 1781 he served as private volunteer in the usual fall alarm, from the Canadian frontier, serving under Captain Thomas Bull October.

In 1779, he and a few of "The Green Mountain Boys" joined an expedition, led by Captain Ethan Able, to the Canadian Frontier for two months. William was billeted as Sergeant.

In March 1780, another short campaign on the Canadian Border under Captain Gideon Crosby. In October 1780, another short campaign on the Canadian Frontier under Captain Jacob ODell. He also served under Captain Joshua Stanton and Captain Isaac Tichnor, Officers in the Green Mountain Lane, in an unusual campaign. In these short campaigns, instead of sending out regulars, they permitted volunteers from other sources to serve and this is the reason William served under so many officers.

There were nine days of hard fighting by the Rhode Island boys at Yorktown, but their military rolls were destroyed when the British burned Washington, during the War of 1812. This Yorktown engagement was the last for William and he received a commission as Captain, but this paper was burned, when his home burned years later at Lewis New York.

The preceding data has been verified by annuals of the War Department, Family Bibles and other documents.

Illus 01: 1st RI Continental Regiment Flag

1st Rhode Island Continental Regiment Flag

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Illus 02: 2nd RI Regiment 1781 Flag

2nd Rhode Island Regiment 1781

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Note 1: Battle Of Rhode Island

Battle of RI map; Angell, Israel. Diary of Colonel Israel Angell Commanding the Second Rhode Island Continental Regiment during the American Revolution 1778-1781. Edited by Edward Field. Providence: Preston and Rounds, 1899.

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Ch. 02: William Lowing In Vermont

William Lowing in Vermont

In the fall of 1779, William went "west" to Vermont, which was virgin territory, to look for a home site. He was then 21 years old. About a year after this on December 24 1780, he married Anna Haight. He was 22 and his bride 16. She was the daughter of a strict Quaker, a reader in the Friends Church which served the people of Danby and Tinmouth Townships in Vermont. They were married by a Minister outside of the Quaker faith and when Anna's father was told of it, he protested that no one could be rightfully married outside the Friends ceremony. William then, to placate his father-in-law, took Anna to Danby and they were again married, this time by a Baptist minister, the later date, being December 24, 1780. At his time a certificate was given, which was burned in the Lewis fire. After marriage, William bought a 40 acre tract of land from the original Hensdale allotment. Here he built a log house with barn and out buildings, late in 1780 or early 1781. Mary was born here (2nd child). He sold this place to James Armstrong about 6 months after he returned from the war.

The story of the furniture of this first home, showed William to be a genius. There was little factory made furniture. That brought from England, people would not buy because of its source and the colonists had little money, so they made their own. William selected for theirs a second growth of hickory. When cut, it was straight and of even grain. The greater part of this furniture, was made from one tree. The wood was smooth and white, and even later when it was washed with soap and water, it would take on its original whiteness. For a table he split out slabs about 3 inches thick and dressed them down to two inche s. He made two tables, two beds, stools, benches, and chests to pack things away. These were of cedar. Then he began the harder work of making chairs and bric-a-brac shelves. Two chairs of the Windsor type passed down from son to great grandson, being finally destroyed by descendants who did not appreciate their worth as heirlooms. Both William and his wife were large and these chairs were made to fit them. They were comfortable and had only to be washed and they shown like polished ivory.

Though William had always intended to return to see his mother in Jamaica - the revolution, his marriage and growing family, kept him from doing so and as he never heard from her he supposed that the Captain had reported him as dead. He died in the fall of 1802, leaving a wife and nine children.

Several stories of his death seem to disagree, but the one most agreed upon says that he died of Typhoid fever. He had worked in the Lowlands near the mill, where the swamps with their stagnant water and gasses, caused Malaria laden mists to rise. His home was a fame structure, to be built on a hillside to be out of reach of flood water from the river. The old well is still to be seen and it is within this century (1915) that the last of the fruit trees were cut and burned. The old house was sold and the timbers used in building a house on the main street in Peru, New York.

William had planted many fruit trees after moving to New York State, the scions of which were brought from New Hampshire, and it was from these trees that scions were brought to Michigan later, in 1850, by his two sons Isaac and Stephen. Pearmins, Spitzbergens-Winesaps and large Pippins were the varieties.

Anna Haight Lowing was a big woman- a descendant of Simon Haight who arrived at Salem, on the "Abigail" in 1628. Joseph G. Haight, was a member of the Artillery Company formed by Alexander Hamilton and Samuel and Joseph signed the Declaration, calling for a mass meeting at Deerfield New Hampshire, April 2, 1776, calling for armed resistance to England. Simon Haight was made a Freeman at Dorchester Massachusetts in 1633.

September 13, 1797 William Lowing articled 105 acres of land to Elisha Sherman, for 230, but payment was not made until winter. William remained in possession until fully paid. He then moved to Peru, New York were we find him paying taxes at the fall collection. He with other Quaker families had been invited to make their homes at Peru. Most of the Danby pioneers had come from Rhode Island and these were the families invited to settle at Peru.

The earliest churches were Friends - followed by Congregational and Methodist churches.

Robert Taylor opened a "Select" school and charged $1.50 per pupil for a term of three months, and it was to him that the Lowing children went for their first instruction. The Friends made the trip from Danby, Vermont to Peru, New York, by ox team over very rough roads, just wide enough for an ox team to pass - deep ruts left from the previous summer were now frozen hard. There were few bridges and what there were, of the crudest, while most of the streams had to be forded.

There were few horses in the cavalcade - the majority of the teams were oxen, and in many cases carts took the place of more convenient wagons. Some oxen carried loads on their backs and often when a stream was deeper than usual from the spring freshets,

the wagons had to be carried over on the backs of the oxen -- having been taken apart for the purpose. When all were across, the wagons were assembled and loaded. The people had crossed on trees-felled across the streams.

This trip-by making a bit over ten miles a day, took ten days. Most everyone preferred walking, to bumping over the rough roads. The days progress was slowed by quagmires, where the wagons sunk to deep that other teams had to be used to pull them out. Also the pioneers drove their sheep and cattle, which had to be driven slowly. To most of the children, this trip was a lark, - James, William's oldest son and Mary his eldest daughter, were 16 and 15 respectfully. Deborah was 11 and Santon 9.

Even the 7 year old Susan, remembered parts of the trip. Isaac was 3 years old, and while he walked some, he bounced along on the luggage, mostly. To many of the women, this trip was a hardship. The season was early and some weren't dressed warm enough to stand the exposure of ten days in the open.

After arriving in Peru, William bought 100 acres of land, a short distance from the "Paper City". which people had laid out for the Village. It was well located, and soon north and south, as well as east and west roads were surveyed with a road on each side of his land. The land also abutted the Little Sauble River. William had learned, during the time he was "bound out" to the lumberman, a good deal about the advantages and operations of a saw mill. He erected a saw-mill on this river and also placed in it stones so it could be used as a grist mill.

This mill must have made money, for he soon paid for his 100 acres and bought 156 acres east of his farm. At his death in 1802 (6 years later, he only owed $30,00 [sic] on the mortgage on this 156 acres.

William's mill was the first in Peru, but later a man by the name of Harrington built a saw-mill directly across the small river from it. The nature of the land along the river was such that after Harrington had used his water right there remained 2 feet of water for the Lowing mill, which made the Lowing right more valuable and this mill was free of debt at the time of William's death.

At the first election after he moved to Peru, he as elected assessor, an office he held for six years, or until his death. .

In those days most of the land was unfenced and unbroken and was used for grazing, by the pioneers. Their crops had to be fenced against cattle and these fences were often makeshifts and were easily broken down by cattle. So --"Fence-viewers" were appointed to pass upon what was and what was not a fence. William was made head of the Fence-viewers, on April 2, 1799, which office he held until his death.

In those days a road builder was called a "Path Master". As a road bounded his property on four sides, with a ford crossing one of them and another road leading to his grist mill, he was made Path-master and spent much time keeping the roads in passable condition.

Schools as well as homes were built of logs or rough boards, with few windows and were usually heated by fireplaces. The desks were home made, with backless benches.

There were few schools to a county as there were often not enough children to form a school. Some person, in the district would open a private school in his home, and it was such a school that the Lowing children attended. The early teacher had, little more than a Fifth Grade education. Only a small percentage of settlers could read or write. William had had enough education before leaving Jamaica, to be able to do both. They had no pencils, but used quill pens and ink, made from berries. Few letters were written, but William assisted in making deeds and in their recording.

Men teachers were more successful than women, for the pupils were often big, strapping fellows of seventeen or older, and it was necessary to subdue the pupil before he could be taught. Tales are told of pupils carrying the teacher out and locking him in an outside privy, thereby causing his dismissal. Land was cheap and cultivating it was easier than teaching, so that many good teachers became farmers instead.

There were so few schools in Peru County, that one Board had supervision over the whole county and they were looked to for every means of operating the schools. Money to pay the teachers was the most difficult to find, so that teachers boarded with the families of the children, living a set time with each family. Married men were usually furnished their food and little else. Sometimes no payment except crops.

In 1800, William Lowing, Elisha Arnold, and Elmer Lott, were chosen Peru County School Board. They held this office during the years until William's death.

Ch. 03: Holden Lowing - From New York To Michigan

Holden Lowing - From New York to Michigan

Holden Lowing was the 4th of Isaac and Lavina's children. Born March 19, 1821 at Bloomfield, New York, died March 29, 1900, married September 11, 1851, to Eleanor Chapin Woodruf.

In 1814, when Holden's parents were married, knowing that there was not much opportunity for a young couple in the well settled area around Peru, New York, they drove over 100 miles into the wilderness and began to "chop out" a farm home from the virgin forest. Soon others came and the name East Bloomfield was given to the settlement. They cut the trees, pulled the stumps, built their homes - clearing enough land for crops to feed their oxen, pigs, and cattle, as well as themselves. The first year they cut logs and sold them and shaved shingles, so as to buy food. By the next year they had some of the land cleared.

They lived here for several years and nine children were born here. As the land was poor, after it was cleared - stony and hilly, but a poor living could be secured from it, so Isaac (Holden's father) often worked in the brick yard and made pottery to help out.

Because they must help their parents, the children had little chance for education, perhaps only during the ages of five and ten years.

After Holden came to Michigan and married here, he became active in civic affairs and prospered to some degree, so that each child married, he was able to give him a small start in life. Their children were:

NameNote
Glen Emmet m. Eliza Cheyne
Otis U. m. Edna Gillett
Daniel m. Anna Fairbanks
May Belle m. Charles Waters
Isaac N. m. Lettie E. Willis
Rose m. Charles Wickham
Dora m. Edward Ulberg
William Riley m. Mary Ulberg
John H. m. Clara Ulberg
Eva "Nettie" Annette m. Charles Ladewig
Alice m. George VanWagon
Roy Collins
Aaron Kelley
Edward Greene
Esther B. m. William Engel
Benton born between Glen Emmet and Otis U. died young.

In the fall of 1841, Holden bought a farm for his father Isaac. (The Government had bought up a great amount of cheap timber land along the Grand River Valley and ordered it to be sold for $1.25 an acre, payable in State dues, but warrants could then be purchased at $.40 on the dollar, so that this land cost only $.50 an acre. Money being scarce, it was hard to raise even that amount to pay for land.

It took four years for the money to be raised. In the fall of 1841, two of Isaac's sons came to Michigan. Stephen and his wife and baby Martha, to take up land he had bought in 1836, and Holden, to purchase land for his father, Isaac and later for himself. Holden purchased land a short distance south and west of his brother Stephen, for his father. This land was densely covered with timber, but it had all been surveyed in 1831. In 1835 a state road had been surveyed and staked out, which was to run from

Grandville to Grand Haven. The land of Isaac and later that which he had bought for himself, faced this proposed road.

In the spring of 1842, Isaac, then 48 years old arrived in Michigan. He came alone, by boat around the Lakes, arriving at Grand Haven and coming up the Grand River by steamboat stopping at the landing belonging to his son Stephen. He planned to build a

cabin for his family who were to come the next year. All that summer, he and Holden cut timber and cleared land and built the cabin.

Franklin Bosworth returned in the fall of 1842 and traded his first '0 acres for 80 acres almost across the proposed road from them. While Franklin was building his cabin he lived that winter with Holden and his father.

On October 18, 1845, Lavina, Isaac's wife and two sons, James and Isaac, Jr, and three daughters Mary, Cordelia, and Elizabeth arrived. They came around the Lakes, a trip taking fifteen days. Being so late in the season for Lake travel it was a stormy trip and all were seasick but Mary. The Captain teased her every morning, by asking her if the storm had gotten her supper yet. She was eighteen, and Cordelia, thirteen, while Elizabeth was ten.

At Grand Haven they took the steamboat and came up the river, arriving at Sand Creek at dusk. Here they walked to Stephen's hut, where they decided to stay the night with Ruth and Stephen, rather than cross through the woods and swamps to Isaac. They moved out the furniture and made beds on the floor.

In the middle of the night, Ruth was taken with the pains of childbirth, so the family was awakened and Stephen asked the hired man to taken them over to his father's. Lavina remained to help. The hired man grabbed up some pine knots to burn, to light the way on path and over creeks and marshy places. While crossing a creek on a log, Elizabeth slipped and fell in the creek- the excitement of getting her out of the water, the man dropped his lighted pine knot in the water, so they finished the trip by joining hands and following the man in the dark.

The children never forgot that night trip to their new home in Michigan - especially Elizabeth, who found being soaking wet in the month of October, in the middle of the night, anything but pleasant.

There was always venison and wild meat to eat if one was a hunter, or they could buy of the neighbors. There was maple syrup in the Spring. Wild berries and cranberries were found in the near marshes and cut-over openings. Many people put down pork and pigeons in salt. Bread and pan cakes were made of flour which they had ground at the grist mills, Wild honey was often found. Potatoes, milk, gravy and salt pork was often served, for it was one of the cheapest meals, when money was scarce.

Holden had lived but a short time with Stephen and Ruth, and then found employment in a saw mill. He had purchased 80 acres for his father, south and west of Stephen. This land faced the proposed State road which had been surveyed in 1831. For years he helped survey almost all the farm land in the south part of Georgetown and northern Jamestown.

The first years of Stephen and Ruth's life in Michigan were very difficult - especially in the winters. Stephen had done little to make his first but comfortable The mosquitoes were a great problem and the swampy land gave early pioneers a Malaria which they called ague. Ruth was sick much of the time from this ague. Often there were days when there was but little to eat. To make matters worse, Stephen was away from home most of the lumbering season. He cut and drew logs to the river all winter, hoping to gain a little money be selling his logs in Grand Haven in the Spring, but in the early 1840s, logs generally did not bring in enough money to pay expenses. Usually $5.00 per m. and sometimes less. This sometimes did not pay the man that Stephen hired to help.

This lack of money in logs, gave Stephen the idea of building a sawmill, knowing he could sell boards to settlers, to build their first huts. He built this water mill on the Creek than ran close to his house, only nearer to the river. There was not much force to this creek, so he dammed it and made a small pond, in order to insure a steady stream of water. er[sic] he put up a water wheel to which was attached pails. These pails were filled with water from the race at the top, and the fill pails made a weight and gave impetus which turned the wheel and emptied at the bottom, this force making enough power to turn the saws. Although this mill was not very successful, (they often had to stop and let the mill pond fill up with water, before they could continue) it was still quicker than hauling the logs to Jenison and bringing back the boards. It was used for about three years (1843-1846), by Stephen or any neighbor who needed lumber.

One day Martha, Stephen's little daughter, climbed into one of the pails and her weight started the mill. To keep from being plunged into the w ater, she commenced to climb from pail to pail. One of the men working near the mill heard it running, so hurried to investigate and lifted her out.

Shortly after Ruth (Stephen's wife) came to Michigan, she was left a legacy of $600.00. They were still living in this first but and although $600.00 could have made them more comfortable in their furnishings and living quarters, they used none of it to better this condition. There was a strip of pine very close to Stephen's land, which was one of the finest in the State. This land was being taken up fast. It must have been a hard decision for Ruth to make. To buy 160 acres of Pine for future wealth, instead of using it for herself and the children, who needed it so desperately then. This land was divided. Eighty acres on the west adjoining their home and eighty acres on the east. Forty acres on both sides of the logging road running toward Jenison.

The Quarrel

At one time, Holden Lowing wished to extend the logging road, leading directly north from Hudsonville across his land and asked permission of Stephen to have it cross his land, thereby making a straight road from Hudsonville, north to the Ohio Mills dock on the Grand River. While it would appear to be the sensible thing to do, Stephen refused. Holden was very angry. Years later, Stephen wished this road to go through an began the proper procedure to accomplish it, but Holden was Supervisor at that time and decided Stephen was not to have this road, it he could prevent it. Holden knowing that a road cannot disturb a cemetery, had the southern most part of his land set off as a cemetery and

buried one of the poor charges of the Township on this lot. As this was the southern entrance to the proposed road, Stephen never gained his road. For years that lonely grave was the only one in the cemetery. Later Isaac and Lavina were buried there, but as no suitable market was placed there, the exact location of their graves is not known.

The brothers eventually made up their quarrel and were friends.

Life For Holden

When Holden Lowing - 4th child as well as 4th son was born, it was in a story and a half clapboard house, with a large fireplace at one end, which was used for both heat and cooking. The three older boys slept in aloft, reached by a ladder. There was homemade furniture - a table, chair or two - benches - beds made with woven rope springs. Ticks filled with straw or corn husks, were used for mattresses. His clothes were probably hand woven. The wool or flax was no doubt grown, spun and woven by his mother.

Wolves were very numerous in those days and usually ran in packs. They were never known to attack a person, but often, when one went out for the cattle, in the morning, he found they had been encircled by the wolves at night. When wolves are near, domestic animals will usually herd close together and the wolves will run around them in circles, howling in a weird manner.

Ch. 04: Michigan - Early Villages On Grand River

Early Villages On Grand River

So few people lived along the river in 1836 to 1841, when Stephen arrived for the second time that we will describe these villages, for Stephen became friends with most all these settlers.

Up the river, at Spoonville, was a tribe of 50 or 60 Indians and one or two cabins of white people.

Further up the river was Steele's Landing or what is now known as Lamont. A.D. Yeomans, and Allen Stoddard settled there in 1835, and Ira Maxfield, Lemuel Peaks, T.B. Woodbury and Daniel Angell were all there in 1836 when Stephen Lowing arrived. The first settler was Mr. Burton, who moved down 2 miles from what is now Jenison. (---------

The winter of 1843/4 was one of the hardest that the pioneers ever had to face, in Michigan. It was known as the winter of storms. Snow was so deep that most of the settlers lacked feed for their animals. The hogs that were not killed for food, were turned out to fend for themselves and most of them starved or froze. The men, to save their cattle, cut down cedar trees and dug paths so the animals cold get to them. The cold was so severe that most of the people suffered in their poor shelters, and were sick with the Ague. This cold lasted into April. That spring Isaac and his neighbor, Franklin Bosworth, walked to Ada and bought 2 pigs which were mere skeletons, but the best they could buy. When Isaac arrived home with his, it fell dead from exhaustion.

In 1847 the state road became an actuality. In 1845, a school had been built at Canada Hill, and was called School District No I in Georgetown Township -- Miss Ada Evarts was the first teacher. It was a frame building, costing $112.00 and was built on Section 5. At this time there were only 133 people living in the large territory of Georgetown.

In 1845 the State Road was completed between Grandville and Grand Haven. This road went straight west from Jenison by a corduroy road over the swamp, up what later called Ames Hill, where it angled straight past his father's (Isaac's) and Franklin Bosworth's land, through Bauer and again north and west to Allendale and from there north and west to Robinson and on to Grand Haven.

There was little difference between this State Road and the logging roads that ran into it, for both were poorly constructed and each spring this road was a regular quagmire. The whole country was now interlaced with logging roads, and the State Road was called "Mud Highway" or "Mud Street".

Isaac never gained any wealth - he had been a drinking man all through his New York days and although it was more difficult to acquire it in Georgetown, he still spent money for it when he had a chance to get it. -------

A story is told about Isaac and his younger brother, Stephen, who lived at Center Road Pennsylvania. Stephen visited his brother Isaac, in Georgetown in 1868 and although most of the Lowing were Teetotalers, both Isaac and Stephen liked Liquor. Isaac knew one of his sons had a well stocked cellar, so they decided to visit him. Refusing a horse and buggy, they walked the six miles to the son's house and there they remained until 3 P.M., imbibing freely. They started home- they could only walk by linking arms. As they neared home, they were feeling pretty good and could be heard a half mile down the road, singing and walking rail fence fashion. One of the sons set out to meet them, but they refused help. Most of the relatives thought it funny, and the two old men giggled and chuckled over the fun they had had, all the rest of time they were together.

As Isaac's circumstances improved, he added a few rooms to his 2 room cabin. In this house he lived until his wife died in 1868. He was 74 years old the n and as the children worried about him, living alone, he moved to Holden's where he had a room and good care. Here he died in 1876, having outlived his wife 8 years. His property had been deeded to Holden, and was later given to Holden's son, Daniel.

Isaac left more descendants than any other of William and Anna's children and he was the progenitor of all the Michigan Lowings. He and Lavinia are buried in the cemetery adjoining the Holden Lowing farm, and at the north end of the Georgetown Hill Road. The wooden markers have disappeared so the exact location of the graves is unknown

Ch. 05: Michigan - Georgetown Organized In 1839

Georgetown Organized in 1839.

In 1842 Georgetown added a part of Talmadge, south of the River (T 7 N*R 14) W, which was "set off' to Ottawa Co. Talmadge added part of Georgetown, north of the River. In 1842 the name Kent was changed to Grand Rapids.

Monroe Street follows the trail to Campau's Trading Post, on the bank of Grand River. It kept along the impassable swamp, extending north from the corner of Monroe and Division, then wound along the foot of an abrupt hill from Ottawa to Pearl Street. This hill connected with the now disappearing hill between Pearl and Lyon Streets. - Beyond these hills the trail descended to Bronson Street, South of Monroe, the descent was steep and ground so low as to be deeply covered at high water.

The boat channel of the river was between the Island and the main land and the landing was where the blocks of stores now are on the south side of Monroe Street at the foot of Canal Street west of the foot of Canal Street north of Pearl Street was Mr. Wadsworth's sawmill. From Franklin Everett's Memorials on the Grand River Valley. 1877/8

In 1848 there were 2 houses in Jenisonville. Georgetown Post Office was the first in the Township, on the River - Section 4 as early as 1850 and S.L. Lowing was the first Postmaster. It was moved to Section 9 in 1859. E.F. Bosworth held office from 1862.

Georgetown Grange with 43 charter members and H.C. Lowing as Master - 1875-76-77-78-79-89. W.R. Lowing 1881. At a cost of $900.00 they built a Hall on Section 26 25x60 ft and 18 ft high.

At Haire's Landing sec 8 on Grand River -- Sawmill built in 1856, burned in 1864 and was rebuilt in 1872. They cut 300,000 ft per day. The mill burned again in 1877 and was never rebuilt. On sec 4 about a mile further down the River, S.L. Lowing operated a mill.

H.C. Lowing was one of the 10 charter members of Jenison Lodge inaugurated January 21, 1875. The Lodge room, 22X30 ft was valued at $200.00 with furniture.

E.F. Bosworth, born Washington Co, N.Y. October 28,1818 settled in Vermont - went to Buffalo in 1827. Came to Michigan and in 1843, settled on Section 9 - Georgetown. He was postmaster -- Supervisor and Township clerk. On Sept 27, 1846 he married Mary Jeannette Lowing who was born in Genessee County New York Je 5, 1825.

All along Grand River and the Rapids were Indian trails which the first settlers followed until the land surveyors blazed out the section lines. On the west side of Grand Rapids, was the Council Tree, and all the trails, east, west, south and north led to this place.

The one leading southward along what is now Butterworth Street (now called Road) it wound between the hills to Finniesy and OBrien Lakes to the Indian Village on Sand Creek. It was this trail that Stephen Lowing and Franklin Bosworth followed when they first arrived.

There was a trail that led north from the Council Pine, up River Rouge and far into the Interior. On the east side of the river the Ottawa Trail became the Grandville Road and led to all southwest points. At Bass River it branched to the Pottawatomie Country. Going to the east were many trails. Monroe Avenue started by being a path to the Thornapple River with a branch to Ada. There was also an Indian Trail following around the north of Coldbrook Hill, following the ravines and coming out at Plainfield. The Middleville, Hastings, Battlecreek road was developed from a trail leading in that direction.

Ch. 06: Michigan - Grandville

Grandville

At Grandville, which was settled even before Grand Rapids, Luther Lincoln was the first arrival. He brought five yoke of oxen and was the first man to till any soil in the whole Grand River Valley.

In a letter written to his parents on April 22, 1933, Mr. Linclon says he lives in a town without inhabitants and without a name, in the County of Kent, six miles below the Falls (on the Grand River on the United States Road from Detroit to the mouth of the River.

In about a week he planned to put five yoke of oxen on one plow and "plow as long as it will do to plant". In 1834 there were fourteen families in Grandville, in 1835, four more and in 1836 about seven more. Grandville and GrandRapids were contesting to see which would expand the more. There was an Indian village also, at Grandville.

Across the River from Grand Rapids, was a large Indian Village, where Councils were held for the whole western section of Michigan. A Reverend Slater had an Indian Mission at that Point. Grand Rapids, then, consisted of the Eagle Tavern, 2 mills, a blacksmith's shop and two stores - a real estate office - a doctor's office and a few houses. The streets were deep furrows of mud in wet weather and deep ruts, when fair. The only roads were Indian Trails and most of these led out in all directions from the Council Tree on the west side of the river, at Grand Rapids. Flat River trail was the only route between Grand Rapids and Lowell. DeMarsac and Robinson, at the mouth of the Flat River were the only settlers between Grand Rapids and Ionia.

Michigan, although acting as a State since 1835, was admitted in 1837, Mason was the first Governor. The first Act was to do away with Wildcat Banks.

Ch. 07: Michigan - Georgetown Township

Georgetown Township

Georgetown Township, made up of Jamestown, Zeeland, and Blendon, with most of the inhabitants living in the present Georgetown, was organized in 1839. In April 1840, seven men met at Jenison and held the first Township Meeting.

$100.00 was voted for contingencies and $50.00 for the support of the poor. At the second election in 1841, Hiram Jenison was reelected Supervisor and Burton as Clerk. At the third election, 1843, Jenison again as Supervisor and S.L. Lowing as Clerk. (There is a question as to whether this was Stephen or Holden - County Histories differ on this point.)

1842
Hiram Jenison Supervisor
Lowing (either Stephen or Holden) Clerk
E. F. Bosworth, Hiram Jenison, Justices
H. Jenison, H.C. or Stephen Lowing
1844
H. Jenison, G.M. Barker
1845
H. Jenison, A.A. Scott
1846
A.A. Scott
G.M. Barket, E. F. Bosworth
1847
A.H. Scott, G. W. Brooks
1848
H. Jenison, E. F. Bosworth
1849
H. Jenison, E.F. Bosworth
1850
L.T. Beardsley, E.F. Bosworth
1851
Stephen L. Lowing, W.N. Carr
1852
H. Jenison, E.F. Bosworth
1853
Stephen L. Lowing, E.F. Bosworth
1854
Stephen L. Lowing, A H. Scott
1855
E. F. Bosworth, M. W. Scott
1856
Stephen L. Lowing, E. F. Bosworth
1857
John Haire, E.F. Bos worth
1858
John Haire, E. F. Bosworth
1859
Stephen L. Lowing, E. F. Bosworth
1860
B.K. Weatherwax, E.F. Bosworth
1861
Stephen L. Lowing, J. Tate
1862/
1863
N. Bliss, H.C. Lowing
1864
T.D. Pearson, H.C. Lowing
1865
H.C. Lowing, F.A. Jenison
1866
T.D. Pearson, G. Hubbard
1867
H.D. Weatherwax, G. Hubbard
1868
T.D. Pearson, G. Hubbard
1869
N. Bliss, G. Hubbard
1870
N. Bliss, Alex Wilson
1871
W.W. Weatherwax, A. Kronemeyer
1872
George Weatherwax. A. Kronemeyer
1873
S. Brennan, W.D. Clark
1874
S. Brennan, L. Day
1875
George Weatherwax, H.W. Sweet
1876
H.D. Weatherwax, H.W. Sweet
1877
H.D. Weatherwax, H.W. Sweet
1878
H.D. Weatherwax, A. Scott
1879
H.D. Weatherwax, A. Kronemeyer
1880
H.D. Weatherwax, A. Kronemeyer

After Georgetown Township was organized they voted at Jenison for many years. Until 1847, part of Georgetown extended to the north side of the river and part of Talmadge was on the South side. In 1847, the Legislature straightened this line, so no voter crossed the river to vote. There was often, friendly rivalry between voters on opposite sides of the river. At one tie the southsiders wanted a candidate whom the north siders opposed. Just before the election (1847) the southsiders heard that Talmadge Township had been set off and those voters were to vote in Talmadge Township. For some reason the voters on the north side were not informed of the change in voting place. They arrived at Jenison and first spent time in the saloon, before going to the polls. Here they were informed they were no longer allowed to vote in Georgetown. It was too late to reach the polls in Talmadge before closing time, and the south siders candidate won.

The Daltons and Harrises always held this against Stephen Lowing for not informing them on their arrival.

Georgetown voted at Jenison until 1874 when the Georgetown Grange was organized. They met, for a few years, in homes, and then built the Grange Hall on Section 16. It was then a building 25x60 feet and 18 ft in height, costing about $900.00. The township leased this place as a voting place for 99 years.

Ch. 08: Michigan - Mail And Post Office

Mail and Post Office

Mail was brought into Grandville, as early as January 1833. Mr. Tucker was the first mail carrier, going once a week to Gull Prairie for it. Slater, at Grand Rapids, the Indian Missionary was the first Post Master. Mail was often held up for months before it was called for by busy pioneers. Shortly after he arrived in Michigan, an uncalled for letter was held for Stephen Lowing for months. When the first News Paper was printed in Grand Rapids, on the 18th of April 1837, called the "Grand Rapids Times" Stephen Lowing's name was published as one who had an uncalled-for letter at the Grand Rapids Post Office.

The expense of sending letters from the east to Michigan, was nearly prohibitive. From 1836 to July 1845, the cost of one closely written letter was $.25. The cost of one acre of land was between $.45 and $1.25 in Michigan, so one could not write too many letters. These letters were written on the first, second and third pages, leaving the fourth to fold and seal with wax and then address. The Post Master had no stamps, but wrote the name of the town and cost of sending, in the corner. Often whole families wrote in the letter, to fill every inch of space.

If anyone heard of a person traveling west, they were generally besieged by people to carry letters to their relatives, often walking miles to give the letters to them for delivery. Letters written between 1845 and 1850 cost $.10 and in 1850 the first envelopes appeared, but these still used no Government stamp, only a P.O. stamp the town and date. After 1855, the first stamps appeared and all letters written in the Civil War were placed in envelopes and carried postage stamps.

Post Office

In 1847 the part of Talmadge, on the south side of the river was exchanged for Georgetown, which was on the north side. Stephen's land was all in Georgetown Township. This made his Post Office at Grandville, instead of Bethuel Church's store at Talmadge. In 1850 Stephen was made the first Post Master and the office was in his store. This became such a nuisance, that in 1854 it was moved to the home of Franklin Bosworth on the State Road. He kept this office until the change of administration, when it was moved to Holden Lowing's place.

Post Masters:

1850-1854 S.L. Lowing
1854-1862 E.F. Bosworth
1862-1886 H.C. Lowing
1886-1892 E.F. Bosworth
1892-1900 H.C. Lowing

After this time RFD was established.

Holden was a Democrat and Franklin Bosworth a Republican, so the Post Office was kept between the two families, depending on what party was in power at the time.

When Rural Free Delivery was established, Post Offices in homes were discontinued and Money Order Offices were maintained at Jenison and Hudsonville. There was also a Post Office at Bauer and when men took their milk and cream to the Creamery, they picked up mail for all the families on their milk routes.

The first Post Office at Jension - in 1871, with George Weatherwax as Post Master.

The first Post Office at Hudsonville (Under the name of South Georgetown ) May 1, 1868. Name changed to Hudsonville in 1872. Homer Hudson was first Post Master and John Green the second.

Sec. 01: Letter By Franklin Bosworth In 1841

Letter Written By Franklin Bosworth To His Brother

Bedford November 11th, 1841

Dear Brother;

Knowing that you will be glad to hear from me, I take the opportunity to write to you a few lines. I am in good health and have been ever since I left you.

You have probably heard Jabin tell where he left me. Since that I have not seen anyone who was going to Bethany. I saw Lish Gifford and talked with him some time. He and his family were well. He wanted to see Jabin before he left, but could not.

I traveled alone for two days through a country I should call rather poor, it being sandy oak openings. The third day after I left him, there was a team overtook me, that was going the same way that I was, loaded with goods.

I got the teamster to carry my baggage and I walked along in company with him, and when there was descending ground I could jump on and ride a short distance which helped me much.

I kept in company with him two days and a half. The second day, in the afternoon he got rid of his load and I rode with him seven miles further. That night and the next day I rode with him ten miles more. He then turned off to the south and I went on alone until night.

The country I passed through was some of it very good I should think, but some of it was very sandy and poor. I staid the night at the village of Ada at the mouth of the Thornapple River. Sunday morning I traveled to the village of Grand Rapids where I staid until Monday afternoon. It is a place of considerable importance in the western part of the State, as it has a salt spring and there is also plenty of limestone and plaster within three miles. Monday in the afternoon I went down river to Grandville.

The next morning I found Stephen Lowing and went with him down the river a short distance and then got on board of the steamboat and went down to the mouth of the Grand River to get my deed recorded Left my deed and came back the next day to the place I started on the boat. The following morning I got a young man to go with me to find my land

The land is heavily timbered around there for some distance. I saw some of the tallest pines there that I ever saw. The young fellow that was with me told me that he had heard of their cutting twelve, twelve foot logs from one straight tree. They are so tall that you have to look twice to see the tops of them. There are, however, but very Jew on my land My land is very near level and the timber is of different kinds There you will find beach and maple, oak, ash and hickory of the largest kinds.

I saw white ash and hickory and white oak trees between three and four feet through and from forty to fifty feet without limbs as straight as an arrow.

The soil is of black and sandy loam and in some places the subsoil is of clay. There is a road across near the middle of it where the mail is carried from Grandville to Port Sheldon.

The nearest house is Stephen Lowing's. It is about two miles and a half there. I put my initials on a tree by the side of the road so that I could find it again without tracing the lines and then started for Lowing's house, were we arrived about sundown.

We staid there until morning. He lives in a little but made of logs and covered with boards, with a blanket for a door and window. In the woods about a half a mile from the river, and when I was there he had not a single tree cut, but those he cut to make his house and cow pen.

In the morning I left there and started I knew not where finding no chance for keeping school to any advantage on account of hard times they will not give any more for teaching school there than they do in New York State and then they do not pay sometimes for two or three years and if you should be so lucky as to get it when you have earned it, perhaps you cannot get more than seventy-five cents on a dollar so I thought I would put out for the State and now I must stop my narrative and tell you where you will find me at present.

I am in the Southern part of the Buckeye State within ten miles of the Ohio River in a little log school house where I have been teaching school for three months for twelve dollars per month.

I have found Uncle Jabin and Uncle Hezekiah and a whole host of cousins. They are in the town of Bedford, Meigs County, Ohio. I found Uncle Jabin's house on the second of November about four o'clock in the afternoon.

They live some distance from any village and as there is no store in the neighborhood I did not get any paper so that I could write to you until I went to get examined for teaching school. I began this letter on the eleventh in the forenoon but in the afternoon I went about seven miles into the east part of town to see Uncle Hezekiah's folks and did not get back until Saturday. I commenced school on Monday the fifteenth. 1 am teaching in the district where Uncle Jabin lives today. I am going to go see some cousins that live fifteen miles from here and shall probably find a Post Office to put this letter in.

You must excuse my negligence in not writing before as I have not had an opportunity to send a letter if I had had it written. If you see Samuel Page, tell him that 1 am well and hope that he is the same. I want you should write tome as soon as you get this and send me magazines. No do not send magazines because they may get lost, as I am in a bye place but write me a letter and afterwards send me a paper once in awhile. You may direct yours to Chester, Meigs County, Ohio, that is ten miles from where I am but it is the most convenient place for me to get it. I have directed three papers to you since I left you but could not get time to communicate much as I found it is not often that I could find a moments time to spare. I have written this by pieces just as I could get the time.

I remain your affectionate Brother
//Franklin Bosworth

P. S. Written with shivering fingers in a cold school house.

Ch. 09: Genealogy And Lineage

Geneology and Lineage

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Sec. 01: Lowing

Lowing Lineage

Robert MacLaughn - 1682, of Scotland - a seafaring man and owner of a large fleet of merchant ships, plying between the Irish Sea and the East Indies.

  1. James - 1705 - While on a trip for his father, married an Irish girl and took her with him, but upon their return, stern Presbyterian Robert did not welcome the little Irish Catholic girl and life was very miserable for her during her married life. His youngest son was John.
    1. John - 1732 - wanting to escape the unhappy conditions in his home, and having become part owner with his father, James, went to the island of Jamaica and settled at Kingston, where he married an English woman and there he lived and died in 1775, leaving a son.
      1. James William - 1758, was fifteen years old when his father died, and the Captain of one of the ships wishing to marry the widow and wanting the boy out of the way brought him to America on one of the voyages and indentured him to a man who treated him badly. He finally managed to escape, and in order more easily to avoid recapture, he changed his name to William Laughn, which soon became Lowin - then Lowing as most of the family spell it today.

        William Lowing after three years as a Minute Man and some other time spent in the Army, married December 24, 1780 Anna Haight, supposedly a descendent of Simon Haight, who came in the "Abigail" with his brother-in-law, Nicholas Stowers.

        Probably Anna was the daughter of William Haight - granddaughter of Joseph and Margaret (-----) Haight. She was born at Crum Elbow (Nine Partners), New York, March 10, 1764 and was sixteen years old at the time of her marriage at Tinmouth, Vermont. She died August 23, 1843. They had 13 children. William died in the fall of 1802 after many years in the army.

        1. James
        2. Mary E.
        3. William
        4. Deborah
        5. Stanton
        6. Susanna dearly loved Stephen Lampman's young sister, Lavinia, and when Isaac, her favorite brother visited her, he fell in love with Lavina and they were married in the spring of 1814. Their first home was at East Bloomfield, New York 100 miles west of the old home at Peru.
        7. Eliza
        8. Isaac - born January 28, 1794, at Danby, Vermont and was at Peru, New York in 1797. -died at Georgetown, Michigan in 1876 at 82 - married in the spring of 1814 Lavina Lampman (1796-1868). They had nine children. Two of them were Holden C. and Jeannette.

          Driving an ox team with their few belongings piled high on a cart, they staked out land in the settlement near what is now East Bloomfield. This land was well wooded and the first years were spent in cutting timber, pulling stumps and building their house and barn, and trying to grow enough food for themselves and their stock.

          As the sons grew old enough they were able to help their father. Isaac and his sons were famous mowers and were hired to mow most of the farms throughout the region. They used cradles and several men followed behind to bind.

          Isaac and Lavina had 6 sons and 3 daughters.

          Isaac was not able to give his children much education. They usually went to school between the ages of five and ten and intermittently thereafter.

          1. William R.
          2. Stephen L.
          3. James
          4. Holden C., born March 19, 1821 at East Bloomfield, New York, died March 29, 1900 - married September 11, 1851 Eleanor Chapin Woodruff, born in New York State and moving early with her parents to Michigan, died September 14, 1907. Holden C. Lowing moved with his parents to Georgetown, Michigan, when 13 years old. A few years later he bought timber land and cleared it and had one of the finest apple orchards in the country, having acquired the trees from the old William Lowing farm in Peru, New York and a fine grove of maple trees. They had thirteen children:
            1. Glenn Emmett
            2. Benton H.
            3. Otis U. born April 1, 1857 - Georgetown Township - died October 13, 1908 - married January 17, 1887, Edna, daughter of Mortimer and Amanda (Blackford) Gillette - born at Ashtabula, Ohio. August 8, 1863, died at Grand Rapids, Michigan.
              1. Roy H. born October 7, 1887 - Living 1949 - married January 17, 1913 - Mary, daughter of John Thomas and Nellie (Bosworth) Sheridan - born October 6, 1888 at Allendale, Michigan. Roy was a dairy farmer for many years and sold the business to his son Hugh in 1950.

                They had five children.

                1. Otis U. - b. Grand Rapids, Michigan, married Grace daughter of the Goeslers.
                  1. Holden born at St. Mary's Hospital, Grand Rapids.
                2. Stephen Jay b at St Mary's Hospital, Grand Rapids.
                3. Hugh C. born March 21, 1918 - married October 19, 1938 at Grace Episcopal Church, Grand Rapids. Michigan.
                  1. Bruce Sheridan
                  2. Thomas Hugh
                  3. Richard Jarvis
                4. Wayne born married Lucile Klawiter
                5. Jay Boyd born married Mary Moses
                6. Mary Joyce married October 1, 1948, Jack Klawiter.

                  Thay have three children:

                  1. Craig
                  2. Glenn
                  3. Mark
            4. Daniel M.
            5. May Belle
            6. Isaac N.
            7. Rose
            8. Dora
            9. William R.
            10. John H.
            11. Eva Annette
            12. Alice
            13. Esther B.
          5. Isaac Newton
          6. Mary Jeanette - b (6th child) Je. 5, 1825 at Bethany, NY , d. Je 14, 1903 in Michigan. M. Franklin Edward Bosworth - a descendant of Edward Bosworth who d. on the voyage to America in 1634, leaving wife and children. September 25, 184
            1. Nellie - b. Dec 18, 1861 - d. May 1 19 -m. Dec. 12, 1887 - John Thomas, son of Thomas and Susan Lambert Sheridan - b. April 12, 1862 - d. (Thomas Sheridan - b. 1818 - d. 1891 - was of Chapel Izod - d. Nov 17, 1905. He was at Blanchartown, Feb 13, 1843, Susan Lambert, b 1825 - d. Nov 17 1905. He was a descendant of Rt. Honorable Brinsley Sheridan, M.P. youngest son of Thomas, Esq. and Frances( ---) Sheridan.)
              1. Mary - b. October 6, 1888, at Allendale, Michigan - m. Roy H. Lowing - (see Roy Lowing). Isaac was the Great Grandfather of both Mary and Roy.
          7. Ulysses
          8. Cordelia
          9. Elizabeth
        9. Twin girls (not named)
        10. Stephen
        11. John
        12. Anna

Sec. 02: Haight

Haight Lineage

Simon Hoyt, son of John and Ruth (Stowers) Hoyt, born at Dorchester England January 20, 1590 - died at Stamford Connecticut September 1, 1659, according to the town records. In 1628 he came with his brother-in-law, Nicholas Stowers and the Spragues, in the ship "Abigail" with Governor John Endicott, arriving at Salem Massachusetts September 6, 1628. In the summer of 1629, he went to Charlestown as one of the first settlers, but was at Dorchester in 1650. His name on the records was Simon Hoit.

He removed to Scituate, Massachusetts where his wife joined the church, April 19, 1635. On February 28, 1640, he was granted 80- acres on the west bank of the Connecticut River. He removed to Fairfield Connecticut and bought from John Green, a home lot of three acres, March 6, 1649 and later five more lots, but was at Stamford before his death an the inventory of his estate was taken there.

ARMS: ARGENT., A LION RAMPANT SABLE, A CHIEF PER FESSE INDENTED O THE 1 ST AND 2ND

(CREST: A TOWER GUILE - OUT OF THE BATTLEMENT A DEMI-LION RAMPANT SABLE.)

Descendants of John & Ruth (Stowers) Hoyt

  1. Simon Hoyt (Hoit) married Deborah, daughter of Walter Stowers, at the Parish church at Upway. Children born at Upway Dorset England:
    1. John - born March 12, 1614 died Rye, New York 1684 married Mary xxxx
    2. Walter - born January 3, 1616 died Norwalk, Connecticut 1696.
    3. Thomas Hyat - born September 20, 1618, Died September 9, 1656
    4. Deborah - born August 9, 1620, died Upway January 1628 Nicholas of whom further
    5. Ruth born January 2, 1625
    6. Simon Hoyt (Hoit) remarried Susannah Smith (Second Wife) after coming to America. Susannah survived him and married Robert Bates. She died at Stamford Connecticut 1674. - Children born in New England:

    7. Moses
    8. Joshua born in Windsor Connecticut about 1640 died 1690 - married Mary Bell.
    9. Samuel - born about 1642, died at Stamford April 7, 1720 married 1 st November 16, 1670, Hannah Holley. Married 2nd September 20, 1714 Rececca Gold. Married 3rd Hannah Gold
    10. Benjamin - born February 2, 1644 - died Stamford Conn. Jan 26, 1736 married Jan 5, 1670 Hannah Weed
    11. Mary b xx d xx married Thomas Lyon of Stamford A daughter married Samuel Finch
    12. Miriam m Samuel Firman
    13. Nicholas Hoyt - born Upway November 11, 1622 died Windsor Conn. July 2, 1455 [sic]. Also lived at Hartford. Married June 12 1646 Susanna Joyce.
      1. Samuel Haight - born Windsor, May 1, 1647 - died 1712. He removed to East Chester, Westchester County New York. At one time he lived at Flushing Long Island. He was a Quaker - married Sarah.
        1. Samuel jr. born between 1667-72
        2. Nicholas
        3. Jonathan born 1670/84
        4. David born 1670/90
        5. John
        6. Susanna born before 1684
        7. Sarah born before 1686
        8. Mary born before 1693
        9. Hannah born before 1699
        10. Phoebe born before 1701
      2. Johnathan born June 7 1649
      3. David b April 22, 1651
      4. Daniel born April 10, 1653

Many Haights Active in Political Life

Many of the Haights were Quakers or Friends - Anna retained her friendship for them. When William was a boy in Jamaica, the Friends were active there and his mother had always been friendly toward them.

Anna Haight

Anna was born at Crum Elbow, New York, March 10, 1764 and from there moved with her parents to Tinmouth Vermont. She was the daughter of William, youngest son of Joseph Haight. Her father was a strict orthodox Quaker and owned a farm not far from the meeting house. When the split came between the Liberal young people and the older Orthodox members, Anna joined the liberals, much against her father's anger and the inability to control his own daughter, caused a break in her father's prestige, both in church and community. From the Dissenting members, a Baptist church was formed at Danby.

After William's death, Anna tried to operate the mill and manage the family finances, but James, the eldest son had bought a farm at Tinmouth & Stanton was too young to help. The purchasers of the Harrington Sawmill, tried to buy the Lowing mill with its better water advantages, but their price was so small that she refused to sell.

After this they bribed any help she hired, until there was no one to he lp her - business declined and she was forced to take out a mortgage on the mill. This she could never pay and so lost the property to the owner of the rival mill.

James sold his property to try to help her and so lost his also. Before the year was out, Anna and her family returned to Danby where they owned a small tract of land with a house on it.

Susanna, Deborah and Stephen were married from this house, James Tinmouth. He was of Quaker descent. He lived 17 years after this marriage and died at Lewis, Essex County New York. having married in 1802.

Ten years after William's death, Anna married William Vaughan. After William Vaughan's death Anna visited all her children and finally settled down to live with James at East Gainsville, New York (Now Silver Springs). The home with all its effects at Lewis, was burned and among the things lost was the War record of William. When she applied for a pension, she had to take that of a private, for the commission as Captain was gone. She died August 23, 1845 at East Gainsville, New York.

The children of William and Anna Haight Lowing:

Sec. 03: Lampman

Lampman Lineage

From Cuyler Reynold's History of the Hudson River Valley.

The Lampmans of Coxsackie, Greene County, New York were descended from ancestors from Palatin Germany.

The Emigrant ancestor settled in Greene County at the south of Greene's Hill in the town of Coxsackie.

Stephen Lampman born Greene County about 1760 married and had issue Peter, son of above born about 1760 married and had issue.

John Peter born September 17, 1792 died January 2, 1855 married Abigail King, born November 11, 1795 died January 2, 1882. They removed from King's Hill, some three miles to the eastward, where they settled on a farm.

Obadiah born on the Greene County homestead, upon which his parents settled prior to his birth, May 25, 1818 died at Coxsackie, 1902, married Elizabeth Vandenberg, born November 22, 1817 died October 31, 1890 daughter of Peter Vandenberg. Five children.

It would appear that John Peter could be the brother of Lavina and Stephen who married Susanna Lowing in 1812.

Lavina Lampman married Isaac Lowing 1814.

Rachel Lampman (a descendant of Stephen) born August 26, 1824, died March 4, 1910 married Richard, son of Henry and Rebecca (VanLoon) Vandenberg born February 8, 1817 died July 21, 1860. He was a farmer.

Illus. 01: Lampman

Lampman Family 1897.

I am a direct descendent of Susanna Lowing--grandson of Sylvester Orrin Lampman and son of Mary Ann Lampman and William Lyman Bowen. I own the mimeod Lowing book Ruth provided and have enjoyed it greatly. Any other Web sites on the Lowings you could recommend? Thanks. Larry Bowen, Fairfax, VA

Taken in 1897. My grandfather Sylvester Orrin Lampman was 18 and is standing second to the right in the back row. All remained in Iowa.

Sec. 04: Sheridan

Sheridan Lineage

The ancestor of this family was the Right Honorable Richard Brinley Sheridan, M.P. orator and author who was born at Dublin, Ireland, September 1751 -youngest son of Thomas by his wife Frances Chamberlaine (the accomplished author of Sidney Biddolph) who was born at Quilco, Co. Cavan 1721. Thomas was the son of Reverend Thomas Sheridan, D.D. ( a friend of Dean Swift) born 1684 in county Cavan. This Thomas was the son of Thomas who obtained a fellowship at Trinity College, Dublin, which he had obliged to resign on becoming a Catholic, and in 1680 was imprisoned for supposed complicity in a "Popish plot" but was subsequently knighted by James II, who made him his secretary. This last mentioned Thomas was a brother of the Ft Rev. William Sheridan, Bishop of Kilmore, who was born at Togher, co. Cavan, about 1655, and both were sons of Reverend Dionlysius Sheridan, once a Catholic Clergyman, who was converted to Protestantism by the Bishop of Bedell.

ARMS: OR, A LION RAMPANT, BETWEEN 3 TREFOILS VERT. CREST: OUT OF A DUCAT CORONET OR, A STAGS HEAD PROPER.

(Gold shield, a lion rampant, between 3 trefoils green)

Out of a ducal coronet, gold, a stag's head in natural colors)

In January, 1775 Richard's Comedy, the Rivals - was bought out at Covent Garden and his School for Scandal Later.

Thomas Sheridan (1818-1891) was of Chapel Izod, by Dublin, Ireland, married at Blanchartown February 13, 1843 to Susan Lambert - born 1823 - Died November 17,1905.

Susan always said she was 12 years old when Victoria was crowned.

Mary - born October 6, 1888, at Allendale, married October 29, 1913 - Roy H., son of Holden C. and Eleanor (Chapin Woodruff) Lowing - Living 1952.

John born April 12, 1862, at Blyhe, Ontario - married December 12, 1887, Nellie Daughter of Franklin and Mary Jeanette (Lowing) Bosworth, born December 18 ,1861 - died at Allendale, Michigan

Sec. 05: Stowers

Stowers Lineage

ARMS: OR, THREE BARS GULES

CREST: A ROSE GULES, SEEDED AND BARBED PROPER

(Gold, Three Bars Red. A Rose, Red, Seeded and Barbed Natural Colors.)

The name Stower (later Stowers) is rarely heard except in West Dorsetshire. It is from Stour Parish (now East and West Stour) on the river of the same name, in Dorsetshire, England. In the Visitation of Dorsetshire in 1623 is found the record - "Jon Bowdich married Julian, daughter of Nicholas de Stowre."

Walter Stowers, of Dorsetshire is known to have had the following children. His wife's name is unknown.

• Nicholas, with Simon Hoyt (Haight) and the Spragues, from Upway Parish Dorsetshire, came to the New England in the ship "Abigail" with Governor John

Endicott, arriving at Salem Massachusetts September 6, 1628. He was a member of the Boston Church in 1630 and was made a Freeman of Boston, May 18 of that year. On November 2, 1632, he and his wife Amy and children "entered the covenant" at the first church of Charlestown, Massachusetts. He died there May 17, 1646, leaving widow Amy and children; Richard, born England married Hannah daughter of Henry Frost of Ipswich, Suffolk - Joanna, Joseph born Boston

February 12, 1632 - Abigail born 1636 Sarah a daughter who married a Mr Farr and John who died prior to August 15, 1638.

Deborah - born Dorchester, England May 1, 1593, died probably Dorchester, Massachusetts about 1634. She married at Epway in the Parish church, in 1612, Simon Son of John and Ruth Hoyt of Upway.

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  • KIMBERLY ANN (HODGSON) SLAZAK (1866), born September 21,1956. Married Dennis Bert Slazak (3132), May 8, 1976.
    1. JODY LOU SLAZAK (3133), born July 16, 1980.
    2. JAMIE SUE SLAZAK (3134), born March 25,1982.
  • LOTTIE JEAN (LOWING) EDDY (1861), second daughter of Russell Lowing was born at Allendale, February 15, 1937. Lottie is a high school graduate and has worked as a telephone operator. In March of 1957, Lottie married Robert Eddy (1867) of Muskegon. They are now living rear Coopersville.
    1. STEVEN RUSSELL EDDY (1868), born November 1, 1957. Married September 18, 1976 to Patty Kay Chamberlain (3155).
      1. ERIN KAY EDDY (3136), born December 11, 1978.
      2. MONICA JEAN EDDY (3137), born August 16, 1981.
    2. DALE ROBERT EDDY (1869), born September 1958. Married November 1, 1977 to Lori Gilde (3138).
      1. JOSEPH ROBERT EDDY (3139), born May 26,1978.
  • LORNA LEE (LOWING) ENGLE (1862), youngest daughter of Russell Lowing was born in Grand Rapids, July 27, 1943. She married Donald Engle (2817), March 3, 1962.
    1. LORI ANN (ENGLE) RANDER (3140), born October 27,1963. Married January 5,1985 to Robert Rander (3142).
      1. HEATHER MARIE RANDER (3143), born November l8, 1986.
      2. JACQUELYN RANDER (3144), born January 31, 1988.
      3. ROBYN LORI RANDER (3145), born December 30, 1989.
    2. NANCY KAY (ENGLE) KEEGSTRA (3141), born June 5, 1967. Married April 1, 1989 to Bruce Keegstra (3146).
  • RUTH ELEANOR (LOWING) BEHRENS (1247) was born at Georgetown, October 3, 1913. Site is the oldest daughter of Floyd and Eva Lowing. Ruth is a high school graduate, and was a member of the school orchestra. She married William E Behrens (1870), December 31, 1932 at the home of her parents in Allendale. They lived on their farm near Bauer since their marriage. William passed away April 5,1968, buried in Blendon Cemetery. They have seven children and eleven grand children.
    1. ARLENE JUNE (BEHRENS) GROENDYK (1871), eldest daughter of Ruth Lowing and William Behrens, was born at Allendale, July 20, 1933. She is a high school graduate and did office work until her marriage February 1954 to Roger Groendyke (1878) at St. John Lutheran Church at Blendon. They are now living in Grand Rapids, and they have four children.
      1. WILLIAM ALLAN GROENDYK (1879), born September 1, 1954. Married September 29, 1979 to Jefra Johnson (3147), daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Charles Johnson.
        1. RYAN WILLIAM GROENDYK (3148), born November 14, 1983.
        2. EVAN ROBERT GROENDYK (3149), born October 30, 1986.
      2. JUNE ANN GROENDYK (1880), born September 3, 1955.
      3. ROGER D. GROENDYK, JR (1881), born August 21, 1956. Married November 30, 1979 to Judy Havelhorst (3150), daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Harry Havelhorst.
        1. ROGER DAVID GROENDYK 111 (3151), born December 20, 1981.
        2. ERIC CHRISTOPHER GROENDYK (3152), born May 30, 1984.
      4. GARY LEE GROENDYK (1882), born October 13, 1957. Married September 23, 1978 to Denise Zamarippa (3153).
        1. BROOKE ANN GROENDYK (3154), born August 27, 1981.
    2. WARD E BEHRENS (1872), twin son of Ruth (Lowing) Behrens, was born in Blendon, June 25,1934. He attended Hudsonville High School and later married Helene Garner (1883) at St. Mary's Church in Grand Rapids, April 25, 1954. Helene passed away August 19, 1968, burial Woodlawn Cemetery. Ward remarried Patricia Cooley (3155) June 23, 1972
      1. WARD LEE BEHRENS (1884), born May 11, 1955. Married Vicky Mroz (3156), February 12, 1977.
        1. BRANDON MICHAEL BEHRENS (3157), born July 8, 1977.
      2. KEITH LEE BEHRENS (1885), born June 18, 1959. Married August 14, 1982 to Mary Beth VanNetten (3158), daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Ray VanNetten, of Holland, Michigan.
        1. JENNIFER LYNN BEHRENS (3159), born May 13,1988.
        2. JODI MARIE BEHRENS (3160), born July 25, 1990.
      3. KELLY ANNE (BEHRENS) GLAZIER (3161), born October 22, 1963. Married Steven Glazier (3162), August 16, 1986.
    3. WAYNE E BEHRENS (1873), twin son of Ruth Lowing Behrens, was born at Blendon June 25,1934. He attended High School and later married Thurlene Nash (1886) of Grand Rapids, March 1, 1945. They are living in Grand Rapids and have three children.
      1. DAVID WAYNE BEHRENS (1887), born September 8, 1957. Married March 22, 1979 to Ginger Dalman (3163).
        1. LINDSAY JOY BEHRENS (3164), born August 17, 1983.
        2. ALICIA RENEE BEHRENS (3165), born May 10, 1985.
        3. JENNA CHRISTINE BEHRENS (3166), born November 7, 1988.
      2. DEBRA LYNN (BEHRENS) HEEMSTRA (1888), born April 7, 1959. Married June 7, 1980 to Thomas Heemstra (3167), son of Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Heemstra of Hudsonville.
        1. REBEKAH LYN HEEMSTRA (3168), born July 5, 1984.
        2. RENEE MICHELLE HEEMSTRA (3169), born June 5,1988.
      3. DWAYNE ALLEN BEHRENS (1889), born May 29, 1960. Married June 11, 1982 to Sharon Joy Burns (3170), daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Burns of Hudsonville, MI
        1. JEROD SCOTT BEHRENS (3171), born October 15, 1982
        2. ASHLEY MARIE BEHRENS (3172), born October 16, 1985.
    4. CAROL JEANNE (BEHRENS) KNOPER (1874), daughter of Ruth (Lowing) Behrens was born at Blendon, March 17, 1938. After graduating from high school and working for a time as a bank clerk she married Larry Knoper (1890) at Allendale Christian Reformed Church. They reside at Allendale with their two children.
      1. LAUREL JEAN (KNOPER) HERRICK (1891), born April 4,1957. Married John Herrick, (3174) August 20, 1975 in Allendale, MI.
        1. MICHAEL HERRICK (3175), born May 31, 1975
        2. ISAAC JOHN HERRICK (3176), born September 19,1981.
        3. REBEKAH JEAN HERRICK (3177), born November 18,1982.
      2. RANDALL LEE KNOPER (1892), born November 2, 1958. Married August 8, 1981 to Gretchen Piersma (3178), daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Piersma of Hudsonville.
        1. DEREK GORDON KNOPER (3179), born December 25,1983.
        2. JORDON LEE KNOPER (3180), born May 21, 1987.
      3. LYNN RENEE KNOPER (3173), born November 3, 1964.
    5. LORRAINNE (BEHRENS) EVERETT (1875), daughter of Ruth (Lowing) Behrens, was born at Blendon September 4, 1944. Lorraine is a high school graduate. She married Michael Everett (3181), May 12, 1973.
      1. MICHAEL TAYLOR EVERETT (3182), born May 31, 1975.
      2. KYLE WILLIAM EVERETT (3183), born February 11, 1977.
    6. BETTY LOU (BEHRENS) HALL (1896), youngest daughter of Ruth (Lowing) Behrens was born November 13, 1947 at Blendon. Betty married Earl Hall (3184), April 30, 1966.
      1. KEVIN EARL HALL (3185), born July 1, 1971.
      2. JASON KELLY HALL (3186), born September 21, 1973.
    7. JERRY WILLIAM BEHRENS (1877), youngest child of Ruth (Lowing) Behrens, was born November 13, 1957 in Zeeland, Michigan. Married August 15, 1981 to Mary Jeanette Phillips (3187), daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Phillips of Allendale.
      1. ANDREW WILLIAM BEHRENS (3849), born 17 January 1985.
  • ROBERT M. LOWING (1248) was born in Allendale, July 21, 1917, the second son of Floyd and Eva Lowing. He was married to Lucille Dennis (1893), March 16, 1937 at Grand Haven. To this marriage was born Roger Hugh, who passed away at six weeks, and Connie Louise born in Grand Rapids. Robert was divorced January 10, 1941, and married Mary J. Muste (1896), December 31, 1943. Their first child was Robert Allan, then Jean Ann, who passed away at four months of age. Robin Gayle, born November 18, 1952, at Grand Rapids. Robert was divorced and married Klare E. Luyk, (1900) November 2, 1957 in Grand Rapids. Klare was born in August 1915. Robert is now a truck driver and lives in Allendale.
    1. ROGER HUGH LOWING (1894), born September 16, 1938 and died November 1, 1938.
    2. CONNEE LOUISE (LOWING) FERGUSON (1895), daughter of Robert and Lucille (Dennis) Lowing, was born February 13, 1943 at Grand Rapids. She married Ronald Ferguson (1901) on June 10, 1961. They have three children.
      1. FEBRA ANN FERGUSON (1902), born March 27, 1962 in New Jersey
      2. KEVIN CRAIG FERGUSON (3188), born May 13, 1965. Married 1983 to Bobbie (3189).
        1. BRYAN CRAIG FERGUSON (3190), born February 29,1984.
        2. AIMEE LYUNN FERGUSON (3191), born May 21, 1985.
      3. PALL ROBERT FERGUSON (3192), born October 28,1969.
    3. ROBERT ALLAN (1897), son of Robert Lowing and Mary (Muste) Lowing was born December 31, 1944.
    4. JEAN ANN (1898) was born July 2, 1951 and passed away at four months of age, October 8, 1951.
    5. ROBIN GALE (LOWING) BOWEN (1899), daughter of Robert and Mary Lowing was born November 16, 1953. She married Ernest Bower (3193), May 1973.
      1. ERNEST BOWEN, JR, born June 1973.
  • WILLARD ELTON LOWING (1249), third son of Floyd and Eva Lowing, was born at Allendale, September 11, 1920. A high school graduate, he married Jeannette Dennis (1903), August 29, 1937 at Elkhart, Indiana. One son was born to this union, Donald Eugene born at Bauer. Willard was divorced July 1st, 1940. He was then married to Helen Sodowski (1909), who was born at Grand Rapids. Two sons were born to this union, Duane Allen, and David Stanley. Helen passed away soon after David's birth, August 13, 1943. Willard married Arlene Bohn (1912), December 4, 1942, who was born in Grand Rapids, March 2, 1926. Three daughters were born to his union, Lee Ann, Leslie Marie and Juanita Kay. Willard and family live on a dairy farm near Coopersvile, where he raises registered Holstein cattle and is a 4-H leader. After the departure of Arlene he married Margaret Smith (3195) in 1972.
    1. DONALD EUGENE LOWING (1904), son of Willard and Jeannette (Dennis) Lowing, was born November 18, 1937 at Blendon. He is a High School graduate, and served three years with the U.S. Army in Japan. Donald married Emily Patrick (1905), April 7,1956 in Nunica. Emily is also a High School graduate, and spent two years in Japan with her husband. Donald is a diesel mechanic. Donald divorced Emily, married Sharon Betsford (3196) on May 14, 1977.
      1. MICHAEL DUANE LOWING (1906) was born in Tokyo, Japan, May 8,1958, while his father was in the Army. Married October 10, 1981 to Marcia Lynn Otterbein (3197), daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Harvey Otterbein of Coopersville, MI.
        1. BRADLEY JAY LOWING (3198), born November 25, 1985.
      2. TRACY LYNN (LOWING) WOODS, KNAUF (1907), was born January 8, 1960. Married January 5, 1980 to Danny Woods (3199) of Georgia. Divorced and married Frank Knauf (3201), August 13, 1988.
        1. RYAN WOODS (3200), Born May 6, 1980.
      3. CHRIS ALLAN LOWING (1908), was born April 27, 1962. Married April 22, 1989 to June Yost (3201).
      4. BRIAN DONALD LOWING (3203), born November 19, 1965.
    2. DUANE ALLEN LOWING (1910), born December 14, 1941. Married Rita Rae Struik (3204) of Manic on October 10, 1964
      1. TIMOTHY EUGENE LOWING (3205), born March 30,1965
      2. TERESSA (TINA) ANN (LOWING) WIGGERS (3206), born October 26, 1967. Married August 25, 1990 to John Jay Wiggers (3207).
    3. DAVID STANLEY LOWING (1911), born August 13,1943. He married Sharon Parks (3208) on June 6, 1964.
      1. DEBORAH LYNN LOWING (3209), born November 18, 1964.
      2. DENNETTE LEE (LOWING) FLOUR (3210), born November 19, 1965. Married Gregg Floud (3211), April 26, 1986. Divorced 1991.
      3. DAVID LOWELL LOWING (3212), born October 9,1967. Married May 14,1988 to Virginia Lynn Gravely (3213).
        1. CHRISTOPHER LOWING (3214), born December 3, 1988
        2. JESSIE ALLEN LOWING (3215), born November 3,1990.
    4. LEE ANN (LOWING) KLUTING (1913), born July 26, 1944. Married Eugene A. Kluting (2818), October 27, 1962
      1. MARK EUGENE KLUTING (3216), born December 18, 1964. Married August 3, 1985 to Laura Audissred (3218) of McAllen, Texas.
        1. KERRI KLUTING (3219), born April 1, 1988.
        2. MATTHEW EVAN KLUTING (3220), born May 22,1991.
      2. EVAN KLUTING (3217), born August 28, 1973.
    5. LESLIE MARIE (LOWING) YAGER, STEINHAUS (1914) born September 21, 1947. She married James Yager (3221), January 27, 1968. Divorced. Remarried to Warren Steinhaus (3224) in 1979.
      1. KARLY JANELLE YAGER (3222), born August 6,1973.
      2. JAMES MARK YAGER (3223), born November 15, 1976.
      3. KELLY LEE ANN STEINHAUS (3225), born May 20,1980
    6. JUANITA KAY (LOWING) SHRUNK, ZAHRT (1915), born June 7, 1949. She married Robert Shrunk (3226), April 1970. Divorced. Remarried Jim Zahrt (3229), July 1985.
      1. ROBERT SCOTT SHRUNK (3227), born August 31, 1973.
      2. BRIAN ALLAN SHRUNK (3228), born October 19, 1976.
  • MYLA JEANS (LOWING) VISSERS, HORTER (1250), second daughter of Floyd and Eva Lowing was born in Allendale, July 15, 1923. She received a high school education and was married to Marvin R Vissers (1916), January 29, 1941, at Allendale Reformed Church. He is employed at Consumers Power Company. They have three children. She divorced Marvin and remarried David Horter (3230) on April 29, 1979.
    1. NANCY KAY (VISSERS) DYKE (1917), born at Zeeland, August 15, 1942. She married Jerry Allen Dyke (2819), September 6, 1962.
      1. CYNTHIA KAY (DYKE) BOERTJE (2820), born May 13, 1963. Married November 11, 1989 to Bruce Boertje (3231).
      2. CRISTINE FAY DYKE (3232), born July 13, 1965.
      3. CHERILYN MAY DYKE (3233), born October 20, 1969.
      4. CURTIS ALAN DYKE (3234), born January 3, 1971.
    2. JANET LYN (VISSERS) VENNEMAN (1918), was born August 10, 1944. She married Mare Venneman (1920), September 21, 1961.
      1. LAURA ALARM (VENNEMAN) SMITH (1921), born April 24, 1962. Married August 25, 1984 to Randy Allen Smith (3235) of Kalamazoo.
      2. DANIEL MARC VENNEMAN (3236), born May 2, 1965.
      3. JOEL HAROLD VENNEMAN (3237), born June 5, 1968. Married September 16, 1989 to Nancy Niblick (3238).
    3. TERRYL LEE VISSERS (1919), was born October 8, 1946. He married Sally Arnoldink (3239), October 2, 1970.
      1. CRAIG ALLAN VISSERS (3240), born March 24, 1973.
      2. STACY LYNN VISSERS (3241), born October 24, 1975.
      3. MATTHEW JON VISSERS (3242), born January 31, 1977.
      4. LISA MARIE VISSERS (3243), born April 8, 1979.
  • FLOYD M. LOWING, JR (1251), youngest son of Floyd and Eva Lowing was born September 30, 1925 at Allendale. After receiving a high school education, he married Donna McDowell (1922) in Grand Rapids, March 16, 1952. Donna was born in Caledonia, February 12, 1926. He is a diesel mechanic at Cummings Diesel in Grand Rapids. They have two sons and a daughter and live near Coopersville.
    1. DAN BRIAN LOWING (1923), was born June 16, 1955.
    2. THOMAS BRUCE LOWING (1924), was born January 8, 1957. Married April 14, 1984 to Darlene Beck (3244).
      1. CHRISTOPHER THOMAS LOWING (3245), born December 25, 1985.
      2. MONICA ELYSE LOWING (3246), born October 2, 1987.
      3. GERRIT JAMES LOWING (3247), born March 2, 1990.
    3. DENISE KAY (LOWING) BREEN (1925), was born September 28, 1959. Married October 20, 1979, to David Breen (3248), son of Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Breen.
      1. BRIEN FLOYD BREEN (3249), born May 30, 1983.
      2. BRADLEY JOHN BREEN (3250), born November 2, 1984.
      3. BRANDON DAVID BREEN (3251), born June 28, 1987.
  • IVAN LOWING (1241), the third child of Edna Gillett and Otis Lowing, was born in Georgetown, July 1892. He attended Georgetown School and Grandville High School. After his father's death he worked his mother's farm for several years. He married Marguerite Doan (1252), November 12, 1912 at Grandville. Later he worked as salesman for the Grand Rapids Dairy. He sold Insurance for several companies. He was called for World War L, but never saw active service. He was a member of I.O.O.F in Hudsonville and was a Noble Grand for several years. Marguerite was born July 2, 1896 and died February 16, 1948. Ivan died April 5, 1940. Both are buried in the Georgetown Cemetery. They had six children.
    1. DONNA (LOWING) DUBOIS (1253), of Fox St., Grand Rapids, Michigan, was born May 25, 1916, at Jenison, Mich. She married Gerald May (1927) in 1936 and was divorced in 1942, married Lewis Smith (1928) in 1944 and divorced in 1948, and married Floyd Dubois (1929) January 21, 1950, at Fort Wayne, Ind. He is in the Diesel Equipment Division of G.M.C. at Grand Rapids. She has no children. She passed away January 28, 1969.
    2. GRANT E LOWING (1926), was born August 16, 1918 and passed away September 27, 1919.
    3. MAX I. LOWING (1254), was born November 4, 1919, at Georgetown, Michigan. He attended Hudsonville Grade and High School. He was a salesman for the Singer Sewing Machine Co., prior to his service in the Army. He married Mavis DeGroot (1930), January 13, 1942 at Jamestown, Michigan. He left Grand Haven for Ft. Custer, Michigan Jan 26, 1942. He arrived at Camp Wheeler, Ga., Feb 14, 1942 and in May to Ft. Devens, Mass. After a few short furloughs, he left for overseas in April 1943, landed in Africa, and was in the first combat in July in Sicily. They fought their way through the entire Sicilian Campaign until the land was completely taken. On September 10th 1943, his outfit (180th Infantry Antitank of the 45th Thunderbird Division) and he landed at Salerna, Italy and fought, and was on front line duty consistently until October when they reached the Vulturno River Crossing, they next moved to Cassino Italy, where they fought until January 1944, when they were moved to the Beaches of Anzio. Here they were shelled upon night and day as they tried to hold an area 8 miles deep by 12 miles wide, by German 88mm guns, as they tried to push them back into the sea. Max was on a forward antitank gun, on the morning of February 16, 1944. Some of the German tanks got behind his position, and were firing from the flanks. He swung his 57mm gun around to cover his men. It was an unequal battle, and when it was over Max had been killed, and his gun was shattered by a direct hit.

      He was awarded the Bronze Star posthumously which read "For heroic achievement in action of Feb 16,1944, his courageous performance in engaging tanks despite their superior fire power reflects the high tradition of the Army of the United States." He had been in constant action from the time he left North Africa in May until he was killed at Anzio, Italy in Feb, living on rations without any relief from constant combat. Max is buried in Georgetown Cemetery. They had one child.

      1. SHERRYL MAXINE (LOWING) ENSING (1931), born October 23, 1942. She married Gary Ensing (2821). Sherryl (aged 32) and Gary (aged 33) both passed away due to accidental injuries August 15, 1975. Interment Grandville Cemetery.
        1. KELLY KRISTIN (ENSING) BLOUW (3034), born July 20, 1964. Married June 30, 1990 to Douglas Blouw (3254).
        2. BRETT MICHAEL ENSING (3253), born June 29, 1967.
    4. KEITH F LOWING (1932), 5547 Pleasant Ave., Hudsonville, was born April 26, 1923. He attended Hudsonville Grade and High School. He entered service in World War II, February 11, 1943 and served the 351 Inf. Co. B 88th Division in Italy. He saw a great deal of action and was wounded near Florence Italy. He was discharged October 17, 1945. He married Faye (Polly) Alward (1935), November 25, 1947 at the Congregational Church in Hudsonville. He is a driver for the Cedar Crest Farms and Dairy. They have two children.
      1. PENDRA LEA (LOWING) COSTEN (1936), was born April 1, 1949. At the age of two on August 1, 1951, Penny won first prize in an IGA contest over 10,000 contestants, as a national winner; $500 bond, trip to New York, and playground equipment. Pendra married Jerry Costen (3255), May 18, 1971.
        1. KELLI COSTEN (3256), born August 19, 1977
      2. CINDA LEE (LOWING) GEERS (1937), was born January 22, 1954. Married Rick Geers (3257), January 22, 1977.
        1. RYAN LEE GEERS (3258), born October 13, 1980.
        2. CODY C. GEERS (3259), born October 2, 1984.
    5. KENT LEROY LOWING (1933), of Hamilton St., Newton, New Jersey, fifth child of Ivan and Marguerite Lowing was bony Oct 11, 1935, at Hudsonville. He attended Hudsonville Elementary and High School. He entered service in Sept 1955 and was in the Infantry. He took his training at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., and then spent 1 1/2 years in Germany. He was discharged in 1957. He married Effie Plowman (1938), June 10, 1960, at Newton, New Jersey. He is a factory worker.
      1. RUTH ANN (LOWING) SHAUGER (3035), adopted daughter born December 21, 1963. Married Shauger (3260), Divorced same.
        1. NICHOLAS (3261), born May 22, 1983
        2. DERRICK (3262), born January 2,1990.
    6. GARTH LOWING (1934), of 5547 Pleasant Ave., Hudsonville, the sixth and last child of Ivan and Marguerite Lowing was born Dec 21, 1937 at Hudsonville. He attended elementary and high school at Hudsonville, Mich. He entered service on May 3, 1956 and served with the 29th Infantry. He received his training in California, and spent a year and a half in Germany. He was discharged April 18, 1958. He is a driver for the Spe-D-Gas Co. On June 29, 1962, he married Christine Ammons (1939).
      1. LINDA CHRISTINE (LOWING) MARREN (2822), born June 14, 1963. Married September 18, 1981 to Todd Marren (3264) son of Mr & Mrs Don Marren.
        1. AMANDA CHRISTINE MARREN (3265), born March 14,1982
        2. ROSS MICHAEL MARREN (3266), born April 16, 1985.
      2. BECKY SUE (LOWING) DE WEERD (3263), born November 11, 1965. Married May 16, 1986 to Joel Gerald DeWeerd (3267)
        1. JARED ROBERT DE WEERD (3268), born September 9, 1987.
  • NEVA (LOWING) CHENEY (1242), of 624 North Lansing, Mt. Pleasant, the only daughter of Otis and Edna Lowing, was born March 20, 1898, at Georgetown, Michigan. She attended school in Georgetown, Grandville Hilt School and Webb Academy in Grand Rapids. She studied music. She married J.D. Cheney (1255), December 13, 1916 at Grand Rapids. He was a salesman. She worked in the drapery business. J.D. passed away May 6, 1968 in Mt Pleasant. Neva passed away March 29, 1982. Both are buried in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Grand Rapids, MI.
    1. MARGARET JANE (CHENEY) MORTENSEN (1256), was born Aug 8, 1919 at Grand Rapids. She married Jack Mortensen (1940), August 17, 1940 at Grand Rapids, and later moved to Mt. Pleasant. They have five children.
      1. GAYLE A. (MORTENSEN) JOHNSTONE (1941), was born Aug 4, 1941. She married Mark Johnstone (1946), in 1961.
      2. DAVID J.MORTENSEN (1942), was born September 6, 1944.
      3. DIANE J. MORTENSEN (1943), was born March 14,1948.
      4. GARTH A. MORTENSEN (1944), was born August 4, 1956.
      5. JANET KAIORTENSEN (1945), was born April 25, 1959.
    2. JACK EDWARD CHENEY (1257) was born in Grand Rapids, January 27, 1921. He entered the Army August 1943, was overseas with the 94th Infantry Div., serving in France and Germany from 1944 until 1946. He was discharged February 1946. He married Violet Gage (1947), January 1941. They had one child. All live in Mt. Pleasant Michigan. Second marriage was to Vivian Kitto (1949), September 23, 1948. They had one child. Vivian passed away October 26, 1966, burial in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Grand Rapids.
      1. RUTH ANN (CHENEY) TOLAR (1948), was born June 21, 1943. She married James Tolar (1951) in 1958. They have one child.
        1. KATHY TOLAR (1952), born 1959
      2. BETTY LOU CHENEY (1950), born March 11, 1959.
  • LYNN G. LOWING (1243), the fifth child of Otis and Edna Lowing was born December 26, 1902 at Georgetown. He attended school in Grand Rapids and graduated from South High School. He married Vane Schnures (1953), July 21, 1922 at Cedar Springs, Michigan. He is an employee of the C&O Railroad. They had eight children. Vatic passed away August 11, 1948, and is buried in the Georgetown Cemetery. He married Minnie Engeleman (1962) March 12, 1949. She had two children by a former marriage who took the Lowing name. Lynn and Minnie have one child.
    1. RICHARD FREDERICK LYNN LOWING (1954), first child of Lynn and Vatic lives at 17841 56th St., Coopersville, Michigan. He was born May 12, 1927, at Evans, Michigan. On May 14, 1949 he married Armella Victoria Schoenborn (1966), at Conklin, Michigan. He is a Carman of the C&O Railroad. They are members of the Holy Name Society, and St Mary's Church. He was chairman of Cub Scout Pack 3004. They have three children.
      1. CHARLES RICHARD LOWING (1967), born January 22, 1951. Married Mary Faltenowsky (3270), February 3, 1973.
        1. MICHELLE LYNN LOWING (3271), born July 3, 1973.
        2. RAYMOND RICHARD LOWING (3272), born December 16,1974.
      2. CHRISTENE ANN (LOWING) DLBOIS (1968), born August 27, 1953. Married Wayne DuBois (3273), January 13, 1973.
        1. HEATHER JO DUBOIS (3274), born November 8, 1973.
        2. MARTHA MARIE DUBOIS (3275), born April 27,1982.
      3. ROSE MARIE (LOWING) HORTER (1969), born February, 15,1955. Married Leonard E. Horter (3276), April 30, 1977, son of Mr. & Mrs. Edward Horter.
        1. EDWARD RICHARD HORTER (3277), born August 10, 1980.
        2. LEONARD WILLIAM HORTER (3278), born October 7, 1981.
      4. THOMAS LYNN LOWING (3279), born October 25, 1961. Married June 25, 1983 to Ruth Marie Schneider (3280), born May 12, 1959, daughter of Agnes and Alfred Schneider of Carson City, Michigan.
        1. JAMES RICHARD LOWING (3281), born June 25,1985.
    2. BETTY JEAN (LOWING) KNAUFF (1955), from Coopersville R.R.#2, was born February 28, 1930 at Grand Rapids. She attended the neighboring schools. February 26, 1949 she married John Knauff (1970), at Conklin, Michigan. He is a farmer and site is a housewife. They belong to St. Mary's Church. They have two children.
      1. SUSAN MARIE (KNAUFF) HORNACEK (1979), born August 15, 1949. Susan married John Hornacek (3282), November 23, 1973.
        1. PATRICK JOHN HORNACEK (3283), born April 14, 1974.
        2. DARLENE MIKEL HORNACEK (3284), born June 26, 1975.
        3. ANNE MARIE HORNACEK (3285), born August 1, 1977.
        4. JOSEPH PAUL HORNACEK (3286), born November 22,1978
        5. KATHLEEN RENEE HORNACEK (3287), born July 2, 1981.
      2. MICHAEL JOHN KNAUFF (1972), born July 20, 1959. Married Susan Mae Trendt (3288), July 3, 1976.
        1. CHRISTINA DIANE KNAUFF (3289), born December 22, 1978.
        2. BARBARA ANN KNAUFF (3290), bore August 29, 1980
    3. DONALD GORDEN LOWING (1976), was born March 17, 1932 at Georgetown. He has been ill for a long time and is in the state school in Coldwater. Donald, aged 47, passed away September 4, 1979, buried in Georgetown Cemetery.
    4. DALE LYNN LOWING (1957), the fourth child of Lynn and Vane Lowing lives at 619 56th Ave., Coopersville, Mich. He was born August 2.3, 1934 at Manic, Mich. Dale married Sue Carole Martin (1973), July 13, 1957 at Brandenburg Kentucky. She is a housewife, and he is a carman for the C&O Railroad. He entered the army on June 2, 1954, and was discharged May 31, 1957, with overseas duty for 16 months in Korea. They are members of the Immanuel Baptist Church. They have three children.
      1. PEGGY SUE (LOWING) MANZER (1974), born March 27, 1958. Married May 26, 1979 to Daniel Lawrence Manzer (3291) son of Rev. and Mrs. Lawrence Manzer.
        1. JOSHUA AARON MANZER (3292), born August 5, 1980.
        2. DEANNA MARIE MANZER (3293), born January 26,1983.
        3. KAITLYN MANZER (3294), born March 28, 1989.
      2. DEBORAH KAYE (LOWING) MAYSE (1975), born November 26, 1959. Married August 11, 1980 to Richard Mayse (3295).
        1. NICHOLAS MARTIN MAYSE (3296), born January 2, 1984.
        2. BENJAMIN RICHARD MAYSE (3297), born August 28,1987.
      3. LYNDA LEE (LOWING) SCHUTTER (1976), born February 8, 1961. Married January 8, 1983 to Martin Wayne Schutter (3298).
        1. ABBIE LYNN SCHUTTER (3299), born July 10, 1985.
        2. WAYNE SCHUTTER (3300), born October 27, 1987.
    5. DUANE OTIS LOWING (1958), was bore February 19, 1937 and also in the state school at Coldwater.
      1. SCOTT RANDALL LOWING (3301), born December 25, 1965. Married July 1987 to Paula Russo(3304).
        1. ZACHARY DANIEL LOWING (3305), born July 25,1990.
      2. JASON EDWIN LOWING (3302), born August 27,1976.
    6. RANDALL DEAN LOWING (1959), of Coopersville, Mich., was born February 16,1939 at Marie, Mich. He was married to Sharon May (1977), June 1959 at Conklin, Mich. She is a secretary, and he is a Press Operator. They have one child. Divorced from Sharon, Remarried to Nancy Wierenga (3303), January 25, 1975.
      1. JASON EDWARD LOWING (3302) born August 27, 1976
    7. BONNIE JUNE (LOWING) CURTHS, WIENAND (1960), was the seventh child of Lynn and Vane Lowing and was born June 30, 1940. She attended school at Marie. She married Richard Curths (1960), October 2, 1958 at Fort Collies. He entered the Airforce Aug 6, 1958 and now is in England. She is a housewife. They have three children. Divorced. Remarried May 5, 1978 to George Wienand (1978).
      1. DAVID MARK CURTHS (1979), bore April 27,1959.
      2. PAUL EDWIN CURTHS (2823), born November 18, 1961.
      3. STEVEN JOHN CURTHS (3306), born February 19, 1966.
    8. PATRICIA (LOWING) MILLER (1961), is the youngest child of Lynn and Vane Lowing, and she was born February 26, 1944. She attended grade school and Kalkaska High School. She married Ivan Miller (3307), May 1961.
      1. MARTIN MILLER (3308), born October 2, 1961. Married July 18, 1981 to Holly Hayes (3313) of Fife Lake.
        1. JASON MILLER (3314), born April 1983.
        2. JEFFERY MARTIN MILLER (3315), born December 2, 1985.
      2. TAMMY (MILLER) WHITLOW (3309), born August 1964. Married May 7,1983 to David Whitlow (3316).
        1. CHELSEA WHITLOW (3317), born December 19, 1990.
      3. MATTHEW J. MILLER (3310), born September 27, 1965.
      4. LISA KAY (MILLER) HARTPENCE (3311), born February 10, 1967. Married to Barry Gene Hartpence (3318), June 28, 1986.
      5. AMANDA LEE MILLER (3312), born January 16,1971, in South Boardman, Michigan.
    9. LEROY JAMES LOWING (1964) is the son of the second wife Minnie and adopted son of Lynn Lowing. He attended Big Springs Grade School and Coopersville High School. He married Sue Swears (1980), December 23, 1959. He joined the Navy June 1959 and was stationed at Boston Navy Yards. They have one child. Leroy married Noelle Schwingle (3319) from Chicago on July 13, 1964. They have one child. Remarried Betty Blackledge (3323) September 3, 1971. Divorced 1980. Remarried Judy Smith (3333), of Traverse City on June 6, 1981. Divorced, 1986. Married Brenda Cross (3787) August 31, 1986.
      1. JONATHAN LEE (1981), born August 29, 1960.
      2. JAMES LEE LOWING (3320), born April 21, 1965.
        1. JAMES LEE LOWING (3321), born October 5, 1986
      3. REUBEN BLACKLEDGE LOWING (3324), adopted, born 1963.
        1. DAVID SCOTT LOWING (3327), born February 21, 1991
      4. JILL BLACKLEDGE LOWING (3325), adopted, born 1964.
        1. JAY ALLAN RAYMAR (3320), born January 19, 1991.
      5. SHAWN LEE LOWING (3326), born July 24,1974.
    10. CAROL ANN (LOWING) BUTCHER (1965), is also adopted by Lynn Lowing. She attended Coopersville High School and Big Springs Grade School. She married Terry Butcher (1982) June 12, 1958. He is in the Air Force, serving in South Carolina. Spent one year in Okinawa. They have five children.
      1. LAURA LEA (BUTCHER) HUBBERT (1983), born February 13, 1960. Married September 3, 1984 to Charles Hubbert (3334).
        1. ANDREW CHARLES HUBBERT (3335), born January 23,1986.
        2. DEBORAH LEE HUBBERT (3336), born July 20, 1988.
        3. THOMAS WILSON HUBBERT (3337), born May 15, 1991.
      2. CARLA ANNE (BUTCHER) SUESSINE (2824), born October 22, 1961. Married May 17, 1980 to Tony Suessine (3338) of Romulus.
        1. BRIAN ANTHONY SUESSINE (3339), born February 16, 1986.
        2. BETHANY ANNE SUESSINE (3340), born February 28, 1988.
      3. TERRY ALLEN BUTCHER (3330), born October 2, 1963. Married Diane Karns (3341) of Reed City.
        1. NICKOLE MARIE BUTCHER (3342), born November 20, 1985.
        2. MICHELLE ELAINE BUTCHER (3343), born January 4, 1987.
        3. MELISSA ANN BUTCHER (3344), born May 10, 1988.
        4. TERRI LYNN BUTCHER (3345), born March 18, 1990.
      4. DARRELL DUANE BUTCHER (3331), born September 26, 1965.
      5. DANIEL FLOYD BUTCHER (3332), born August 12, 1972.
    11. SANDRA LYNN (LOWING) BONSOR (1963), the first child of Lynn Lowing and Minnie (Englesman) Lowing was born April 11, 1952. She attended grade school at South Boardman, Michigan. Married to Paul Bonsor (3269), May 15, 1975 in New Zealand.
  • DON M. LOWING (1244), of 316 E. Alice St., Whitehall, Michigan was born July 2, 1907 at Georgetown Township. He attended South High School, Junior College at Grand Rapids, and Michigan State University. He is Vice President and Secretary of the Chaddock, Winter and Alberts Corp., Insurance Brokers at Muskegon, Michigan. He had two children by his last wife Dorothy (1984). Don married his second wife, Helen Marie Brogren (1987), September 4, 1948 at Minneapolis, Minn. They live at Whitehall. He is committeeman of the County Political Unit. Don is active in United Fund Drives, Member of the Rotary Club, and YMCA. Has been active in many offices over a 25-year period. President of White Lake Little League, Whitehall City Planning Commission member for 3 years. In 1952, he was top producer of Sales of Life Insurance for the Aetna Insurance Company, of Hartford, Connecticut, and served as President of their Leaders Club during that year. They have ten children, all born at Muskegon, Michigan. Passed away November 11, 1968. Buried Georgetown Cemetery.
    1. DONALD JAMES LOWING (1985), of 561 Chadwick, Whitehall, Mich, was born February 10, 1937 at Chicago, Ill. He attended Muskegon High school. He is employed by West Michigan Vending Company. Donald was in the U.S. Army from January 1957 to January 1959. He married Irene Marie Belasc (1997), at South Bend, Indiana. They have two children. Donald passed away February 25, 1972.
      1. KELLY MARIE LOWING (1998), born April 13, 1960 at Muskegon.
      2. LAURA D. LOWING (3036), born February 10, 1962
    2. JUDITH LYNN (LOWING) POSTMUS (1986), of Beville, Texas, was born January 14,1941 at Chicago, Illinois. She attended Muskegon High School and Muskegon Junior College. Judith married Terry Postmus (3037), June 10, 1961 at Muskegon, Michigan. He entered the service March of 1958, and was stationed at Beville, Texas.
      1. AMY KATHLEEN POSTMUS (3038), born May 6, 1963
    3. RICHARD HOLDEN (1988), born March 7, 1949.
    4. DAN ARTHUR (1989), born March 5, 1950.
    5. DIANNE (1990), born March 10, 1951.
    6. MARK EDWARD (1991), born November 22, 1952.
    7. STEPHEN CRAIG (1992), born April 21, 1954.
    8. PATRICIA LU (1993), born August 30, 1955.
    9. AMANDA (1994), born November 26, 1957.
    10. MARY JANE (1995), born October 14, 1959.
    11. JENNIFER KAY (1996), born October 1, 1961.
    12. ROBERT SCOTT LOWING (3346), born October 6, 1963.
  • DANIEL M. LOWING (48) was the fourth child born to Holden and Eleanor Lowing. He was born February 21, 1859 in Georgetown Township. He married Anna Fairbanks (80) of Holland, Michigan, December 5, 1889. Dan was a farmer all of his life on a farm on Bauer Road given to him by his father. He died May 21, 1903 and is buried in the Georgetown Cemetery; Anna passed away May 9, 1920.
    1. BERTHA LOWING (1999) died in infancy.
    2. CECIL (LOWING) WILSON (1258), the 2nd child born to Daniel and Anna Lowing was born February 28, 1891. She married Fred Wilson (1260), who was killed in a grain elevator accident March 24 1950. Three children were born to this marriage. Cecil passed away July 21, 1974 at age 83, in Marshall, Michigan; buried in Georgetown Cemetery.
      1. ARLEEN WILSON (1261) died in infancy.
      2. HARLEY WILSON (1262), the second child of Fred and Cecil Wilson was born June 12, 1913. On October 15, 1938 he married Viola Beeman (2001). They have two children. Harley passed away January 4,1991, buried in Lake Odessa, Michigan.
        1. FREDERICK CLARK WILSON (2002), born April 25, 1939. Married Susan Leslie VanderLind on April 22, 1967. Susan passed away 1970. They had no children. Frederick married Mary Frances Sacks, August 25,1972.
        2. ROGER HARLEY WILSON (2003), born February 22, 1945.
      3. DANIEL B. WILSON (2000), the third child of Fred and Cecil Wilson was born September 6, 1939. He married Peggy Adams (2004) in 1960. They have one child.
        1. BARBARA ANN (2005), born February 28, 1961.
    3. LUCY LOWING (1259), the third child of Daniel and Anna Lowing was born January 18, 1895, and died March 23, 1895.
  • MAY BELLE (LOWING) WATERS (49) was the fifth child born to Holden and Eleanor Lowing. She was born February 27, 1861. Married Charles Waters (106), who died March 6, 1932 in Ohio. May died June 26, 1901 and is buried in Georgetown Cemetery. No children were born to this union.
  • ISAAC N. LOWING (50) was the sixth child of Holden and Eleanor Lowing. He was born January 12,1863 in Georgetown Township. On March 232 1885, he married Lettie Willis (81) who died April 21,1951 and is buried in Georgetown Cemetery. Isaac was a farmer and in the early days of his marriage, operated a farm directly across the road from the Holden Lowing Home. He later operated a farm near Cedar Springs and spent the last years of his life in Grand Rapids. Isaac died February 24, 1924 and was buried in the Georgetown Cemetery. Four children were born of this marriage.
    1. Clyde B. (1263) died in infancy.
    2. WALTER LOWING (1264), was born January 24, 1889, and married Charlotte Wing (1266), January 24, 1927, who died May 10, 1938. Seven children were born to this marriage. At the age of 79, Walter passed away June 25, 1968. Buried in the Greenwood Cemetery, Grand Rapids.
      1. WALTER LOWING JR. (2007), born February 7,1928. Married Norma Hoose (3349), October 5, 1963.
        1. LEANN HOOSE (3350)
        2. NELSON HOOSE (3351), passed away Feb 2,1974.
        3. WANDA LOWING (3352), born June 19, 1964.
      2. EARL LOWING (2008), twin, born and died June 9, 1932.
      3. PEARL LOWING (2009), twin, born and died June 9, 1932.
      4. ARLENE (LOWING) BURTON, BELBOT (2010), was the fourth child of Walter and Charlotte Lowing, born March 6,1934. She married Robert Burton (2014), May 7, 1954, divorced July 28, 1967. Remarried Roy Belbot (3353), June 1, 1968.
      5. MARIE (LOWING) SMITH (2011) was the fifth child of Walter and Charlotte Lowing, born January 4, 1936. She married Ralph Smith (2015), June 26, 1953. They have five children.
        1. CERISS (2016), born September 3, 1954. Married June 27, 1974.
        2. DELLA (2017), born November 16, 1955. Married December 7, 1973
        3. DEWAYNE (2018), born March 20, 1957.
        4. CHRYSTAL SMITH (3354), born November 19, 1963.
        5. CAROLYN SMITH (3355), born May 13, 1966.
      6. BARBARA LOWING (2012) was the sixth child of Walter and Charlotte Lowing, born March 28, 1937.
      7. ALBERT LOWING (2013), was born March 28,1938.
    3. MAYBELL (LOWING) RECTOR (1265), the second child of Isaac and Lettie Lowing, was born March 13,1892. She married Orrin T. Rector (2019), February 28, 1918, at Baltimore, Maryland. Maybell died February 9, 1933. Ten children were born to this marriage.
      1. LETA E. (RECTOR) VANDERWIG (2020), oldest child was born October 18, 1918. She married John VanderWig (2030) August 18, 1952.
      2. ORRIN G. RECTOR (2021), was born May 30, 1920. He married Betty Jean Switzer (2031), March 12, 1940. Orrin died December 11, 1943. Three children were born to this union.
        1. EDITH (RECTOR) FALON (2032), oldest daughter of Orrin and Betty Rector was born December 5, 1940. She married Gordon Falon (2035), December 18, 1957 at Jackson, Michigan. They have two children.
          1. KENNETH GORDON (2036), born February 21, 1958.
          2. KEVIN LEE (2037), born December 15,1959.
        2. LILLIAN RECTOR (2033), born December 26, 1941.
        3. NANCY RECTOR (2034), born December 26, 1942.
      3. RAYMOND E. RECTOR (2022), was the third child born to Orrin and Maybell Rector. He was born August 26, 1921. He married Mae Robinson, (2035) August 8, 1947 at Columbia, South Carolina. They have three children.
        1. KENNETH R. RECTOR (2039), born September 12, 1948
        2. JACK RECTOR (2040), born December 18, 1953.
        3. RONNIE J. RECTOR (2041), born November 9,1955.
      4. DONALD DELL RECTOR (2023), fourth child born November 10, 1922 and died September 22, 1928.
      5. ORPHA M. (RECTOR) KITSON (2024), the fifth child of Orrin and Maybell Rector was born July 13, 1924. She married Dale K. Kitson (2042), January 9, 1944 at Flint Michigan. Five children were born to this marriage.
        1. MARSHA L (2043), born January 31, 1947.
        2. DENISE K (2044), born January 6, 1949.
        3. KAREN L. (2045), born July 13, 1950.
        4. MARK S. (2046), born May 17, 1952.
        5. DOUGLAS D (2047), born May 11, 1954.
      6. KEITH M. RECTOR (2025), was the sixth child born December 19,1925. He married Barbara L. Fulk (2048) April 21, 1946. at Lakehurst, New Jersey. They have six children.
        1. JAMES (2049), born April 1, 1947.
        2. LINDA (2050), born June 8, 1949.
        3. DAVID (2051), born August 7, 1950
        4. MIKE (2052), born October 10, 1954.
        5. DONALD (2053), born July 7, 1958 and died July 8, 1958.
        6. TIMOTHY (2054), born May 27,1959.
      7. BETTY J. (RECTOR) BYRNES (2026), seventh child born to Orrin and Maybell Rector was born February 18, 1927. She was adopted out and named Carolyn Cunningham. She married Paul Byrnes (2055), August 4, 1945. They have five children.
        1. BERNARD C (2056), born June 12, 1950.
        2. GARY P (2057), born April 10, 1952.
        3. DENNIS (2058), born June 5,1955.
        4. JON (2059), born December 13, 1956.
        5. JOAN (2060), born December 13, 1956, twin of Jon.
      8. MARY A. (RECTOR) MCALARY (2027), eighth child born March 28, 1929 and was adopted out as Mary A. VandenBurg. She married Gaylord McAlary (2061) July 24, 1948 and they have three children.
        1. LINDA J (2062). born December 24, 1948.
        2. VICKI G. (2063), born February 20, 1951.
        3. DANNY L. (2064) born March 27,1957.
      9. SYLVIA A. (RECTOR) VINING (2028), ninth child born to Orrin and Maybell Rector was born August 26, 1930 and adopted out as D. Arlene Croff. She married Roger Vining (2065), August 27, 1949 at Big Rapids, Michigan. They have three children.
        1. MIKE R. (2066), born August 12,1950.
        2. FRANK A. (2067), born August 5, 1952.
        3. RANDY L (2068), born October 31, 1953.
      10. GEORGE RECTOR (2029), tenth and last child died at birth February 7,1933.
    4. ALLEN W. LOWING (1267), third child of Isaac and Lettie Lowing, born September 20,1899. He married Rachel Lowell (2069), September 20, 1924 and had two children prior to their divorce. He married Mabel Mekkes (2072), April 4, 1943 and they have one child. Mabel passed away January 26, 1964. Allen served in the Armed Services during World War II and works for the City of Wyoming. At age 67, Allan passed away on March 9, 1967. Buried in the Rosedale Memorial Park, Grand Rapids
      1. JAMES LOWING (2070), first child born to Allen and Rachel Lowing was born August 20, 1924. He married Blanch Mekkes (2074), April 4, 1947. They have two children.
        1. SUZANNE (LOWING) GARZA (2075), born July 14, 1947. Married to Ruben Garza (3356), June 24, 1967.
          1. TERESA SUE GARZA (3357), born February 20, 1973.
        2. JEAN ANN (2076), born May 26, 1950.
      2. MARIAN (LOWING) KENWORTHY (2071), second child born to Allen and Rachel Lowing was born January 22, 1927. She married John Kenworthy (2077), June 3, 1944, and they have four children.
        1. MARY J. (2078), born July 30, 1945.
        2. WILLIAM J (2079), born February 6, 1947.
        3. JEAN D. (2080), born July 8, 1949
        4. FREDRICK A (2081), born November 17, 1954.
      3. WESLEY L LOWING (2073), first child born to Allen and Mabel Lowing, was born October 16, 1944. Married Linda Lou VanDrunen (3358), July 1967.
        1. KAIRI SUE LOWING (3359), born July 14, 1968.
        2. KRISTI LYNN LOWING (3360), born November 23, 1971.
        3. KONNI BETH LOWING (3361), born November 24, 1975.
  • ROSE E. (LOWING) WICKHAM (51), seventh child born to Holden and Eleanor Lowing was born July 29, 1865 in Georgetown Township. She married Charles Wickham (107), October 9, 1892, who was born in 1864 and died in 1946. Rose died April 25, 1937 and is buried in Georgetown Cemetery. Four children were born to this marriage, but all died in infancy.
    1. BENTON H. WICKHAM (1268), bony April 14, 1897, died May 5, 1897.
    2. LELA B. WICKHAM (1269), born 1901 and died 1908.
    3. ELLEN C. WICKHAM (1270), (twin) born June 3, 1907,died May 21, 1908
    4. HELEN C. WICKHAM (1271), (twin) born June 3,1907,died May 25,1908
  • DORA (LOWING) ULBERG (52), born November 24, 1866, was the eighth child and third daughter born to Holden and Eleanor Lowing. Her childhood was spent in working around the household helping her mother and caring for the large family. Many times the girls were obliged to do the work assigned to the boys of the family, because the boys would leave the wood pile and go off into the woods hunting. Undoubtedly the urge to hunt and explore came from their pioneer parents and grand parents, who spent their entire lives in the forests, clearing land and hunting as a necessity. She married Edward P. Ulberg (108), a farmer, June 20, 1889. He died May IS, 1921, and Dora died August 3, 1947, both are buried in the Georgetown Cemetery. Four children were born to this marriage.
    1. ELLA (ULBERG) PEARSON (1272), the oldest child of Edward and Dora Ulberg, was born April 7,1890. She married Albert Pearson (1276), May 10, 1911, who died January 17, 1919, at Denver, Colorado. After the death of her husband, Ella spent some time at the Winabago Indian Mission until she was called home due to the death of her father. She lived with and cared for her mother until her death. While her mother was still in good health, Ella did practical nursing. No children were born to this union. Ella passed away June 11, 1982, at age of 92. Burial at Allendale.
    2. CLARENCE C. ULBERG (1273), the second child and only son of Edward and Dora Ulberg, was born January 29, 1892. After graduation from the Canada Hill Grade School, he attended the McLaughlin Business College in Grand Rapids. He married Verna R. Swanson (1277), a schoolteacher from Allendale, Michigan, on June 20, 191 S. The early part of their marriage was spent on the Edward Ulberg farm, located one mile north of Bauer, in Georgetown Township. While living on this fare, he served on the school board of the Chrysler School; was Secretary of the Bauer Threshing Association; Secretary of the Bauer Creamery Company; and member of the Ottawa County Farm Bureau. Later lie served as agent and adjuster for the State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company for a period of 30 years. He later moved to Grandville, Michigan and served as mayor of that city for a period of five years. He has served on the Kent County Board of Supervisors for more than fourteen years. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Grandville Rotary Club for a number of years, holding the offices of Secretary and Vice President and was President Elect for the year 1962-3 for that organization. Three children were born of that marriage. Clarence C. Ulberg passed away September 24, 1976. Verna Swanson Ulberg passed Jan 3, 1983. Both are buried in Georgetown Cemetery.
      1. CRANNEL EDWARD ULBERG (1278), eldest child of Clarence and Verna Ulberg was born April 2, 1921. He graduated from Hudsonville High School and attended Grand Rapids Junior College, University of Grand Rapids, and Fordham University. He served in the armed services for a period of three years during World War II, saving in France, Belgium, Holland and Germany with the 329th Combat Engineer Battalion, 104th (Timberwolf) Infantry Division. While home on leave, he married Suzette J. Groendyke (2084), a dental assistant of Grandville, on July 12, 1945. After his discharge from service he established an office in Wyoming, Michigan. He has acted as Precinct Delegate for the Republican Party, is a past president of the Hudsonville High School Alumnae Association; Past President of the Wyoming Park Businessmen's Association; Charter Secretary, and Past President of the Wyoming Park Rotary Club. Two boys were born of this marriage. Crannel passed away September 7, 1982, aged 61. Buried in the Georgetown Cemetery.
        1. BRIAN EDWARD ULBERG (2085), born December 15, 1957. Married July 11, 1981 to Dawn Lynette Clemens (3362), born December 10, 1960, daughter of Dale and Geraldine Clemens of Wyoming.
          1. ANGELA SUZETTE ULBERG (3363), born January 28, 1987.
          2. TRAVIS LYN ULBERG (3364), born October 15, 1989.
        2. BRUCE HOLDEN (2086), born April 25, 1961.
      2. KENNETH J. ULBERG (2082), born February 8, 1924, was the second son born to Clarence and Verna Ulberg. He graduated from Grandville High School in June 1943 and immediately enlisted in the Army Air Force on June 12,1943 during World War II. He served in the European Theatre as a gunner on a B-17 Bomber, completing 35 missions over Germany, receiving the Air Medal with 5 Oak Leaf Clusters, three bronze stars to the E.A.M.E. theatre medal and a good conduct medal. Five of his missions were over Berlin. He attained the rank of Staff Sergeant. After his discharge from service in October 1945 he attended Grand Rapids Junior College prior to his marriage to B. Doreen Rasmussen (2087), January 17,1948. He was active in Little League Baseball and Scout work. He served three years on the Board of Directors of the Grandville Little League, and has served as its secretary. He also managed a team for four years, Kenneth was a traveling salesman for the ?Great Lakes ? Distributing Company. Eight children were born of t his marriage.
        1. DAVID C. ULBERG (2088), born September 28, 1948. Passed away April 26, 1971, buried in Wyoming Cemetery, Grandville
        2. DARYL S. ULBER (2089) born October 26, 1949. Married May 24, 1986 to Georgie Edinger.
        3. VALERIE A. (ULBERG) BALL, MORAWA (2090), born July 31, 1951. Married Craig Ball (3365) July 15, 1972. Divorced. Remarried December 31, 1978 to William Morawa (3368).
          1. ANDREA MEGAN BALL (3366), born May 30, 1974.
          2. TATE MICHAEL DAVID BALL (3367), born November 10, 1975
        4. ROYCE DOUGLAS ULBERG (2091), born January 18,1953. Married Dawn Raenel Daggett (3369), April 27, 1974.
          1. KEVIN JAMES ULBERG (3370), born June 25, 1977.
          2. MARK ALLEN ULBERG (3371), born March 28, 1980.
          3. JOSHUA DAVID ULBERG (3372), born November 18, 1983.
        5. DWIGHT K. ULBERG (2092), born July 3,1954.
        6. JED A. ULBERG (2093), born January 5, 1956.
        7. MAURICE B. ULBERG (2094), born April 16, 1958.
        8. MARCELYN KAY (ULBERG) WYNSMA (2095), born November 11, 1960. Married August 22, 1980 to Gary Allen Wynsma (3373).
          1. LINDSEY KATHLEEN WYNSMA (3374), born August 7, 1983.
          2. TROY ALLEN WYNSMA (3375), born July 26, 1986.
          3. WIHTNEY LEIGH WYNSMA (3376), born and died August 24,1990.
        9. STEPHEN DWAYNE ULBERG (2825), born March 10, 1963.
      3. MERLE D. ULBERG (2083), third son born to Clarence and Verna Ulberg on November 3, 1926. He graduated from Grandville High School in June 1943 as Salutatorian. While attending General Motors Institute, he enlisted in the Army Air Force as a Cadet. After his discharge in November of 1945, he continued his studies and graduated with an Industrial Engineering Degree. While in school he was associated with the Phi Tau Alpha Fraternity, Editor of the college yearbook and member of Roberts Honorary Society. He married Barbara Van Dyke (2096) January 10, 1948. Merle served on the Grandville City Commission for five years (a position he still holds). He was Chairman of the Planning Commission, a member of the Grandville Board of Zoning Appeals and a member of the Library ?Board. He is employed as Senior Methods Engineer for the Brunswick Corporation of Muskegon, Michigan. Three daughters were born of this marriage.
        1. LYNN A. (ULBERG) HASCHER (2097), born March 24 1949. Married Frederick Hascher, Jr. (3377), March 20, 1970.
          1. JODI LYNN HASCHER (3378), born January 13, 1979.
          2. JULIE SUE IIASCHER (3379), born April 11, 1982
        2. SUSAN C. (ULBERG) MULLIGAN (2098), born March 20, 1950. Married S. Craig Mulligan (3380), February 14, 1969.
          1. MICHELLE LYNNE MULLIGAN (3381), born July 11, 1969.
          2. MELISSA SUE MULLIGAN (3382), born August 14, 1974.
          3. MEGAN ANN MULLIGAN (3383), born May 28, 1979.
        3. PATRICIA JEAN (ULBERG) SNYDER (2099), born December 9, 1956. Married J. Wayne Snyder (3384), May 16, 1975.
          1. SCOTT ALAN SNYDER (3385), born September 14, 1979.
          2. SARAH MARIE SNYDER (3386), born December 16, 1982.
    3. EDITH ULBERG (1274) was the third child and second daughter born to Edward and Dora Ulberg. She was born January 13, 1894 and died at the age of 21 on November 19,1916, burial in the Georgetown Cemetery. She was not married.
    4. ADDIE (ULBERG) THOMPSON (1275) was the fourth child born to Edward and Dora Ulberg on December 28, 1896. She married Clifford Thompson (1279), October 20, 1917, who lives in Grandville, Mich. Addie died November 10, 1933, burial in Wyoming Cemetery. Two sons were born to this marriage.
      1. LEON W. THOMPSON (1280), eldest son of Clifford and Addie Thompson, was born January 2, 1918. He is a graduate of Grandville High School and attended Davenport Institute. He married Isabel Brown (2100) February 4, 1938. Leon is a traveling salesman and lives in St Louis, Missouri. Three children were born to this union. Leon passed away May 20, 1971, buried in Kirkwood, Missouri.
        1. SHARON (THOMPSON) KUHLENSCHMIDT (2101), the oldest of three daughters born to Leon and Isabel Thompson, was born Dec ember 2, 1938. She is a graduate of Evansville High School, Evansville, Indiana. She married Keith Kuhlenschmidt (2104), September 12, 1958. Both attended college at the present time. They have two children.
          1. GAIL LYNNE (KUHLENSCHMIDT) THOMPSON (2105), born July 1, 1961. Married December 28, 1984 to Joseph E Thompson, Jr. (3390).
            1. JOSEPH FREDERICK THOMPSON III (3391), born September 29, 1985
            2. GRACE ELIZABETH THOMPSON (3392), born December 5, 1989.
          2. CHERYL RENEE (KUHLENSCHMIDT) MIYAHARA (3387), born April 12, 1964. Married December 14, 1986 to Leonard Miyahara (3388).
            1. DREW KAZUTO MIYAHARA (3389), born September 5, 1989.
        2. MARSHA LYNNE (THOMPSON) BISHOP (2102), born September 28, 1940. She married Jack Richard Bishop (2826) on December 29, 1962
          1. DAWN RENE BISHOP (3393), born May 20, 1988
        3. CONSTANCE GAEL (THOMPSON) ROBERTSON (2103), born February 27, 1942. She married James David Robertson (2827), July 13, 1963.
          1. SHAWN LEE ROBERTSON (3394), born July 16, 1965.
          2. JAMES ROBERTSON (3397), born April 19, 1970.
          3. DANIEL SEUNG HWAN ROBERTSON (3395), born June 15, 1973, adopted.
          4. MICHAEL KEITH ROBERTSON (3396), born July 14, 1975, adopted.
      2. RUSSELL THOMPSON (1281), the second son of Clifford and Addie Thompson, was born February 24, 1923. He married Doris Krupp (2106) April 30, 1949 and has one stepson, Timothy. Russell is manager of the Kent County Abstract Office. He graduated from Grandville High School end enlisted in the Army Air Force January 3, 1942. Served in Australia during World War 11, end was severely wounded July 1, 1942 when his plane was forced down due to enemy fire. He attained the rank of Sergeant and was honorably discharged September 20, 1945. Russell lives in Grandville Michigan.
  • WILLIAM RILEY LOWING (53), the ninth child born to Holden and Eleanor Lowing was born September 30, 1869 in Georgetown Township. He was married June 1, 1893 to Mary Ulberg (79). He resided on a farm near the Holden Lowing homestead the greater part of his life. He operated a store in Grandville for a few years, but returned to his farm where he lived until his death. He was very active in the Grange and served as Master of the Georgetown Grange and also as Master of the Ottawa County Pamona Grange. Will also served as Treasurer of Georgetown Township. He was known as a "Good Samaritan" and influential citizen. He died June 21, 1935, Mary died July 16, 1947 and both are buried in the Georgetown Cemetery. Seven children were born to this marriage.
    1. ARTHUR LOWING (1282), was the first child born to Will and Mary Lowing on June 25, 1894. He married Vina Morrell (2108) June 28, 1916. Arthur was a salesman and member of the Odd Fellows Lodge. They lived in Wyoming Michigan. One child was born to this union. Arthur passed away at age 86 on April 29, 1981. Villa passed away October 4, 1983.
      1. EILEEN L. (LOWING) BOONSTRA (2109), only child born to Arthur and Vina Lowing was born April 18, 1920. She married George J. Boonstra (2110), February 14, 1946. Eileen is an a ccountant and her husband a supply clerk. No children have been born to this marriage. They live in Grand Rapids, MI. George died October 24, 1987.
    2. ERVIN LOWING (1283), the second child of Will end Mary Lowing was bony on July 27, 1898. He married Bernice Klekatka (2111), June 24, 1925. Ervin was Superintendent for the Jervis Corporation in Grandville, where they resided. They had one child. Ervin, aged 86 passed away August 11, 1984. Buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
      1. VIRGINIA (LOWING) STELLARD DYKSTERHOUSE (2112), only child of Ervin and Bernice Lowing was born April It, 1927. She married William Stellard (2113), May 29, 1948. They have three children. Married April 16,1966 to Raymond Dyksterhouse (3398). He was born January 11, 1921. Virginia died July29, 1990, aged 63, buried in Rosedale Memorial Park. Raymond passed away September 23,1990.
        1. DONALD E. STELLARD (2114), born July 12, 1949. Married on August 11, 1973 to Mary Katherine Meczkowski (3399), born 1953.
          1. SEASON ELIZABETH STELARD (3400), born February 28,1979.
        2. LINDA C. (STELLARD) HARTIGH, VANDERJAGT (2115) born May 12,195 1. Married Terrance Hartigh (3401), May 29, 1971. Married May 1, 1976 to Wayne Douglas VanderJagt (3402), born November 4, 1950, son of Leonard VanderJagt and Flora (Rysdyk) VanderJagt.
          1. ERIN ELIZABETH VANDER JAGT (3403), born April 19, 1978.
          2. AMBER MARIE VANDER JAGT (3404), born, October 25, 1982.
        3. SHARON K. (STELLARD) DUIMSTRA (2116), born November 20,1954. Married August 2,1980 to Bruce Duimstra (3405), born August 5, 1952
          1. JUSTIN JAMES DUIMSTRA (3406), born July 3, 1983.
    3. LILAH (LOWING) KELLEY (1284) was the third child of William and Mary Lowing, born January 28, 1901. She married Harold Kelley (2117) in 1928. Lilah a graduate nurse spent some time in this profession prior to her marriage. She and her husband resided on a farm near Sturgis, Michigan. They had four children. Lilah died January 23, 1985, buried in Sturgis, Michigan.
      1. BONNIE (KELLEY) WHEELER, (2118) the first child of Harold and Lilah was born April 2, 1930. She married Stanley Wheeler (2122), August 15, 1949. They have two children.
        1. MARK (2123), born April 6, 1951.
        2. STEPHEN (2124), born July 6, 1954.
      2. MARY J. (KELLEY) TAYLOR (2119), the second child was born January 3, 1933. She married Marlin Taylor (2175), May 18, 1952. Mary is a graduate of Sturgis High School. They live near Sturgis and have four children.
        1. TWYLA TAYLOR (2126), born June 3, 1958.
        2. MARVIN TAYLOR (2127), born Jan 25, 1960. Passed away September 30,1961.
        3. BRYAN DE VON TAYLOR (3407), born April 7, 1963. Passed away June 8, 1982, aged 19. Buried Oaklawn Cemetery, Sturgis, MI.
        4. MELVIN LAVON TAYLOR (3408), born November 3, 1964.
      3. WILLIAM KELLEY (2120), the third child of Harold and Utah Kelley, was born June 9,1934. He married Eleanor Studerman (2128), June 9, 1956. William is a farmer. He graduated from Sturgis High School and attended Michigan State University prior to two years served in the Armed Services. They have four children.
        1. WILLIAM LAWRENCE KELLEY (2129), born March 25, 1958.
        2. CHERYL KELLEY (2131), born April 18, 1959
        3. LYNDON LEE KELLEY (3409), born February 14, 1962.
        4. KENTON DARNELL KELLEY (3410), born May 25, 1965.
      4. LARRY KELLEY (2121) was the fourth child born to Harol and Lilah Kelley, born March 13, 1936. Married Marilyn Pueschel, (2131) Mary 24, 1958. Larry is a graduate of Sturgis High School, served two years in the Armed Forces and is a farmer near Sturgis. They have four children.
        1. DEBRA SUE (2132), born June 25, 1959.
        2. KRISTIN KELLEY (3411), born May 10, 1962
        3. ROBERT KELLEY (3412), born November 16, 1963.
        4. LOREN KELLEY (3413), born February 23, 1965.
    4. DORIS (LOWING) CHEYNE (1285), the fourth child, was born to Will and Mary Lowing on March 7,1902. She married Floyd Cheyne (1289), June 1, 1922, who died July 12, 1961, burial in the Coopersville Cemetery. They had three children. Doris died September 6, 1985 and was buried in the Georgetown Cemetery.
      1. LORRAINE (CHEYNE) RIDER (2133), the first child of Floyd and Doris Cheyne was born June 7,1926. She married Leon Rider (2136), and they have two children.
        1. LYNNETH (2137), born May 13, 1951.
        2. ALAN (2138), born July 21, 1952.
      2. LOIS (CHEYNE) SPENCER (2134), second child born to Floyd and Doris Cheyne was born September 18,1931. She married George Spencer (2139) June 14, 1950. They have four children.
        1. DENNIS (2140), born October 10, 1950.
        2. DAVID (2141), born April 13, 1954.
        3. EUGENE (2142), born October 27, 1955.
        4. TONJA (2143), born July 14,1960)
      3. FLOYD ALDEN CHEYNE (2135), third child of Floyd and Doris Cheyne, was born November 25, 1942. He is not married.
    5. HAROLD C. LOWING (1286), fifth child of William and Mary Lowing, was born on May 29,1905. He married Doris DeNeff (2144) of Allendale, June 28, 1930. Harold and his wife both served Georgetown Township as Treasurer. He was postmaster at Jenison, Michigan. They resided on the William Lowing homestead. One child was born to this marriage. Doris died Sept 6, 1985. Harold died March 26, 1988. Both are buried in the Georgetown Cemetery.
      1. BARBARA JEAN (LOWING) BRINK, (2145) only child born to Harold and Doris Lowing on October 25,1931. She graduated from Hudsonville High School and attended Hope College before her marriage to Irvin Brink (2146), October 9, 1954. They have four children.
        1. JEANNE MARIE (BRINK) LINDELL (2147), born April 23 1961. Married January 8, 1983 to Jay Lindell (3414).
        2. ANNE RENEE BRINK (2818), born February 2, 1963.
        3. ROBERT LOWING BRINK (3415), born November 24, 1965
        4. MARY LYNNE BRINK (3416), born January 15, 1967.
    6. GERALD LOWING (1287), sixth child of Will and Mary Lowing, was born April 3, 1909. He is a graduate of Grandville High School and Barber Chiropractor College. Previously he had taken courses in Building Contracting. Gerald married Helen Howe (2148) in 1941 and is a practicing Chiropractor. He adopted the son of his wife's by a previous marriage, Donald Lee Howe (3417). Gerald married his second wife, Bernadine (3418) June 18, 1962. She passed away in Mexico City, Mexico on October 8, 1971. Buried at Oakland Hills Memorial Gardens. Gerald died October 4, 1983. His wife Pauline also passed away.
    7. WILLIAM STEWART LOWING (2188), the last child born to William and Mary Lowing, born December 25, 1916. He married Cornelia Blanker (2150) October 2_"3, 1937. Stewart worked in Plant Protection for the Diesel Division of General Motors Corporation in Wyoming, Michigan, where he resided. They had three children. Cornelia, aged 62, passed away July 4, 1980. William remarried Eva Bronkema (3419), June 10, 1983. William died September 27, 1985 and is buried at Resurrection Cemetery.
      1. CAROLYN S. (LOWING) BAGIN (2151), born November 5, 1940. She was a nurse before her marriage February 24, 1962 to Robert H. Bagin (2154). They reside in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
        1. ROBERT LOUIS BAGIN (2829), born May 1, 1963
        2. PAUL ALAN BAGIN (3420), born February 2, 1965.
        3. SUSAN MARIE BAGIN (3421), born July 8, 1969
      2. WILLIAM N. LOWING (2152), born October 23, 1949. Married Mary Jo Leonard (3422) July 1971, divorced. Married Patti Jane Petrick (3424), September 18, 1976, she was born December 3, 1952.
        1. ADAM CLARK LOWING (3423), born October 30, 1972.
      3. MARY RITA (LOWING) GARVELINK (2153), born November 30, 1952. Married June 11, 1977 to James Lee Garvelink (3425), son of Mr. & Mrs. Ray Garvelink
        1. LINDSEY ANN GARVELINK (3426), born December 15, 1979.
  • JOHN HOLDEN LOWING (54), was the tenth child born to Holden and Eleanor Lowing and was born April 8, 1872. He married Clara Ulberg (109), December 31, 1896. Except for a short time spent in Holland, Mich. he lived on a f arm given to him by his father Holden at the intersection of what is now known as Bauer Road and 28th St. in Georgetown Township. John was active in the Grange and was a charter member of the Bauer Community Band and was a member of this band until it was discontinued many years later. He and his brother William attended rehearsals regularly, although it meant driving a horse 2 1/2 miles to Bauer. They were instrumental in encouraging a number of others to join the band, among them Roy and Floyd, nephews and sons of their brother Otis. John also loved to sing and often sang in the church choir. His wife Clara, the last living second-generation descendant of the Holden Lowing family, died February 26, 1971. John died June 20, 1914, burial in the Georgetown Cemetery. Both are buried in the Georgetown Cemetery. They had two children.
    1. THEDA (LOWING) KONING (1290), was the oldest child born to John and Clara Lowing and was born November 21, 1901. She married Hiram Koning (2155), February 24, 1927. They lived on the John Lowing farm with Theda's mother. Hiram passed away March 4,1963 and is buried in the Georgetown Cemetery. They have two children. Theda passed away October 6, 1971, buried Georgetown Cemetery.
      1. ROGER KONING (2156), is the first child born to Hiram and Theda Koning and was born October 14, 1932. He married Esther Timmer (2158), July 1, 1959. They have two children.
        1. DAWN L. (KONING) WUSTMAN (2159), born August 12, 1960. Married August 5, 1983 to Scott Wustman (3427).
          1. MICHAEL SCOTT WUSTMAN (3428), born October 21, 1985.
          2. JENNIFER LYNN WUSTMAN (3429), born July 3, 1988.
        2. DAVID WUSTMAN
        3. DOUGLAS ROGER KONING (3039), born July 7, 1964. Married October 18, 1985 to Kimberly Etterbeek (3430). Second marriage to Susan Schut (3432) on July 22, 1989.
          1. KATHERYN MARIE KONING (3431), born October 12, 1988.
      2. SHIRLEY (KONING) VANDER MOLEN (2157) was the second child born to Hiram and Theda Koning, on March 7, 1934. Shirley taught school prior to her marriage June 22, 1956 to Gene P. Vander Molen (2160). They have two children.
        1. BRADLEY G. VANDER MOLEN (2161), born July 7, 1957.
        2. KURT J. VANDER MOLEN (2162), born January 22, 1959. Married June 29, 1985 to Ellen Boersman (3433).
    2. LESTER LOWING (1291) was the second child born to John and Clara Lowing, September 29, 1905. He married Sadie VanderMarkt (2162), October 23,1926. Lester has been employed at the Michigan Consolidated Gas Company since his youth. They live in Wyoming and have four children.
      1. KENNETH LOWING (2164), is the oldest child of Lester and Sadie Lowing and was born February 14, 1930. He married Sarah Zuverink (2163), May 29, 1951. They have two children, divorced. He remarried on September 25, 1971 to June M. Gillean (3434), born June 4, 1929.
        1. KATHLEEN LOWING HOLLEMAN (2169), born July 8, 1951. Husband Holleman (3435).
          1. APRIL JOY HOLLEMAN (3436), born April 17, 1981.
        2. BRUCE LOWING (2170), born December 20, 1956. Married May 22, 1982 to Sara Aberhamson (3437), daughter of Ward Aberhamson of Ludington.
          1. STEPHANIE ANN LOWING (3438), born October 22, 1984.
      2. PAULINE (LOWING) PETERSON (2165), is the second child of Lester and Sadie Lowing and was born November 5, 1932. She married Cecil Peterson (2171), February 20,1953. They have four children.
        1. DIANE (PETERSON BRIGGS, VAN LEEUWEN (2172) born June 1, 1955. Married on December 6, 1974 to Kim A. Briggs (3439), born April 9, 1955. Married Van Leeuwen (3440).
          1. MATHEW VAN LEEUWEN (3441), born September 1984.
          2. MARY BETH VAN LEEUWEN (3442), born February 15 1987.
        2. ROBERT PETERSON (2173), born November 8, 1956. Married November 5, 1976 to Cindy Molenkamp (3443).
          1. AMY RENAE PETERSON (3444), born June 14, 1979.
          2. ROBERT JOHN PETERSON (3445), born November 1981.
        3. JAMES PETERSON (3446), born September 22, 1961. Married July 23, 1981 to Amy VanTuinen (3447).
          1. MICHAEL PETERSON (3448), born February 1982.
        4. BRENDA PETERSON (3449), born December 6, 1963.
      3. MARILYN (LOWING) BARKER (2166), is the third child of Lester and Sadie Lowing, and was born September 6, 1934. She married Leo Barker (2174), August 14, 1953. They have six children.
        1. NANCY (BARKER) RITTENHOUSE (2175), born May 29, 1954. Married on August 25, 1972 to Daniel Rittenhouse (3450), born February 20, 1954.
          1. JAIME AT-AN RITTENHOUSE (3451), born August 11, 1973.
          2. ERIC MICHAL RITTENHOUSE (3452), born December 31, 1974.
          3. JASON LEE RTTTENHOUSE (3453), born May 25, 1978.
        2. RONALD BARKER (2176), born December 14, 1956. Married August 1, 1981 to Jacqueline Piell (3454), born December 15, 1950.
          1. NATHAN ANDREW BARKER (3455), born September 25, 1984.
          2. JOSHUA DAVID PIELL BARKER (3456), born January 30, 1987.
        3. DAVID BARKER (2177), born May 1, 1959. Married July 22, 1983 to Cheryl DeKorne (3457), born June 29,1960.
          1. DAVID ALAN BARKER (3458) , born May 17, 1987.
          2. JENNIFER RANEE BARKER (3459), born May 5, 1989.
        4. MARCIA JANE (BARKER) JANICKI (3460), born April 25, 1963. Married February 14, 1988 to Randy Janicki (3463).
          1. RANDY MEGAN JANICKI (3464), born September 25, 1988.
          2. ASHLEY KAUILANI JANICKI (3465), born April 17, 1990.
        5. GREGORY LEE BARKER (3461), born May 22, 1968. Married August 5, 1988 to Kimberley Joy Bennett (3466).
        6. JULIE KAY BARKER (3462), born December 20, 1974.
      4. JANET (LOWING) VAN DYKE (2167) is the fourth child of Lester and Sadie Lowing, born August 4, 1939. She married Andrew VanDyke (2178), September 19, 1958. They have two children.
        1. JAMES VAN DYKE (3467), born July 25, 1964. Married Pamela Batma (3469).
          1. HEATHER SUE VAN DYKE (3470), born April 1984.
        2. SUSAN LYNN VAN DYKE ((3468), born February 23,1973.
  • EVA ANNETTE (LOWING) LADEWIG (55), was the eleventh child born to Holden and Eleanor Lowing. "Nettie" was born February 9, 1875. She married Charles Ladewig (110) in Georgetown Township, September 19, 1894. He died in 1944 and Nettie died January 5, 1953. Both are buried in the Georgetown Cemetery. Eight children were born to this marriage.
    1. CARL H. LADEWIG (1292), is the oldest child of Charles and Nettie Ladewig and was born September 18, 1895. He married Angeline Poot (1300), November 6,1915. He worked as a printing pressman until his recent retirement. Carl is a member of the Grange and has served as Master of Talmadge Grange and as Master of Ottawa County Pamona Grange. He is a member of the Masonic Lodge. His hobby is nurseryman and is well known for his beautiful rose gardens. Two children were born to this marriage. Carl Passed away November 28, 1968 and Angeline September 8, 1968. Both are buried in the Georgetown Cemetery.
      1. CARL J. LADEWIG, JR. (1301), was the first child born to Carl and Angeline Ladewig. He was born June 15, 1917. On November 3, 1945 he married Betty Burri (1302). They have three children.
        1. CURIA (LADEWIG) HARRINGTON (2179), born June 27, 1948. She married James Harrington (3470) on September 12, 1963.
          1. LNDA JEAN HARRINGTON (3471), born March 15, 1966.
        2. NANCY (LADEWIG) LINDBERG (2180), born January 6,1950. Married Kenneth Lindberg (3472), March 25,1907.
          1. ROBIN LEIGH LINDBERG (3473), born October 9, 1967
        3. JAMES (2181), born December 31, 1954.
      2. HENRY LADEWIG (1303) was the second child born to Carl and Angeline Ladewig on February 24, 1921. He married Josephine Horton (2182), March 28, 1941. Henry served in Italy during World War II, and became shell-shocked. They have four children.
        1. VIVIAN (LADEWIG) REYERS (2183), born January 31, 1943. She married Larry Reyers (2830), February 10, 1962.
          1. DEBRA REYERS (2831), born December 1, 1962
          2. BRENDA ANN REVERS (3474), born Nov 2, 1964
        2. HENRY A. LADEWIG JR (2184) was born September 6, 1944. He married Rosemarie E. Anthony (3041) of Tacoma, Washington on August 15, 1964
          1. CYNTHIA ELLEN LADEWIG (3475), born April 11, 1965.
          2. DAWN LADEWIG, (3476) born November 11, 1966.
        3. TOMMY (2185), twin of Johnny, born October 10, 1947.
        4. JOHNNY (2186), twin of Tommy, born October 10, 1947.
    2. JOHN LADEWIG (2193), was the second son born to Charles and Nettie Ladewig. He was born March 29, 1897. He married Ruth Telder (1308), December 31, 1920. He like his brother Carl is a Printing Pressman. They have no children
    3. ALBERT HENRY LADEWIG (1294), was the third child of Charles and Nettie Ladewig and was born February 8, 1899. He married Minnie Eva Wells (1304), March 6,1922. She died November 25, 1957. They had one child. Albert passed away January 9, 1982, buried Greenwood Cemetery, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
      1. VIRGINIA E. (LADEWIG) TERRELL (1305), was the only child of Albert and Minnie Ladewig who was born November 2, 1921. She married Wendell Leroy Terrell (2187), February 14, 1941. They have two children.
        1. DAVID M. TERRELL (2188) was born August 29,1943. Married Anne Winters (3477), January 28,1966
        2. DANNY E.TERRELL (2189), born May 26, 1947.
    4. MYRTLE (LADEWIG) LENNING (1295), was the fourth child of Charles and Nettie Ladewig and was born January 23, 1901. She married William Lenning (1306) a Captain in the Grand Rapids Police Department, August 8, 1918. William passed away March 31, 1966, interment at Woodlawn Cemetery, Grand Rapids, Michigan. They have two children. Myrtle passed away, age 76, April 29, 1977, buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
      1. WILMA (LENNING) HEYDENBERK (1307), is the eldest child of William and Myrtle Lenning and was born January 12, 1922. She married Donald Heydenberk (2191) February 28, 1942. He is manager of the AP Johnson Printing Co. They have three children.
        1. ROBERT A. HEYDENBERK (2192), born March 12, 1944. He married Judy Austin (3042) on August 22, 1964.
          1. CAROL JOAN HEYDENBERK (3478), born January 11, 1965.
        2. BA PAY HEYDENBERK (2193), born May 18, 1947. Married Barbara Thompson (3479), September 23, 1966.
          1. BARRY RONALD HEYDENBERK, JR (3480), born January 25, 1967.
          2. BRETT LOUIS HEYDENBERK (3481), born June 30, 1968.
        3. WILLIAM (2194), born October 5, 1948.
      2. HAZEL (LENNING) SCOTT (2190), is the second child of William and Myrtle Lenning and was born Ma y 27, 1925. She married Gene Scott (2195), March 21, 1958. He is a machinist in Sheet Metal Laboratory. Hazel passed away May 31, 1963. Burial at Woodlawn Cemetery in Grand Rapids, Mich. They had no children.
    5. LAWRENCE LADEWIG (1296) was the fifth child of Charles and Nettie Ladewig, born January 7, 1903. He is a printer and married Gertrude Chlebowski (2196) March 30,1923. They have three children. Lawrence, at age 74, passed away March 9, 1977 in Holland, Michigan.
      1. DONALD LADEWIG (2197), is the oldest child of Lawrence and Gertrude Ladewig and was born December 5, 1925. He married Irma Steck (2200), April 19, 1952. They have four children.
        1. JOANNE ELIZABETH (2201), born October 26,1952.
        2. ROBERT DONALD (2202), born September 12,1954.
        3. AMY LEE (2203), born January 17, 1956.
        4. LONNA JOY (2204), born June 17,1959.
      2. DOROTHY (LADEWIG) KONING (2198), was the second child born to Lawrence and Gertrude Ladewig. She was born January 24, 1924. On July 26, 1945 Dorothy married John Koning Jr. (2205). They have four children.
        1. SALLY LYNN (KONING) SPEET (2206), born June 23, 1947. Married Larry Albert Speet, November 18, 1967
        2. SUSAN LEE (2207), born June 7, 1951
        3. LARRY JON (2208), born August 16, 1952.
        4. MARY LOU (2209), born March 16,1956.
      3. NORMA (LADEWIG) MORRIS (2199), is the third child of Lawrence and Gertrude Ladewig and was born November 12, 1932. She married Roy Morns (2210), November 19, 1954. They have two children.
        1. LAUREN KAY (2211), born March 22, 1956.
        2. JON EDWARD (2212), born November 28, 1958.
    6. DOROTHY (LADEWIG) BELILE (1297), was the sixth child of Charles and Nettie Ladewig and was born June 24, 1908. She married Herbert Belile (2214), September 9, 1926, who served in the Army during World War II. He now is a farmer and a maintenance man. They have no children.
    7. ELVIN LADEWIG (1298), was the seventh child of Charles and Nettie Ladewig and was born June 25, 1911. He is a twin brother to Ervin. Elvin married Sophia Sveadas (2214), July 11, 1934. He worked as a metal polisher. They have three children. Elvin passed away August 1991 at age 77, buried in Los Angeles, California.
      1. ELVIN LADEWIG, JR. (2215), is the first child of Elvin and Sophia Ladewig and was born July 22, 1935. He married Joyce Kosten (2218), December 17, 1955. Elvin served in the U.S. Navy. They have two children.
        1. CINDY (2219), born January 5,1957.
        2. ROGER (2220), born November 21, 1960.
      2. JEAN (LADEWIG) HILTON (2216), the second child of Elvin and Sophia Ladewig, was born January 17, 1938. She married Darrel Hilton (2221), March 20,1955. They have three children.
        1. DARREL (2222), born February 20, 1956
        2. GERALD L (2223), born September 1, 1958.
        3. JEFREY (2224), born April 25, 1960.
      3. JUDY (LADEWIG) BUCKNUM (2217), the third child of Elvin and Sophia was born October 5, 1945. She married Victor Lee Bucknum (3482), July 22, 1967.
    8. ERVIN LADEWIG (1299) was the eighth child of Charles and Nettie Ladewig. He is the twin of Elvin and was born June 25, 1911. He attended Harrison High and Marne High School. Ervin is a printer and a member of Smith Memorial Church. He married Marion VanOosten (2225) in 1930 and was divorced in 1939. They had one child. In 1940 he married Gertrude Kardux (2227). One child was born to this union.
      1. LAVONNE (LADEWIG) VICARI (2226), of 2063 Michigan St., NE, Grand Rapids, Michigan, was the only child of Ervin and Marion Ladewig, and was born in 1931. She marri ed Anthony Vicari (2229), June 23, 1951 at Grand Rapids, Michigan. Anthony served in the Army from 1954 to 1956, is a National Guard. They have five children.
        1. ANTHONY VICARI JR (2230), born October 6, 1954
        2. MARY VICARI (2231), born October 24, 1956.
        3. CATHERINE VICARI (2232), twin to Carroline, was born October 30, 1960.
        4. CARROLINE VICARI (2233), twin to Catherine, was born October 30, 1960.
        5. JANET VICARI (2832), born September 1962
      2. SHIRLEY (LADEWIG) BURCH, was the second child born to Ervin Ladewig. She was born in 1942. She married Jack Burch Jr. (3043), August 1, 1964.
  • ALICE (LOWING) GREENE (56), was the twelfth child of Holden and Eleanor Lowing and was born December 20, 1877 in Georgetown Township. She married George Van Wagon (111), June 21, 1899. Lightning at their farm home in Georgetown, in June 1900, killed him. They had one child, George Jr., who was born April 18, 1900. He died in 1947. Alice was married a second time to Roy Collins (112), but no dates are available. Her second husband also died. Her third husband was Aaron Kelley (113), from whom she was divorced. They had two children. She married Edward Greene (114), February 22, 1915, who died prior to her death and was buried at Boyne Falls, Michigan. Alice died May 29, 1930 and is buried in the Georgetown Cemetery.
    1. GEORGE VAN WAGON JR. (1310) was the only child of Alice and George VanWagon. He was born April 18, 1900 and died in 1947.
    2. MYRTLE (KELLEY) LILLEY (1311) was the first child born to Aaron and Alice Kelley. She was born November 7, 1910. On September 14, 1930 she married John Lilley (2234). They have five children. John, age 75 passed away, January 18, 1978, interment Georgetown Cemetery.
      1. IRENE (LILLEY) PLATT (2235), is the first child of John and Myrtle Lilley and was born March 10, 1932. She married Howard Platt (2240), June 30, 1950. They have three children.
        1. NANCY (2241), born August 14, 1951.
        2. PATRICIA (2242), born December 31, 1952.
        3. JANEE (2243), born August 9, 1956.
      2. MAURICE LILLEY (2236), is the second child of John and Myrtle Lilley and was born June 7,1933. He married Janet Vickers (2244), February 20, 1954. They have two children.
        1. MARTIN (2245), born December 29, 1955
        2. RAYMOND (2246), born August 19, 1956
      3. WARREN LILLEY (2237), is the third child of John and Myrtle Lilley and was born August 24, 1935. He married Mary Ann Bass (2247), December 11 1954. They have three children.
        1. PAMLA (2248), born June 29, 1955.
        2. JAMES (2249), born April 29, 1958.
        3. SCOTT (2250), born March 25, 1959.
      4. LOUISE LILLEY (2238), the fourth child of John and Myrtle Lilley was born May 24, 1941. She is not married.
      5. WAYNE LILLEY (2239) was the fifth child born February 15, 1946. He is not married.
    3. ELEANOR (KELLEY) (MOYER) GOYT (1312) was the second child of Aaron and Alice Kelley and was born March 10, 1914. She married Jesse Moyer (2253) in 1933 and Bob Goyt (2255) on December 31, 1960. She has two children.
      1. ISAAC KELLEY (2252), the first child who was born June 26, 1931. He married LaVon May Kitely (2256), August 15, 1953. They have one child.
        1. VONNIE MAY (2257), born December 9, 1954.
      2. EVERETT MOYER (2254), was the second child and was born, February 23,1934. He married Bonnie Kay Skult (2258), August 15, 1953. They have five children.
        1. DELLA MARIE (2259), born May 24, 1955.
        2. JESSE EVERETT (2260), born May 28, 1956
        3. TERRY LYNN (2261), born January 21, 1958.
        4. BECKEY KAY (2262), born April 20, 1959.
        5. DALE J (2263), born October 30, 1960.
  • ESTHER BROOKLIN (LOWING) ENGEL (57) was the thirteenth and last child born to Holden and Eleanor Lowing. She was born July 31, 1881. She married William Engel (115), who was born January 29, 1877 and died February 25, 1952. He was a farmer. Esther died December 11, 1914 and is buried in the Georgetown Cemetery. They had five children.
    1. MARVIN ENGEL (1313), the first child of William and Esther Engel was born July 8, 1903. He never married. Died June 11, 1984, buried Georgetown Cemetery.
    2. DOROTHEA (ENGEL) WOODBURN (1414), was the second child born to William and Esther Engel. She was born October 27, 1905 and is a graduate of Rockford High School, where she received special honors in chemistry. Dorothy is a Registered Nurse having studied at Butterworth Hospital. She married Kenneth A. Woodburn (2264), January 1, 1931 who died July 20, 1952. Dorothea passed away June 25, 1963, buried in Wyoming Cemetery. Six children were born to this union.
      1. RONALD K WOODBURN (2265), is the eldest child of Kenneth and Dorothy Woodburn who was born October 17, 1931. He married Margaret M Meyer (2271), April 15, 1952. Ronald is a veteran of World War II. At present he is a Tool and Die worker. They have five children.
        1. RONALD K., JR (2272), born July 16, 1953.
        2. PATRICIA K (2273), born March 12, 1955.
        3. KENNETH A (2274), born February 2,1957.
        4. KATHLEEN A (2275), born April 12, 1958.
        5. RICHARD W (2276), born March 1, 1960.
      2. MARILYN A. (WOODBURN) HEILEMAN (2266), is the second child of Kenneth and Dorothy Woodburn and was born March 5,1933. She is a graduate of Grandville High School and on December 29,1951 she married Frederick A. Heileman (2277) and live in Dutton. They have four children.
        1. FREDERICK R. HEILEMAN JR. (2278), born July 23,1952. Married May 15 to Gwendlyn J. Edema (3483). Divorced October 30, 1987.
          1. NATHANIEL J. HEILEMAN (3484), born September 1, 1983
        2. KENNETH A. HEILEMAN (2279), born September 1, 1953.
        3. MICHAEL A.HEILEMAN (2280), born October 16,1956. Married May 15,1978 to Debra A Witzak (3485).
          1. REBECCA ANN HEILEMAN (3486), born September 15, 1979.
          2. KRISTIN KATHLEEN HEILEMAN (3487), born March 22, 1982.
        4. ROGER A. HEILEMAN (2281), born June 15, 1959.
      3. NANCY CAROL (WOODBURN) DE JONGE (2267), is the third child of Kenneth and Dorothy Woodburn. She was born April 5, 1934 and attended Grandville High School. She married Willard H. De Jonge (2282), a high school teacher April 1, 1953. They have two children. Nancy passed away December 18, 1969, buried in Wyoming Cemetery, Grandville.
        1. WILLARD H. DE JONGE JR. (2283), born September 26, 1955. Married April 20,1985 to Lori Lynn Lerch (3488).
          1. CHANTELLE CHARISE DE JONGE (3489), born March 22,1989.
        2. KIMBERLY R. (DE JONGE) CURTHS (2284), born November 29, 1957. Married May 16,1981 to Michael Lee Curths (3490).
          1. ANDREA LEE CURTHS (3491), born May 12, 1982.
          2. AUSTIN MICHAEL CURTHS (3492), born October 28, 1985.
      4. LARRY KENGEL WOODBURN (2268), the fourth child of Kenneth and Dorothy Woodburn, was born June 28, 1940. He married September 1972 to Rachel Naggart (3493), in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
      5. LINDA LOU (WOODBURN) CORCORAN (2269), was the fifth child of Kenneth and Dorothy Woodburn, she was born June 14, 1943. Married Thomas Frederick Corcoran (3494), October 17, 1964.
        1. CHRISTOPHER THOMAS CORCORAN (3495), born April 2, 1966.
      6. GARY RANDALL WOODBURN (2270), was the sixth child born July 9, 1946 and was a student at Grandville High School. He married Sheila Ann Vinkemulder (3496), July 15, 1967.
    3. LEE ELDRIN ENGEL (1315), was the third child of William and Esther Engel and was born July 24,1907. He married Donna L. Huckleberry (2286), March 7, 1931. Lee lived in Cedar Springs, Michigan and worked for the Wolverine Shoe and Tanning Co. of Rockford. He belonged to Masonic Lodge #213 F&AM and the Methodist Church. They had two children. Lee died July 7, 1972, buried in Cedar Springs, MI.
      1. ROBERT E. ENGEL (2287), the first child born to Lee and Donna Engel was born September 3, 1932. He married Many Elliott (2289) of Laramie, Wyoming on June 19, 1956. Robert is a graduate of Cedar Springs High School and has served eight years in the Armed Services. They have three children.
        1. JERRY LEE (2290), born March 25, 1957.
        2. REBECCA (2291), born November 9, 1958.
        3. DEB ORAH KAY (2292), born June 12, 1961.
      2. DONNA LEE (ENGEL) HOLTON (2288) is the second child of Lee and Donna Engel. She was born September 19, 1934 and is a graduate of Cedar Springs High School. She married Earl Holton (2293), August 9,1952. He is a District Manager for Meijer Super Markets. They have four children.
        1. MICHAEL HOLTON (2294), born January 21, 1954. Married October 11, 1980 to JoAnne Sowa (3497).
          1. NICHOLAS SKEETS HOLTON (3498), born April 2, 1983.
          2. KATY JO HOLTON (3499), born January 13, 1985.
          3. SARA ALLISON HOLTON (3500), born July 7, 1987.
        2. ELIZABETH ANN (HOLTON) ZILIOX (2295), born July 5, 1955. Married December 20, 1975 to Donald Ziliox (3501).
          1. DONALD ZILIOX (3502), born September 19, 1982.
        3. BRIAN HOLTON (2296), born July 30, 1957.
        4. KIMBERLY SUE HOLTON (3503), born July 24, 1966.
    4. WILBUR ENGEL (1316), was the fourth child of William and Esther Engel was born May 29, 1909. He died February 11, 1932 and is buried in the Georgetown Cemetery.
    5. CLARK JENNING ENGEL (1317) was the fifth and last child born to William and Esther Engel. He was born June 23, 1911 and graduated from Rockford High School and attended California Concordia College in Oakland, California. He married Carolyn E. Johnson (2297) of Los Angeles, California, September 16, 1945. Clark served in the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II and now works for the Postal Department. Clark has been a member of the Bethany Lutheran Church of Hollywood, California for thirty years and has sung in the choir of that church for twenty-eight years. They have two children.
      1. SHARON E. (2298), born March 12, 1949
      2. ALLEN C. (2299), born November 3, 1953.

  • This Completes The Life Of Holden Crandall Lowing And All His Known Descendants.

    High School in Grand Rapids. He was a Granger and now is a Mason. Russell married Mable C. Quick (1359), September 24, 1931. She was born in Allendale, December 18, 1909. Mable was a high school graduate. They have three children. Mable passed away March 26, 1982, buried in Allendale Cemetery. Russell remarried March 8, 1984 to Doris Arnold (3124).
    1. MARILYN RUTH (LOWING) HODGSON (1860), eldest daughter of Russell Lowing and Mable Quick was born at Allendale, October 10, 1932. She is a high school graduate and soon after graduation, she married Carl Hodgson (1865) of Fruitport. They were married at Coopersville. They have three children.
      1. DAVID BURTON HODGSON (1864), born October 18, 1951. He married Vicki LaMie (3125), April 17, 1971.
        1. GARY RUSSELL HODGSON (3126), born September 14, 1971.
        2. SANDRA ADELE HODGSON (3127), born July 13, 1974. Passed away July 21, 1975, buried in Fruitport, Mi.
        3. MICHAEL KAAN HODGSON (3128), born October 25, 1976.
      2. CARLA SUE (HODGSON) JOHNSON (1865), born November 22, 1953. She married Robert Johnson (3129), July 10, 1971.
        1. KELLY SUE JOHNSON (3130), born September 6, 1973.
        2. AMY JO JOHNSON (3131), born February 7,1978.
      3. KIMBERLY ANN (HODGSON) SLAZAK (1866), born September 21,1956. Married Dennis Bert Slazak (3132), May 8, 1976.
        1. JODY LOU SLAZAK (3133), born July 16, 1980.
        2. JAMIE SUE SLAZAK (3134), born March 25,1982.
    2. LOTTIE JEAN (LOWING) EDDY (1861), second daughter of Russell Lowing was born at Allendale, February 15, 1937. Lottie is a high school graduate and has worked as a telephone operator. In March of 1957, Lottie married Robert Eddy (1867) of Muskegon. They are now living rear Coopersville.
      1. STEVEN RUSSELL EDDY (1868), born November 1, 1957. Married September 18, 1976 to Patty Kay Chamberlain (3155).
        1. ERIN KAY EDDY (3136), born December 11, 1978.
        2. MONICA JEAN EDDY (3137), born August 16, 1981.
      2. DALE ROBERT EDDY (1869), born September 1958. Married November 1, 1977 to Lori Gilde (3138).
        1. JOSEPH ROBERT EDDY (3139), born May 26,1978.
    3. LORNA LEE (LOWING) ENGLE (1862), youngest daughter of Russell Lowing was born in Grand Rapids, July 27, 1943. She married Donald Engle (2817), March 3, 1962.
      1. LORI ANN (ENGLE) RANDER (3140), born October 27,1963. Married January 5,1985 to Robert Rander (3142).
        1. HEATHER MARIE RANDER (3143), born November l8, 1986.
        2. JACQUELYN RANDER (3144), born January 31, 1988.
        3. ROBYN LORI RANDER (3145), born December 30, 1989.
      2. NANCY KAY (ENGLE) KEEGSTRA (3141), born June 5, 1967. Married April 1, 1989 to Bruce Keegstra (3146).
  • RUTH ELEANOR (LOWING) BEHRENS (1247) was born at Georgetown, October 3, 1913. Site is the oldest daughter of Floyd and Eva Lowing. Ruth is a high school graduate, and was a member of the school orchestra. She married William E Behrens (1870), December 31, 1932 at the home of her parents in Allendale. They lived on their farm near Bauer since their marriage. William passed away April 5,1968, buried in Blendon Cemetery. They have seven children and eleven grand children.
    1. ARLENE JUNE (BEHRENS) GROENDYK (1871), eldest daughter of Ruth Lowing and William Behrens, was born at Allendale, July 20, 1933. She is a high school graduate and did office work until her marriage February 1954 to Roger Groendyke (1878) at St. John Lutheran Church at Blendon. They are now living in Grand Rapids, and they have four children.
      1. WILLIAM ALLAN GROENDYK (1879), born September 1, 1954. Married September 29, 1979 to Jefra Johnson (3147), daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Charles Johnson.
        1. RYAN WILLIAM GROENDYK (3148), born November 14, 1983.
        2. EVAN ROBERT GROENDYK (3149), born October 30, 1986.
      2. JUNE ANN GROENDYK (1880), born September 3, 1955.
      3. ROGER D. GROENDYK, JR (1881), born August 21, 1956. Married November 30, 1979 to Judy Havelhorst (3150), daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Harry Havelhorst.
        1. ROGER DAVID GROENDYK 111 (3151), born December 20, 1981.
        2. ERIC CHRISTOPHER GROENDYK (3152), born May 30, 1984.
      4. GARY LEE GROENDYK (1882), born October 13, 1957. Married September 23, 1978 to Denise Zamarippa (3153).
        1. BROOKE ANN GROENDYK (3154), born August 27, 1981.
    2. WARD E BEHRENS (1872), twin son of Ruth (Lowing) Behrens, was born in Blendon, June 25,1934. He attended Hudsonville High School and later married Helene Garner (1883) at St. Mary's Church in Grand Rapids, April 25, 1954. Helene passed away August 19, 1968, burial Woodlawn Cemetery. Ward remarried Patricia Cooley (3155) June 23, 1972
      1. WARD LEE BEHRENS (1884), born May 11, 1955. Married Vicky Mroz (3156), February 12, 1977.
        1. BRANDON MICHAEL BEHRENS (3157), born July 8, 1977.
      2. KEITH LEE BEHRENS (1885), born June 18, 1959. Married August 14, 1982 to Mary Beth VanNetten (3158), daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Ray VanNetten, of Holland, Michigan.
        1. JENNIFER LYNN BEHRENS (3159), born May 13,1988.
        2. JODI MARIE BEHRENS (3160), born July 25, 1990.
      3. KELLY ANNE (BEHRENS) GLAZIER (3161), born October 22, 1963. Married Steven Glazier (3162), August 16, 1986.
    3. WAYNE E BEHRENS (1873), twin son of Ruth Lowing Behrens, was born at Blendon June 25,1934. He attended High School and later married Thurlene Nash (1886) of Grand Rapids, March 1, 1945. They are living in Grand Rapids and have three children.
      1. DAVID WAYNE BEHRENS (1887), born September 8, 1957. Married March 22, 1979 to Ginger Dalman (3163).
        1. LINDSAY JOY BEHRENS (3164), born August 17, 1983.
        2. ALICIA RENEE BEHRENS (3165), born May 10, 1985.
        3. JENNA CHRISTINE BEHRENS (3166), born November 7, 1988.
      2. DEBRA LYNN (BEHRENS) HEEMSTRA (1888), born April 7, 1959. Married June 7, 1980 to Thomas Heemstra (3167), son of Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Heemstra of Hudsonville.
        1. REBEKAH LYN HEEMSTRA (3168), born July 5, 1984.
        2. RENEE MICHELLE HEEMSTRA (3169), born June 5,1988.
      3. DWAYNE ALLEN BEHRENS (1889), born May 29, 1960. Married June 11, 1982 to Sharon Joy Burns (3170), daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Burns of Hudsonville, MI
        1. JEROD SCOTT BEHRENS (3171), born October 15, 1982
        2. ASHLEY MARIE BEHRENS (3172), born October 16, 1985.
    4. CAROL JEANNE (BEHRENS) KNOPER (1874), daughter of Ruth (Lowing) Behrens was born at Blendon, March 17, 1938. After graduating from high school and working for a time as a bank clerk she married Larry Knoper (1890) at Allendale Christian Reformed Church. They reside at Allendale with their two children.
      1. LAUREL JEAN (KNOPER) HERRICK (1891), born April 4,1957. Married John Herrick, (3174) August 20, 1975 in Allendale, MI.
        1. MICHAEL HERRICK (3175), born May 31, 1975
        2. ISAAC JOHN HERRICK (3176), born September 19,1981.
        3. REBEKAH JEAN HERRICK (3177), born November 18,1982.
      2. RANDALL LEE KNOPER (1892), born November 2, 1958. Married August 8, 1981 to Gretchen Piersma (3178), daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Piersma of Hudsonville.
        1. DEREK GORDON KNOPER (3179), born December 25,1983.
        2. JORDON LEE KNOPER (3180), born May 21, 1987.
      3. LYNN RENEE KNOPER (3173), born November 3, 1964.
    5. LORRAINNE (BEHRENS) EVERETT (1875), daughter of Ruth (Lowing) Behrens, was born at Blendon September 4, 1944. Lorraine is a high school graduate. She married Michael Everett (3181), May 12, 1973.
      1. MICHAEL TAYLOR EVERETT (3182), born May 31, 1975.
      2. KYLE WILLIAM EVERETT (3183), born February 11, 1977.
    6. BETTY LOU (BEHRENS) HALL (1896), youngest daughter of Ruth (Lowing) Behrens was born November 13, 1947 at Blendon. Betty married Earl Hall (3184), April 30, 1966.
      1. KEVIN EARL HALL (3185), born July 1, 1971.
      2. JASON KELLY HALL (3186), born September 21, 1973.
    7. JERRY WILLIAM BEHRENS (1877), youngest child of Ruth (Lowing) Behrens, was born November 13, 1957 in Zeeland, Michigan. Married August 15, 1981 to Mary Jeanette Phillips (3187), daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Phillips of Allendale.
      1. ANDREW WILLIAM BEHRENS (3849), born 17 January 1985.
  • ROBERT M. LOWING (1248) was born in Allendale, July 21, 1917, the second son of Floyd and Eva Lowing. He was married to Lucille Dennis (1893), March 16, 1937 at Grand Haven. To this marriage was born Roger Hugh, who passed away at six weeks, and Connie Louise born in Grand Rapids. Robert was divorced January 10, 1941, and married Mary J. Muste (1896), December 31, 1943. Their first child was Robert Allan, then Jean Ann, who passed away at four months of age. Robin Gayle, born November 18, 1952, at Grand Rapids. Robert was divorced and married Klare E. Luyk, (1900) November 2, 1957 in Grand Rapids. Klare was born in August 1915. Robert is now a truck driver and lives in Allendale.
    1. ROGER HUGH LOWING (1894), born September 16, 1938 and died November 1, 1938.
    2. CONNEE LOUISE (LOWING) FERGUSON (1895), daughter of Robert and Lucille (Dennis) Lowing, was born February 13, 1943 at Grand Rapids. She married Ronald Ferguson (1901) on June 10, 1961. They have three children.
      1. FEBRA ANN FERGUSON (1902), born March 27, 1962 in New Jersey
      2. KEVIN CRAIG FERGUSON (3188), born May 13, 1965. Married 1983 to Bobbie (3189).
        1. BRYAN CRAIG FERGUSON (3190), born February 29,1984.
        2. AIMEE LYUNN FERGUSON (3191), born May 21, 1985.
      3. PALL ROBERT FERGUSON (3192), born October 28,1969.
    3. ROBERT ALLAN (1897), son of Robert Lowing and Mary (Muste) Lowing was born December 31, 1944.
    4. JEAN ANN (1898) was born July 2, 1951 and passed away at four months of age, October 8, 1951.
    5. ROBIN GALE (LOWING) BOWEN (1899), daughter of Robert and Mary Lowing was born November 16, 1953. She married Ernest Bower (3193), May 1973.
      1. ERNEST BOWEN, JR, born June 1973.
  • WILLARD ELTON LOWING (1249), third son of Floyd and Eva Lowing, was born at Allendale, September 11, 1920. A high school graduate, he married Jeannette Dennis (1903), August 29, 1937 at Elkhart, Indiana. One son was born to this union, Donald Eugene born at Bauer. Willard was divorced July 1st, 1940. He was then married to Helen Sodowski (1909), who was born at Grand Rapids. Two sons were born to this union, Duane Allen, and David Stanley. Helen passed away soon after David's birth, August 13, 1943. Willard married Arlene Bohn (1912), December 4, 1942, who was born in Grand Rapids, March 2, 1926. Three daughters were born to his union, Lee Ann, Leslie Marie and Juanita Kay. Willard and family live on a dairy farm near Coopersvile, where he raises registered Holstein cattle and is a 4-H leader. After the departure of Arlene he married Margaret Smith (3195) in 1972.
    1. DONALD EUGENE LOWING (1904), son of Willard and Jeannette (Dennis) Lowing, was born November 18, 1937 at Blendon. He is a High School graduate, and served three years with the U.S. Army in Japan. Donald married Emily Patrick (1905), April 7,1956 in Nunica. Emily is also a High School graduate, and spent two years in Japan with her husband. Donald is a diesel mechanic. Donald divorced Emily, married Sharon Betsford (3196) on May 14, 1977.
      1. MICHAEL DUANE LOWING (1906) was born in Tokyo, Japan, May 8,1958, while his father was in the Army. Married October 10, 1981 to Marcia Lynn Otterbein (3197), daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Harvey Otterbein of Coopersville, MI.
        1. BRADLEY JAY LOWING (3198), born November 25, 1985.
      2. TRACY LYNN (LOWING) WOODS, KNAUF (1907), was born January 8, 1960. Married January 5, 1980 to Danny Woods (3199) of Georgia. Divorced and married Frank Knauf (3201), August 13, 1988.
        1. RYAN WOODS (3200), Born May 6, 1980.
      3. CHRIS ALLAN LOWING (1908), was born April 27, 1962. Married April 22, 1989 to June Yost (3201).
      4. BRIAN DONALD LOWING (3203), born November 19, 1965.
    2. DUANE ALLEN LOWING (1910), born December 14, 1941. Married Rita Rae Struik (3204) of Manic on October 10, 1964
      1. TIMOTHY EUGENE LOWING (3205), born March 30,1965
      2. TERESSA (TINA) ANN (LOWING) WIGGERS (3206), born October 26, 1967. Married August 25, 1990 to John Jay Wiggers (3207).
    3. DAVID STANLEY LOWING (1911), born August 13,1943. He married Sharon Parks (3208) on June 6, 1964.
      1. DEBORAH LYNN LOWING (3209), born November 18, 1964.
      2. DENNETTE LEE (LOWING) FLOUR (3210), born November 19, 1965. Married Gregg Floud (3211), April 26, 1986. Divorced 1991.
      3. DAVID LOWELL LOWING (3212), born October 9,1967. Married May 14,1988 to Virginia Lynn Gravely (3213).
        1. CHRISTOPHER LOWING (3214), born December 3, 1988
        2. JESSIE ALLEN LOWING (3215), born November 3,1990.
    4. LEE ANN (LOWING) KLUTING (1913), born July 26, 1944. Married Eugene A. Kluting (2818), October 27, 1962
      1. MARK EUGENE KLUTING (3216), born December 18, 1964. Married August 3, 1985 to Laura Audissred (3218) of McAllen, Texas.
        1. KERRI KLUTING (3219), born April 1, 1988.
        2. MATTHEW EVAN KLUTING (3220), born May 22,1991.
      2. EVAN KLUTING (3217), born August 28, 1973.
    5. LESLIE MARIE (LOWING) YAGER, STEINHAUS (1914) born September 21, 1947. She married James Yager (3221), January 27, 1968. Divorced. Remarried to Warren Steinhaus (3224) in 1979.
      1. KARLY JANELLE YAGER (3222), born August 6,1973.
      2. JAMES MARK YAGER (3223), born November 15, 1976.
      3. KELLY LEE ANN STEINHAUS (3225), born May 20,1980
    6. JUANITA KAY (LOWING) SHRUNK, ZAHRT (1915), born June 7, 1949. She married Robert Shrunk (3226), April 1970. Divorced. Remarried Jim Zahrt (3229), July 1985.
      1. ROBERT SCOTT SHRUNK (3227), born August 31, 1973.
      2. BRIAN ALLAN SHRUNK (3228), born October 19, 1976.
  • MYLA JEANS (LOWING) VISSERS, HORTER (1250), second daughter of Floyd and Eva Lowing was born in Allendale, July 15, 1923. She received a high school education and was married to Marvin R Vissers (1916), January 29, 1941, at Allendale Reformed Church. He is employed at Consumers Power Company. They have three children. She divorced Marvin and remarried David Horter (3230) on April 29, 1979.
    1. NANCY KAY (VISSERS) DYKE (1917), born at Zeeland, August 15, 1942. She married Jerry Allen Dyke (2819), September 6, 1962.
      1. CYNTHIA KAY (DYKE) BOERTJE (2820), born May 13, 1963. Married November 11, 1989 to Bruce Boertje (3231).
      2. CRISTINE FAY DYKE (3232), born July 13, 1965.
      3. CHERILYN MAY DYKE (3233), born October 20, 1969.
      4. CURTIS ALAN DYKE (3234), born January 3, 1971.
    2. JANET LYN (VISSERS) VENNEMAN (1918), was born August 10, 1944. She married Mare Venneman (1920), September 21, 1961.
      1. LAURA ALARM (VENNEMAN) SMITH (1921), born April 24, 1962. Married August 25, 1984 to Randy Allen Smith (3235) of Kalamazoo.
      2. DANIEL MARC VENNEMAN (3236), born May 2, 1965.
      3. JOEL HAROLD VENNEMAN (3237), born June 5, 1968. Married September 16, 1989 to Nancy Niblick (3238).
    3. TERRYL LEE VISSERS (1919), was born October 8, 1946. He married Sally Arnoldink (3239), October 2, 1970.
      1. CRAIG ALLAN VISSERS (3240), born March 24, 1973.
      2. STACY LYNN VISSERS (3241), born October 24, 1975.
      3. MATTHEW JON VISSERS (3242), born January 31, 1977.
      4. LISA MARIE VISSERS (3243), born April 8, 1979.
  • FLOYD M. LOWING, JR (1251), youngest son of Floyd and Eva Lowing was born September 30, 1925 at Allendale. After receiving a high school education, he married Donna McDowell (1922) in Grand Rapids, March 16, 1952. Donna was born in Caledonia, February 12, 1926. He is a diesel mechanic at Cummings Diesel in Grand Rapids. They have two sons and a daughter and live near Coopersville.
    1. DAN BRIAN LOWING (1923), was born June 16, 1955.
    2. THOMAS BRUCE LOWING (1924), was born January 8, 1957. Married April 14, 1984 to Darlene Beck (3244).
      1. CHRISTOPHER THOMAS LOWING (3245), born December 25, 1985.
      2. MONICA ELYSE LOWING (3246), born October 2, 1987.
      3. GERRIT JAMES LOWING (3247), born March 2, 1990.
    3. DENISE KAY (LOWING) BREEN (1925), was born September 28, 1959. Married October 20, 1979, to David Breen (3248), son of Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Breen.
      1. BRIEN FLOYD BREEN (3249), born May 30, 1983.
      2. BRADLEY JOHN BREEN (3250), born November 2, 1984.
      3. BRANDON DAVID BREEN (3251), born June 28, 1987.
  • IVAN LOWING (1241), the third child of Edna Gillett and Otis Lowing, was born in Georgetown, July 1892. He attended Georgetown School and Grandville High School. After his father's death he worked his mother's farm for several years. He married Marguerite Doan (1252), November 12, 1912 at Grandville. Later he worked as salesman for the Grand Rapids Dairy. He sold Insurance for several companies. He was called for World War L, but never saw active service. He was a member of I.O.O.F in Hudsonville and was a Noble Grand for several years. Marguerite was born July 2, 1896 and died February 16, 1948. Ivan died April 5, 1940. Both are buried in the Georgetown Cemetery. They had six children.
    1. DONNA (LOWING) DUBOIS (1253), of Fox St., Grand Rapids, Michigan, was born May 25, 1916, at Jenison, Mich. She married Gerald May (1927) in 1936 and was divorced in 1942, married Lewis Smith (1928) in 1944 and divorced in 1948, and married Floyd Dubois (1929) January 21, 1950, at Fort Wayne, Ind. He is in the Diesel Equipment Division of G.M.C. at Grand Rapids. She has no children. She passed away January 28, 1969.
    2. GRANT E LOWING (1926), was born August 16, 1918 and passed away September 27, 1919.
    3. MAX I. LOWING (1254), was born November 4, 1919, at Georgetown, Michigan. He attended Hudsonville Grade and High School. He was a salesman for the Singer Sewing Machine Co., prior to his service in the Army. He married Mavis DeGroot (1930), January 13, 1942 at Jamestown, Michigan. He left Grand Haven for Ft. Custer, Michigan Jan 26, 1942. He arrived at Camp Wheeler, Ga., Feb 14, 1942 and in May to Ft. Devens, Mass. After a few short furloughs, he left for overseas in April 1943, landed in Africa, and was in the first combat in July in Sicily. They fought their way through the entire Sicilian Campaign until the land was completely taken. On September 10th 1943, his outfit (180th Infantry Antitank of the 45th Thunderbird Division) and he landed at Salerna, Italy and fought, and was on front line duty consistently until October when they reached the Vulturno River Crossing, they next moved to Cassino Italy, where they fought until January 1944, when they were moved to the Beaches of Anzio. Here they were shelled upon night and day as they tried to hold an area 8 miles deep by 12 miles wide, by German 88mm guns, as they tried to push them back into the sea. Max was on a forward antitank gun, on the morning of February 16, 1944. Some of the German tanks got behind his position, and were firing from the flanks. He swung his 57mm gun around to cover his men. It was an unequal battle, and when it was over Max had been killed, and his gun was shattered by a direct hit.

      He was awarded the Bronze Star posthumously which read "For heroic achievement in action of Feb 16,1944, his courageous performance in engaging tanks despite their superior fire power reflects the high tradition of the Army of the United States." He had been in constant action from the time he left North Africa in May until he was killed at Anzio, Italy in Feb, living on rations without any relief from constant combat. Max is buried in Georgetown Cemetery. They had one child.

      1. SHERRYL MAXINE (LOWING) ENSING (1931), born October 23, 1942. She married Gary Ensing (2821). Sherryl (aged 32) and Gary (aged 33) both passed away due to accidental injuries August 15, 1975. Interment Grandville Cemetery.
        1. KELLY KRISTIN (ENSING) BLOUW (3034), born July 20, 1964. Married June 30, 1990 to Douglas Blouw (3254).
        2. BRETT MICHAEL ENSING (3253), born June 29, 1967.
    4. KEITH F LOWING (1932), 5547 Pleasant Ave., Hudsonville, was born April 26, 1923. He attended Hudsonville Grade and High School. He entered service in World War II, February 11, 1943 and served the 351 Inf. Co. B 88th Division in Italy. He saw a great deal of action and was wounded near Florence Italy. He was discharged October 17, 1945. He married Faye (Polly) Alward (1935), November 25, 1947 at the Congregational Church in Hudsonville. He is a driver for the Cedar Crest Farms and Dairy. They have two children.
      1. PENDRA LEA (LOWING) COSTEN (1936), was born April 1, 1949. At the age of two on August 1, 1951, Penny won first prize in an IGA contest over 10,000 contestants, as a national winner; $500 bond, trip to New York, and playground equipment. Pendra married Jerry Costen (3255), May 18, 1971.
        1. KELLI COSTEN (3256), born August 19, 1977
      2. CINDA LEE (LOWING) GEERS (1937), was born January 22, 1954. Married Rick Geers (3257), January 22, 1977.
        1. RYAN LEE GEERS (3258), born October 13, 1980.
        2. CODY C. GEERS (3259), born October 2, 1984.
    5. KENT LEROY LOWING (1933), of Hamilton St., Newton, New Jersey, fifth child of Ivan and Marguerite Lowing was bony Oct 11, 1935, at Hudsonville. He attended Hudsonville Elementary and High School. He entered service in Sept 1955 and was in the Infantry. He took his training at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., and then spent 1 1/2 years in Germany. He was discharged in 1957. He married Effie Plowman (1938), June 10, 1960, at Newton, New Jersey. He is a factory worker.
      1. RUTH ANN (LOWING) SHAUGER (3035), adopted daughter born December 21, 1963. Married Shauger (3260), Divorced same.
        1. NICHOLAS (3261), born May 22, 1983
        2. DERRICK (3262), born January 2,1990.
    6. GARTH LOWING (1934), of 5547 Pleasant Ave., Hudsonville, the sixth and last child of Ivan and Marguerite Lowing was born Dec 21, 1937 at Hudsonville. He attended elementary and high school at Hudsonville, Mich. He entered service on May 3, 1956 and served with the 29th Infantry. He received his training in California, and spent a year and a half in Germany. He was discharged April 18, 1958. He is a driver for the Spe-D-Gas Co. On June 29, 1962, he married Christine Ammons (1939).
      1. LINDA CHRISTINE (LOWING) MARREN (2822), born June 14, 1963. Married September 18, 1981 to Todd Marren (3264) son of Mr & Mrs Don Marren.
        1. AMANDA CHRISTINE MARREN (3265), born March 14,1982
        2. ROSS MICHAEL MARREN (3266), born April 16, 1985.
      2. BECKY SUE (LOWING) DE WEERD (3263), born November 11, 1965. Married May 16, 1986 to Joel Gerald DeWeerd (3267)
        1. JARED ROBERT DE WEERD (3268), born September 9, 1987.
  • NEVA (LOWING) CHENEY (1242), of 624 North Lansing, Mt. Pleasant, the only daughter of Otis and Edna Lowing, was born March 20, 1898, at Georgetown, Michigan. She attended school in Georgetown, Grandville Hilt School and Webb Academy in Grand Rapids. She studied music. She married J.D. Cheney (1255), December 13, 1916 at Grand Rapids. He was a salesman. She worked in the drapery business. J.D. passed away May 6, 1968 in Mt Pleasant. Neva passed away March 29, 1982. Both are buried in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Grand Rapids, MI.
    1. MARGARET JANE (CHENEY) MORTENSEN (1256), was born Aug 8, 1919 at Grand Rapids. She married Jack Mortensen (1940), August 17, 1940 at Grand Rapids, and later moved to Mt. Pleasant. They have five children.
      1. GAYLE A. (MORTENSEN) JOHNSTONE (1941), was born Aug 4, 1941. She married Mark Johnstone (1946), in 1961.
      2. DAVID J.MORTENSEN (1942), was born September 6, 1944.
      3. DIANE J. MORTENSEN (1943), was born March 14,1948.
      4. GARTH A. MORTENSEN (1944), was born August 4, 1956.
      5. JANET KAIORTENSEN (1945), was born April 25, 1959.
    2. JACK EDWARD CHENEY (1257) was born in Grand Rapids, January 27, 1921. He entered the Army August 1943, was overseas with the 94th Infantry Div., serving in France and Germany from 1944 until 1946. He was discharged February 1946. He married Violet Gage (1947), January 1941. They had one child. All live in Mt. Pleasant Michigan. Second marriage was to Vivian Kitto (1949), September 23, 1948. They had one child. Vivian passed away October 26, 1966, burial in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Grand Rapids.
      1. RUTH ANN (CHENEY) TOLAR (1948), was born June 21, 1943. She married James Tolar (1951) in 1958. They have one child.
        1. KATHY TOLAR (1952), born 1959
      2. BETTY LOU CHENEY (1950), born March 11, 1959.
  • LYNN G. LOWING (1243), the fifth child of Otis and Edna Lowing was born December 26, 1902 at Georgetown. He attended school in Grand Rapids and graduated from South High School. He married Vane Schnures (1953), July 21, 1922 at Cedar Springs, Michigan. He is an employee of the C&O Railroad. They had eight children. Vatic passed away August 11, 1948, and is buried in the Georgetown Cemetery. He married Minnie Engeleman (1962) March 12, 1949. She had two children by a former marriage who took the Lowing name. Lynn and Minnie have one child.
    1. RICHARD FREDERICK LYNN LOWING (1954), first child of Lynn and Vatic lives at 17841 56th St., Coopersville, Michigan. He was born May 12, 1927, at Evans, Michigan. On May 14, 1949 he married Armella Victoria Schoenborn (1966), at Conklin, Michigan. He is a Carman of the C&O Railroad. They are members of the Holy Name Society, and St Mary's Church. He was chairman of Cub Scout Pack 3004. They have three children.
      1. CHARLES RICHARD LOWING (1967), born January 22, 1951. Married Mary Faltenowsky (3270), February 3, 1973.
        1. MICHELLE LYNN LOWING (3271), born July 3, 1973.
        2. RAYMOND RICHARD LOWING (3272), born December 16,1974.
      2. CHRISTENE ANN (LOWING) DLBOIS (1968), born August 27, 1953. Married Wayne DuBois (3273), January 13, 1973.
        1. HEATHER JO DUBOIS (3274), born November 8, 1973.
        2. MARTHA MARIE DUBOIS (3275), born April 27,1982.
      3. ROSE MARIE (LOWING) HORTER (1969), born February, 15,1955. Married Leonard E. Horter (3276), April 30, 1977, son of Mr. & Mrs. Edward Horter.
        1. EDWARD RICHARD HORTER (3277), born August 10, 1980.
        2. LEONARD WILLIAM HORTER (3278), born October 7, 1981.
      4. THOMAS LYNN LOWING (3279), born October 25, 1961. Married June 25, 1983 to Ruth Marie Schneider (3280), born May 12, 1959, daughter of Agnes and Alfred Schneider of Carson City, Michigan.
        1. JAMES RICHARD LOWING (3281), born June 25,1985.
    2. BETTY JEAN (LOWING) KNAUFF (1955), from Coopersville R.R.#2, was born February 28, 1930 at Grand Rapids. She attended the neighboring schools. February 26, 1949 she married John Knauff (1970), at Conklin, Michigan. He is a farmer and site is a housewife. They belong to St. Mary's Church. They have two children.
      1. SUSAN MARIE (KNAUFF) HORNACEK (1979), born August 15, 1949. Susan married John Hornacek (3282), November 23, 1973.
        1. PATRICK JOHN HORNACEK (3283), born April 14, 1974.
        2. DARLENE MIKEL HORNACEK (3284), born June 26, 1975.
        3. ANNE MARIE HORNACEK (3285), born August 1, 1977.
        4. JOSEPH PAUL HORNACEK (3286), born November 22,1978
        5. KATHLEEN RENEE HORNACEK (3287), born July 2, 1981.
      2. MICHAEL JOHN KNAUFF (1972), born July 20, 1959. Married Susan Mae Trendt (3288), July 3, 1976.
        1. CHRISTINA DIANE KNAUFF (3289), born December 22, 1978.
        2. BARBARA ANN KNAUFF (3290), bore August 29, 1980
    3. DONALD GORDEN LOWING (1976), was born March 17, 1932 at Georgetown. He has been ill for a long time and is in the state school in Coldwater. Donald, aged 47, passed away September 4, 1979, buried in Georgetown Cemetery.
    4. DALE LYNN LOWING (1957), the fourth child of Lynn and Vane Lowing lives at 619 56th Ave., Coopersville, Mich. He was born August 2.3, 1934 at Manic, Mich. Dale married Sue Carole Martin (1973), July 13, 1957 at Brandenburg Kentucky. She is a housewife, and he is a carman for the C&O Railroad. He entered the army on June 2, 1954, and was discharged May 31, 1957, with overseas duty for 16 months in Korea. They are members of the Immanuel Baptist Church. They have three children.
      1. PEGGY SUE (LOWING) MANZER (1974), born March 27, 1958. Married May 26, 1979 to Daniel Lawrence Manzer (3291) son of Rev. and Mrs. Lawrence Manzer.
        1. JOSHUA AARON MANZER (3292), born August 5, 1980.
        2. DEANNA MARIE MANZER (3293), born January 26,1983.
        3. KAITLYN MANZER (3294), born March 28, 1989.
      2. DEBORAH KAYE (LOWING) MAYSE (1975), born November 26, 1959. Married August 11, 1980 to Richard Mayse (3295).
        1. NICHOLAS MARTIN MAYSE (3296), born January 2, 1984.
        2. BENJAMIN RICHARD MAYSE (3297), born August 28,1987.
      3. LYNDA LEE (LOWING) SCHUTTER (1976), born February 8, 1961. Married January 8, 1983 to Martin Wayne Schutter (3298).
        1. ABBIE LYNN SCHUTTER (3299), born July 10, 1985.
        2. WAYNE SCHUTTER (3300), born October 27, 1987.
    5. DUANE OTIS LOWING (1958), was bore February 19, 1937 and also in the state school at Coldwater.
      1. SCOTT RANDALL LOWING (3301), born December 25, 1965. Married July 1987 to Paula Russo(3304).
        1. ZACHARY DANIEL LOWING (3305), born July 25,1990.
      2. JASON EDWIN LOWING (3302), born August 27,1976.
    6. RANDALL DEAN LOWING (1959), of Coopersville, Mich., was born February 16,1939 at Marie, Mich. He was married to Sharon May (1977), June 1959 at Conklin, Mich. She is a secretary, and he is a Press Operator. They have one child. Divorced from Sharon, Remarried to Nancy Wierenga (3303), January 25, 1975.
      1. JASON EDWARD LOWING (3302) born August 27, 1976
    7. BONNIE JUNE (LOWING) CURTHS, WIENAND (1960), was the seventh child of Lynn and Vane Lowing and was born June 30, 1940. She attended school at Marie. She married Richard Curths (1960), October 2, 1958 at Fort Collies. He entered the Airforce Aug 6, 1958 and now is in England. She is a housewife. They have three children. Divorced. Remarried May 5, 1978 to George Wienand (1978).
      1. DAVID MARK CURTHS (1979), bore April 27,1959.
      2. PAUL EDWIN CURTHS (2823), born November 18, 1961.
      3. STEVEN JOHN CURTHS (3306), born February 19, 1966.
    8. PATRICIA (LOWING) MILLER (1961), is the youngest child of Lynn and Vane Lowing, and she was born February 26, 1944. She attended grade school and Kalkaska High School. She married Ivan Miller (3307), May 1961.
      1. MARTIN MILLER (3308), born October 2, 1961. Married July 18, 1981 to Holly Hayes (3313) of Fife Lake.
        1. JASON MILLER (3314), born April 1983.
        2. JEFFERY MARTIN MILLER (3315), born December 2, 1985.
      2. TAMMY (MILLER) WHITLOW (3309), born August 1964. Married May 7,1983 to David Whitlow (3316).
        1. CHELSEA WHITLOW (3317), born December 19, 1990.
      3. MATTHEW J. MILLER (3310), born September 27, 1965.
      4. LISA KAY (MILLER) HARTPENCE (3311), born February 10, 1967. Married to Barry Gene Hartpence (3318), June 28, 1986.
      5. AMANDA LEE MILLER (3312), born January 16,1971, in South Boardman, Michigan.
    9. LEROY JAMES LOWING (1964) is the son of the second wife Minnie and adopted son of Lynn Lowing. He attended Big Springs Grade School and Coopersville High School. He married Sue Swears (1980), December 23, 1959. He joined the Navy June 1959 and was stationed at Boston Navy Yards. They have one child. Leroy married Noelle Schwingle (3319) from Chicago on July 13, 1964. They have one child. Remarried Betty Blackledge (3323) September 3, 1971. Divorced 1980. Remarried Judy Smith (3333), of Traverse City on June 6, 1981. Divorced, 1986. Married Brenda Cross (3787) August 31, 1986.
      1. JONATHAN LEE (1981), born August 29, 1960.
      2. JAMES LEE LOWING (3320), born April 21, 1965.
        1. JAMES LEE LOWING (3321), born October 5, 1986
      3. REUBEN BLACKLEDGE LOWING (3324), adopted, born 1963.
        1. DAVID SCOTT LOWING (3327), born February 21, 1991
      4. JILL BLACKLEDGE LOWING (3325), adopted, born 1964.
        1. JAY ALLAN RAYMAR (3320), born January 19, 1991.
      5. SHAWN LEE LOWING (3326), born July 24,1974.
    10. CAROL ANN (LOWING) BUTCHER (1965), is also adopted by Lynn Lowing. She attended Coopersville High School and Big Springs Grade School. She married Terry Butcher (1982) June 12, 1958. He is in the Air Force, serving in South Carolina. Spent one year in Okinawa. They have five children.
      1. LAURA LEA (BUTCHER) HUBBERT (1983), born February 13, 1960. Married September 3, 1984 to Charles Hubbert (3334).
        1. ANDREW CHARLES HUBBERT (3335), born January 23,1986.
        2. DEBORAH LEE HUBBERT (3336), born July 20, 1988.
        3. THOMAS WILSON HUBBERT (3337), born May 15, 1991.
      2. CARLA ANNE (BUTCHER) SUESSINE (2824), born October 22, 1961. Married May 17, 1980 to Tony Suessine (3338) of Romulus.
        1. BRIAN ANTHONY SUESSINE (3339), born February 16, 1986.
        2. BETHANY ANNE SUESSINE (3340), born February 28, 1988.
      3. TERRY ALLEN BUTCHER (3330), born October 2, 1963. Married Diane Karns (3341) of Reed City.
        1. NICKOLE MARIE BUTCHER (3342), born November 20, 1985.
        2. MICHELLE ELAINE BUTCHER (3343), born January 4, 1987.
        3. MELISSA ANN BUTCHER (3344), born May 10, 1988.
        4. TERRI LYNN BUTCHER (3345), born March 18, 1990.
      4. DARRELL DUANE BUTCHER (3331), born September 26, 1965.
      5. DANIEL FLOYD BUTCHER (3332), born August 12, 1972.
    11. SANDRA LYNN (LOWING) BONSOR (1963), the first child of Lynn Lowing and Minnie (Englesman) Lowing was born April 11, 1952. She attended grade school at South Boardman, Michigan. Married to Paul Bonsor (3269), May 15, 1975 in New Zealand.
  • DON M. LOWING (1244), of 316 E. Alice St., Whitehall, Michigan was born July 2, 1907 at Georgetown Township. He attended South High School, Junior College at Grand Rapids, and Michigan State University. He is Vice President and Secretary of the Chaddock, Winter and Alberts Corp., Insurance Brokers at Muskegon, Michigan. He had two children by his last wife Dorothy (1984). Don married his second wife, Helen Marie Brogren (1987), September 4, 1948 at Minneapolis, Minn. They live at Whitehall. He is committeeman of the County Political Unit. Don is active in United Fund Drives, Member of the Rotary Club, and YMCA. Has been active in many offices over a 25-year period. President of White Lake Little League, Whitehall City Planning Commission member for 3 years. In 1952, he was top producer of Sales of Life Insurance for the Aetna Insurance Company, of Hartford, Connecticut, and served as President of their Leaders Club during that year. They have ten children, all born at Muskegon, Michigan. Passed away November 11, 1968. Buried Georgetown Cemetery.
    1. DONALD JAMES LOWING (1985), of 561 Chadwick, Whitehall, Mich, was born February 10, 1937 at Chicago, Ill. He attended Muskegon High school. He is employed by West Michigan Vending Company. Donald was in the U.S. Army from January 1957 to January 1959. He married Irene Marie Belasc (1997), at South Bend, Indiana. They have two children. Donald passed away February 25, 1972.
      1. KELLY MARIE LOWING (1998), born April 13, 1960 at Muskegon.
      2. LAURA D. LOWING (3036), born February 10, 1962
    2. JUDITH LYNN (LOWING) POSTMUS (1986), of Beville, Texas, was born January 14,1941 at Chicago, Illinois. She attended Muskegon High School and Muskegon Junior College. Judith married Terry Postmus (3037), June 10, 1961 at Muskegon, Michigan. He entered the service March of 1958, and was stationed at Beville, Texas.
      1. AMY KATHLEEN POSTMUS (3038), born May 6, 1963
    3. RICHARD HOLDEN (1988), born March 7, 1949.
    4. DAN ARTHUR (1989), born March 5, 1950.
    5. DIANNE (1990), born March 10, 1951.
    6. MARK EDWARD (1991), born November 22, 1952.
    7. STEPHEN CRAIG (1992), born April 21, 1954.
    8. PATRICIA LU (1993), born August 30, 1955.
    9. AMANDA (1994), born November 26, 1957.
    10. MARY JANE (1995), born October 14, 1959.
    11. JENNIFER KAY (1996), born October 1, 1961.
    12. ROBERT SCOTT LOWING (3346), born October 6, 1963.
  • DANIEL M. LOWING (48) was the fourth child born to Holden and Eleanor Lowing. He was born February 21, 1859 in Georgetown Township. He married Anna Fairbanks (80) of Holland, Michigan, December 5, 1889. Dan was a farmer all of his life on a farm on Bauer Road given to him by his father. He died May 21, 1903 and is buried in the Georgetown Cemetery; Anna passed away May 9, 1920.
    1. BERTHA LOWING (1999) died in infancy.
    2. CECIL (LOWING) WILSON (1258), the 2nd child born to Daniel and Anna Lowing was born February 28, 1891. She married Fred Wilson (1260), who was killed in a grain elevator accident March 24 1950. Three children were born to this marriage. Cecil passed away July 21, 1974 at age 83, in Marshall, Michigan; buried in Georgetown Cemetery.
      1. ARLEEN WILSON (1261) died in infancy.
      2. HARLEY WILSON (1262), the second child of Fred and Cecil Wilson was born June 12, 1913. On October 15, 1938 he married Viola Beeman (2001). They have two children. Harley passed away January 4,1991, buried in Lake Odessa, Michigan.
        1. FREDERICK CLARK WILSON (2002), born April 25, 1939. Married Susan Leslie VanderLind on April 22, 1967. Susan passed away 1970. They had no children. Frederick married Mary Frances Sacks, August 25,1972.
        2. ROGER HARLEY WILSON (2003), born February 22, 1945.
      3. DANIEL B. WILSON (2000), the third child of Fred and Cecil Wilson was born September 6, 1939. He married Peggy Adams (2004) in 1960. They have one child.
        1. BARBARA ANN (2005), born February 28, 1961.
    3. LUCY LOWING (1259), the third child of Daniel and Anna Lowing was born January 18, 1895, and died March 23, 1895.
  • MAY BELLE (LOWING) WATERS (49) was the fifth child born to Holden and Eleanor Lowing. She was born February 27, 1861. Married Charles Waters (106), who died March 6, 1932 in Ohio. May died June 26, 1901 and is buried in Georgetown Cemetery. No children were born to this union.
  • ISAAC N. LOWING (50) was the sixth child of Holden and Eleanor Lowing. He was born January 12,1863 in Georgetown Township. On March 232 1885, he married Lettie Willis (81) who died April 21,1951 and is buried in Georgetown Cemetery. Isaac was a farmer and in the early days of his marriage, operated a farm directly across the road from the Holden Lowing Home. He later operated a farm near Cedar Springs and spent the last years of his life in Grand Rapids. Isaac died February 24, 1924 and was buried in the Georgetown Cemetery. Four children were born of this marriage.
    1. Clyde B. (1263) died in infancy.
    2. WALTER LOWING (1264), was born January 24, 1889, and married Charlotte Wing (1266), January 24, 1927, who died May 10, 1938. Seven children were born to this marriage. At the age of 79, Walter passed away June 25, 1968. Buried in the Greenwood Cemetery, Grand Rapids.
      1. WALTER LOWING JR. (2007), born February 7,1928. Married Norma Hoose (3349), October 5, 1963.
        1. LEANN HOOSE (3350)
        2. NELSON HOOSE (3351), passed away Feb 2,1974.
        3. WANDA LOWING (3352), born June 19, 1964.
      2. EARL LOWING (2008), twin, born and died June 9, 1932.
      3. PEARL LOWING (2009), twin, born and died June 9, 1932.
      4. ARLENE (LOWING) BURTON, BELBOT (2010), was the fourth child of Walter and Charlotte Lowing, born March 6,1934. She married Robert Burton (2014), May 7, 1954, divorced July 28, 1967. Remarried Roy Belbot (3353), June 1, 1968.
      5. MARIE (LOWING) SMITH (2011) was the fifth child of Walter and Charlotte Lowing, born January 4, 1936. She married Ralph Smith (2015), June 26, 1953. They have five children.
        1. CERISS (2016), born September 3, 1954. Married June 27, 1974.
        2. DELLA (2017), born November 16, 1955. Married December 7, 1973
        3. DEWAYNE (2018), born March 20, 1957.
        4. CHRYSTAL SMITH (3354), born November 19, 1963.
        5. CAROLYN SMITH (3355), born May 13, 1966.
      6. BARBARA LOWING (2012) was the sixth child of Walter and Charlotte Lowing, born March 28, 1937.
      7. ALBERT LOWING (2013), was born March 28,1938.
    3. MAYBELL (LOWING) RECTOR (1265), the second child of Isaac and Lettie Lowing, was born March 13,1892. She married Orrin T. Rector (2019), February 28, 1918, at Baltimore, Maryland. Maybell died February 9, 1933. Ten children were born to this marriage.
      1. LETA E. (RECTOR) VANDERWIG (2020), oldest child was born October 18, 1918. She married John VanderWig (2030) August 18, 1952.
      2. ORRIN G. RECTOR (2021), was born May 30, 1920. He married Betty Jean Switzer (2031), March 12, 1940. Orrin died December 11, 1943. Three children were born to this union.
        1. EDITH (RECTOR) FALON (2032), oldest daughter of Orrin and Betty Rector was born December 5, 1940. She married Gordon Falon (2035), December 18, 1957 at Jackson, Michigan. They have two children.
          1. KENNETH GORDON (2036), born February 21, 1958.
          2. KEVIN LEE (2037), born December 15,1959.
        2. LILLIAN RECTOR (2033), born December 26, 1941.
        3. NANCY RECTOR (2034), born December 26, 1942.
      3. RAYMOND E. RECTOR (2022), was the third child born to Orrin and Maybell Rector. He was born August 26, 1921. He married Mae Robinson, (2035) August 8, 1947 at Columbia, South Carolina. They have three children.
        1. KENNETH R. RECTOR (2039), born September 12, 1948
        2. JACK RECTOR (2040), born December 18, 1953.
        3. RONNIE J. RECTOR (2041), born November 9,1955.
      4. DONALD DELL RECTOR (2023), fourth child born November 10, 1922 and died September 22, 1928.
      5. ORPHA M. (RECTOR) KITSON (2024), the fifth child of Orrin and Maybell Rector was born July 13, 1924. She married Dale K. Kitson (2042), January 9, 1944 at Flint Michigan. Five children were born to this marriage.
        1. MARSHA L (2043), born January 31, 1947.
        2. DENISE K (2044), born January 6, 1949.
        3. KAREN L. (2045), born July 13, 1950.
        4. MARK S. (2046), born May 17, 1952.
        5. DOUGLAS D (2047), born May 11, 1954.
      6. KEITH M. RECTOR (2025), was the sixth child born December 19,1925. He married Barbara L. Fulk (2048) April 21, 1946. at Lakehurst, New Jersey. They have six children.
        1. JAMES (2049), born April 1, 1947.
        2. LINDA (2050), born June 8, 1949.
        3. DAVID (2051), born August 7, 1950
        4. MIKE (2052), born October 10, 1954.
        5. DONALD (2053), born July 7, 1958 and died July 8, 1958.
        6. TIMOTHY (2054), born May 27,1959.
      7. BETTY J. (RECTOR) BYRNES (2026), seventh child born to Orrin and Maybell Rector was born February 18, 1927. She was adopted out and named Carolyn Cunningham. She married Paul Byrnes (2055), August 4, 1945. They have five children.
        1. BERNARD C (2056), born June 12, 1950.
        2. GARY P (2057), born April 10, 1952.
        3. DENNIS (2058), born June 5,1955.
        4. JON (2059), born December 13, 1956.
        5. JOAN (2060), born December 13, 1956, twin of Jon.
      8. MARY A. (RECTOR) MCALARY (2027), eighth child born March 28, 1929 and was adopted out as Mary A. VandenBurg. She married Gaylord McAlary (2061) July 24, 1948 and they have three children.
        1. LINDA J (2062). born December 24, 1948.
        2. VICKI G. (2063), born February 20, 1951.
        3. DANNY L. (2064) born March 27,1957.
      9. SYLVIA A. (RECTOR) VINING (2028), ninth child born to Orrin and Maybell Rector was born August 26, 1930 and adopted out as D. Arlene Croff. She married Roger Vining (2065), August 27, 1949 at Big Rapids, Michigan. They have three children.
        1. MIKE R. (2066), born August 12,1950.
        2. FRANK A. (2067), born August 5, 1952.
        3. RANDY L (2068), born October 31, 1953.
      10. GEORGE RECTOR (2029), tenth and last child died at birth February 7,1933.
    4. ALLEN W. LOWING (1267), third child of Isaac and Lettie Lowing, born September 20,1899. He married Rachel Lowell (2069), September 20, 1924 and had two children prior to their divorce. He married Mabel Mekkes (2072), April 4, 1943 and they have one child. Mabel passed away January 26, 1964. Allen served in the Armed Services during World War II and works for the City of Wyoming. At age 67, Allan passed away on March 9, 1967. Buried in the Rosedale Memorial Park, Grand Rapids
      1. JAMES LOWING (2070), first child born to Allen and Rachel Lowing was born August 20, 1924. He married Blanch Mekkes (2074), April 4, 1947. They have two children.
        1. SUZANNE (LOWING) GARZA (2075), born July 14, 1947. Married to Ruben Garza (3356), June 24, 1967.
          1. TERESA SUE GARZA (3357), born February 20, 1973.
        2. JEAN ANN (2076), born May 26, 1950.
      2. MARIAN (LOWING) KENWORTHY (2071), second child born to Allen and Rachel Lowing was born January 22, 1927. She married John Kenworthy (2077), June 3, 1944, and they have four children.
        1. MARY J. (2078), born July 30, 1945.
        2. WILLIAM J (2079), born February 6, 1947.
        3. JEAN D. (2080), born July 8, 1949
        4. FREDRICK A (2081), born November 17, 1954.
      3. WESLEY L LOWING (2073), first child born to Allen and Mabel Lowing, was born October 16, 1944. Married Linda Lou VanDrunen (3358), July 1967.
        1. KAIRI SUE LOWING (3359), born July 14, 1968.
        2. KRISTI LYNN LOWING (3360), born November 23, 1971.
        3. KONNI BETH LOWING (3361), born November 24, 1975.
  • ROSE E. (LOWING) WICKHAM (51), seventh child born to Holden and Eleanor Lowing was born July 29, 1865 in Georgetown Township. She married Charles Wickham (107), October 9, 1892, who was born in 1864 and died in 1946. Rose died April 25, 1937 and is buried in Georgetown Cemetery. Four children were born to this marriage, but all died in infancy.
    1. BENTON H. WICKHAM (1268), bony April 14, 1897, died May 5, 1897.
    2. LELA B. WICKHAM (1269), born 1901 and died 1908.
    3. ELLEN C. WICKHAM (1270), (twin) born June 3, 1907,died May 21, 1908
    4. HELEN C. WICKHAM (1271), (twin) born June 3,1907,died May 25,1908
  • DORA (LOWING) ULBERG (52), born November 24, 1866, was the eighth child and third daughter born to Holden and Eleanor Lowing. Her childhood was spent in working around the household helping her mother and caring for the large family. Many times the girls were obliged to do the work assigned to the boys of the family, because the boys would leave the wood pile and go off into the woods hunting. Undoubtedly the urge to hunt and explore came from their pioneer parents and grand parents, who spent their entire lives in the forests, clearing land and hunting as a necessity. She married Edward P. Ulberg (108), a farmer, June 20, 1889. He died May IS, 1921, and Dora died August 3, 1947, both are buried in the Georgetown Cemetery. Four children were born to this marriage.
    1. ELLA (ULBERG) PEARSON (1272), the oldest child of Edward and Dora Ulberg, was born April 7,1890. She married Albert Pearson (1276), May 10, 1911, who died January 17, 1919, at Denver, Colorado. After the death of her husband, Ella spent some time at the Winabago Indian Mission until she was called home due to the death of her father. She lived with and cared for her mother until her death. While her mother was still in good health, Ella did practical nursing. No children were born to this union. Ella passed away June 11, 1982, at age of 92. Burial at Allendale.
    2. CLARENCE C. ULBERG (1273), the second child and only son of Edward and Dora Ulberg, was born January 29, 1892. After graduation from the Canada Hill Grade School, he attended the McLaughlin Business College in Grand Rapids. He married Verna R. Swanson (1277), a schoolteacher from Allendale, Michigan, on June 20, 191 S. The early part of their marriage was spent on the Edward Ulberg farm, located one mile north of Bauer, in Georgetown Township. While living on this fare, he served on the school board of the Chrysler School; was Secretary of the Bauer Threshing Association; Secretary of the Bauer Creamery Company; and member of the Ottawa County Farm Bureau. Later lie served as agent and adjuster for the State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company for a period of 30 years. He later moved to Grandville, Michigan and served as mayor of that city for a period of five years. He has served on the Kent County Board of Supervisors for more than fourteen years. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Grandville Rotary Club for a number of years, holding the offices of Secretary and Vice President and was President Elect for the year 1962-3 for that organization. Three children were born of that marriage. Clarence C. Ulberg passed away September 24, 1976. Verna Swanson Ulberg passed Jan 3, 1983. Both are buried in Georgetown Cemetery.
      1. CRANNEL EDWARD ULBERG (1278), eldest child of Clarence and Verna Ulberg was born April 2, 1921. He graduated from Hudsonville High School and attended Grand Rapids Junior College, University of Grand Rapids, and Fordham University. He served in the armed services for a period of three years during World War II, saving in France, Belgium, Holland and Germany with the 329th Combat Engineer Battalion, 104th (Timberwolf) Infantry Division. While home on leave, he married Suzette J. Groendyke (2084), a dental assistant of Grandville, on July 12, 1945. After his discharge from service he established an office in Wyoming, Michigan. He has acted as Precinct Delegate for the Republican Party, is a past president of the Hudsonville High School Alumnae Association; Past President of the Wyoming Park Businessmen's Association; Charter Secretary, and Past President of the Wyoming Park Rotary Club. Two boys were born of this marriage. Crannel passed away September 7, 1982, aged 61. Buried in the Georgetown Cemetery.
        1. BRIAN EDWARD ULBERG (2085), born December 15, 1957. Married July 11, 1981 to Dawn Lynette Clemens (3362), born December 10, 1960, daughter of Dale and Geraldine Clemens of Wyoming.
          1. ANGELA SUZETTE ULBERG (3363), born January 28, 1987.
          2. TRAVIS LYN ULBERG (3364), born October 15, 1989.
        2. BRUCE HOLDEN (2086), born April 25, 1961.
      2. KENNETH J. ULBERG (2082), born February 8, 1924, was the second son born to Clarence and Verna Ulberg. He graduated from Grandville High School in June 1943 and immediately enlisted in the Army Air Force on June 12,1943 during World War II. He served in the European Theatre as a gunner on a B-17 Bomber, completing 35 missions over Germany, receiving the Air Medal with 5 Oak Leaf Clusters, three bronze stars to the E.A.M.E. theatre medal and a good conduct medal. Five of his missions were over Berlin. He attained the rank of Staff Sergeant. After his discharge from service in October 1945 he attended Grand Rapids Junior College prior to his marriage to B. Doreen Rasmussen (2087), January 17,1948. He was active in Little League Baseball and Scout work. He served three years on the Board of Directors of the Grandville Little League, and has served as its secretary. He also managed a team for four years, Kenneth was a traveling salesman for the ?Great Lakes ? Distributing Company. Eight children were born of t his marriage.
        1. DAVID C. ULBERG (2088), born September 28, 1948. Passed away April 26, 1971, buried in Wyoming Cemetery, Grandville
        2. DARYL S. ULBER (2089) born October 26, 1949. Married May 24, 1986 to Georgie Edinger.
        3. VALERIE A. (ULBERG) BALL, MORAWA (2090), born July 31, 1951. Married Craig Ball (3365) July 15, 1972. Divorced. Remarried December 31, 1978 to William Morawa (3368).
          1. ANDREA MEGAN BALL (3366), born May 30, 1974.
          2. TATE MICHAEL DAVID BALL (3367), born November 10, 1975
        4. ROYCE DOUGLAS ULBERG (2091), born January 18,1953. Married Dawn Raenel Daggett (3369), April 27, 1974.
          1. KEVIN JAMES ULBERG (3370), born June 25, 1977.
          2. MARK ALLEN ULBERG (3371), born March 28, 1980.
          3. JOSHUA DAVID ULBERG (3372), born November 18, 1983.
        5. DWIGHT K. ULBERG (2092), born July 3,1954.
        6. JED A. ULBERG (2093), born January 5, 1956.
        7. MAURICE B. ULBERG (2094), born April 16, 1958.
        8. MARCELYN KAY (ULBERG) WYNSMA (2095), born November 11, 1960. Married August 22, 1980 to Gary Allen Wynsma (3373).
          1. LINDSEY KATHLEEN WYNSMA (3374), born August 7, 1983.
          2. TROY ALLEN WYNSMA (3375), born July 26, 1986.
          3. WIHTNEY LEIGH WYNSMA (3376), born and died August 24,1990.
        9. STEPHEN DWAYNE ULBERG (2825), born March 10, 1963.
      3. MERLE D. ULBERG (2083), third son born to Clarence and Verna Ulberg on November 3, 1926. He graduated from Grandville High School in June 1943 as Salutatorian. While attending General Motors Institute, he enlisted in the Army Air Force as a Cadet. After his discharge in November of 1945, he continued his studies and graduated with an Industrial Engineering Degree. While in school he was associated with the Phi Tau Alpha Fraternity, Editor of the college yearbook and member of Roberts Honorary Society. He married Barbara Van Dyke (2096) January 10, 1948. Merle served on the Grandville City Commission for five years (a position he still holds). He was Chairman of the Planning Commission, a member of the Grandville Board of Zoning Appeals and a member of the Library ?Board. He is employed as Senior Methods Engineer for the Brunswick Corporation of Muskegon, Michigan. Three daughters were born of this marriage.
        1. LYNN A. (ULBERG) HASCHER (2097), born March 24 1949. Married Frederick Hascher, Jr. (3377), March 20, 1970.
          1. JODI LYNN HASCHER (3378), born January 13, 1979.
          2. JULIE SUE IIASCHER (3379), born April 11, 1982
        2. SUSAN C. (ULBERG) MULLIGAN (2098), born March 20, 1950. Married S. Craig Mulligan (3380), February 14, 1969.
          1. MICHELLE LYNNE MULLIGAN (3381), born July 11, 1969.
          2. MELISSA SUE MULLIGAN (3382), born August 14, 1974.
          3. MEGAN ANN MULLIGAN (3383), born May 28, 1979.
        3. PATRICIA JEAN (ULBERG) SNYDER (2099), born December 9, 1956. Married J. Wayne Snyder (3384), May 16, 1975.
          1. SCOTT ALAN SNYDER (3385), born September 14, 1979.
          2. SARAH MARIE SNYDER (3386), born December 16, 1982.
    3. EDITH ULBERG (1274) was the third child and second daughter born to Edward and Dora Ulberg. She was born January 13, 1894 and died at the age of 21 on November 19,1916, burial in the Georgetown Cemetery. She was not married.
    4. ADDIE (ULBERG) THOMPSON (1275) was the fourth child born to Edward and Dora Ulberg on December 28, 1896. She married Clifford Thompson (1279), October 20, 1917, who lives in Grandville, Mich. Addie died November 10, 1933, burial in Wyoming Cemetery. Two sons were born to this marriage.
      1. LEON W. THOMPSON (1280), eldest son of Clifford and Addie Thompson, was born January 2, 1918. He is a graduate of Grandville High School and attended Davenport Institute. He married Isabel Brown (2100) February 4, 1938. Leon is a traveling salesman and lives in St Louis, Missouri. Three children were born to this union. Leon passed away May 20, 1971, buried in Kirkwood, Missouri.
        1. SHARON (THOMPSON) KUHLENSCHMIDT (2101), the oldest of three daughters born to Leon and Isabel Thompson, was born Dec ember 2, 1938. She is a graduate of Evansville High School, Evansville, Indiana. She married Keith Kuhlenschmidt (2104), September 12, 1958. Both attended college at the present time. They have two children.
          1. GAIL LYNNE (KUHLENSCHMIDT) THOMPSON (2105), born July 1, 1961. Married December 28, 1984 to Joseph E Thompson, Jr. (3390).
            1. JOSEPH FREDERICK THOMPSON III (3391), born September 29, 1985
            2. GRACE ELIZABETH THOMPSON (3392), born December 5, 1989.
          2. CHERYL RENEE (KUHLENSCHMIDT) MIYAHARA (3387), born April 12, 1964. Married December 14, 1986 to Leonard Miyahara (3388).
            1. DREW KAZUTO MIYAHARA (3389), born September 5, 1989.
        2. MARSHA LYNNE (THOMPSON) BISHOP (2102), born September 28, 1940. She married Jack Richard Bishop (2826) on December 29, 1962
          1. DAWN RENE BISHOP (3393), born May 20, 1988
        3. CONSTANCE GAEL (THOMPSON) ROBERTSON (2103), born February 27, 1942. She married James David Robertson (2827), July 13, 1963.
          1. SHAWN LEE ROBERTSON (3394), born July 16, 1965.
          2. JAMES ROBERTSON (3397), born April 19, 1970.
          3. DANIEL SEUNG HWAN ROBERTSON (3395), born June 15, 1973, adopted.
          4. MICHAEL KEITH ROBERTSON (3396), born July 14, 1975, adopted.
      2. RUSSELL THOMPSON (1281), the second son of Clifford and Addie Thompson, was born February 24, 1923. He married Doris Krupp (2106) April 30, 1949 and has one stepson, Timothy. Russell is manager of the Kent County Abstract Office. He graduated from Grandville High School end enlisted in the Army Air Force January 3, 1942. Served in Australia during World War 11, end was severely wounded July 1, 1942 when his plane was forced down due to enemy fire. He attained the rank of Sergeant and was honorably discharged September 20, 1945. Russell lives in Grandville Michigan.
  • WILLIAM RILEY LOWING (53), the ninth child born to Holden and Eleanor Lowing was born September 30, 1869 in Georgetown Township. He was married June 1, 1893 to Mary Ulberg (79). He resided on a farm near the Holden Lowing homestead the greater part of his life. He operated a store in Grandville for a few years, but returned to his farm where he lived until his death. He was very active in the Grange and served as Master of the Georgetown Grange and also as Master of the Ottawa County Pamona Grange. Will also served as Treasurer of Georgetown Township. He was known as a "Good Samaritan" and influential citizen. He died June 21, 1935, Mary died July 16, 1947 and both are buried in the Georgetown Cemetery. Seven children were born to this marriage.
    1. ARTHUR LOWING (1282), was the first child born to Will and Mary Lowing on June 25, 1894. He married Vina Morrell (2108) June 28, 1916. Arthur was a salesman and member of the Odd Fellows Lodge. They lived in Wyoming Michigan. One child was born to this union. Arthur passed away at age 86 on April 29, 1981. Villa passed away October 4, 1983.
      1. EILEEN L. (LOWING) BOONSTRA (2109), only child born to Arthur and Vina Lowing was born April 18, 1920. She married George J. Boonstra (2110), February 14, 1946. Eileen is an a ccountant and her husband a supply clerk. No children have been born to this marriage. They live in Grand Rapids, MI. George died October 24, 1987.
    2. ERVIN LOWING (1283), the second child of Will end Mary Lowing was bony on July 27, 1898. He married Bernice Klekatka (2111), June 24, 1925. Ervin was Superintendent for the Jervis Corporation in Grandville, where they resided. They had one child. Ervin, aged 86 passed away August 11, 1984. Buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
      1. VIRGINIA (LOWING) STELLARD DYKSTERHOUSE (2112), only child of Ervin and Bernice Lowing was born April It, 1927. She married William Stellard (2113), May 29, 1948. They have three children. Married April 16,1966 to Raymond Dyksterhouse (3398). He was born January 11, 1921. Virginia died July29, 1990, aged 63, buried in Rosedale Memorial Park. Raymond passed away September 23,1990.
        1. DONALD E. STELLARD (2114), born July 12, 1949. Married on August 11, 1973 to Mary Katherine Meczkowski (3399), born 1953.
          1. SEASON ELIZABETH STELARD (3400), born February 28,1979.
        2. LINDA C. (STELLARD) HARTIGH, VANDERJAGT (2115) born May 12,195 1. Married Terrance Hartigh (3401), May 29, 1971. Married May 1, 1976 to Wayne Douglas VanderJagt (3402), born November 4, 1950, son of Leonard VanderJagt and Flora (Rysdyk) VanderJagt.
          1. ERIN ELIZABETH VANDER JAGT (3403), born April 19, 1978.
          2. AMBER MARIE VANDER JAGT (3404), born, October 25, 1982.
        3. SHARON K. (STELLARD) DUIMSTRA (2116), born November 20,1954. Married August 2,1980 to Bruce Duimstra (3405), born August 5, 1952
          1. JUSTIN JAMES DUIMSTRA (3406), born July 3, 1983.
    3. LILAH (LOWING) KELLEY (1284) was the third child of William and Mary Lowing, born January 28, 1901. She married Harold Kelley (2117) in 1928. Lilah a graduate nurse spent some time in this profession prior to her marriage. She and her husband resided on a farm near Sturgis, Michigan. They had four children. Lilah died January 23, 1985, buried in Sturgis, Michigan.
      1. BONNIE (KELLEY) WHEELER, (2118) the first child of Harold and Lilah was born April 2, 1930. She married Stanley Wheeler (2122), August 15, 1949. They have two children.
        1. MARK (2123), born April 6, 1951.
        2. STEPHEN (2124), born July 6, 1954.
      2. MARY J. (KELLEY) TAYLOR (2119), the second child was born January 3, 1933. She married Marlin Taylor (2175), May 18, 1952. Mary is a graduate of Sturgis High School. They live near Sturgis and have four children.
        1. TWYLA TAYLOR (2126), born June 3, 1958.
        2. MARVIN TAYLOR (2127), born Jan 25, 1960. Passed away September 30,1961.
        3. BRYAN DE VON TAYLOR (3407), born April 7, 1963. Passed away June 8, 1982, aged 19. Buried Oaklawn Cemetery, Sturgis, MI.
        4. MELVIN LAVON TAYLOR (3408), born November 3, 1964.
      3. WILLIAM KELLEY (2120), the third child of Harold and Utah Kelley, was born June 9,1934. He married Eleanor Studerman (2128), June 9, 1956. William is a farmer. He graduated from Sturgis High School and attended Michigan State University prior to two years served in the Armed Services. They have four children.
        1. WILLIAM LAWRENCE KELLEY (2129), born March 25, 1958.
        2. CHERYL KELLEY (2131), born April 18, 1959
        3. LYNDON LEE KELLEY (3409), born February 14, 1962.
        4. KENTON DARNELL KELLEY (3410), born May 25, 1965.
      4. LARRY KELLEY (2121) was the fourth child born to Harol and Lilah Kelley, born March 13, 1936. Married Marilyn Pueschel, (2131) Mary 24, 1958. Larry is a graduate of Sturgis High School, served two years in the Armed Forces and is a farmer near Sturgis. They have four children.
        1. DEBRA SUE (2132), born June 25, 1959.
        2. KRISTIN KELLEY (3411), born May 10, 1962
        3. ROBERT KELLEY (3412), born November 16, 1963.
        4. LOREN KELLEY (3413), born February 23, 1965.
    4. DORIS (LOWING) CHEYNE (1285), the fourth child, was born to Will and Mary Lowing on March 7,1902. She married Floyd Cheyne (1289), June 1, 1922, who died July 12, 1961, burial in the Coopersville Cemetery. They had three children. Doris died September 6, 1985 and was buried in the Georgetown Cemetery.
      1. LORRAINE (CHEYNE) RIDER (2133), the first child of Floyd and Doris Cheyne was born June 7,1926. She married Leon Rider (2136), and they have two children.
        1. LYNNETH (2137), born May 13, 1951.
        2. ALAN (2138), born July 21, 1952.
      2. LOIS (CHEYNE) SPENCER (2134), second child born to Floyd and Doris Cheyne was born September 18,1931. She married George Spencer (2139) June 14, 1950. They have four children.
        1. DENNIS (2140), born October 10, 1950.
        2. DAVID (2141), born April 13, 1954.
        3. EUGENE (2142), born October 27, 1955.
        4. TONJA (2143), born July 14,1960)
      3. FLOYD ALDEN CHEYNE (2135), third child of Floyd and Doris Cheyne, was born November 25, 1942. He is not married.
    5. HAROLD C. LOWING (1286), fifth child of William and Mary Lowing, was born on May 29,1905. He married Doris DeNeff (2144) of Allendale, June 28, 1930. Harold and his wife both served Georgetown Township as Treasurer. He was postmaster at Jenison, Michigan. They resided on the William Lowing homestead. One child was born to this marriage. Doris died Sept 6, 1985. Harold died March 26, 1988. Both are buried in the Georgetown Cemetery.
      1. BARBARA JEAN (LOWING) BRINK, (2145) only child born to Harold and Doris Lowing on October 25,1931. She graduated from Hudsonville High School and attended Hope College before her marriage to Irvin Brink (2146), October 9, 1954. They have four children.
        1. JEANNE MARIE (BRINK) LINDELL (2147), born April 23 1961. Married January 8, 1983 to Jay Lindell (3414).
        2. ANNE RENEE BRINK (2818), born February 2, 1963.
        3. ROBERT LOWING BRINK (3415), born November 24, 1965
        4. MARY LYNNE BRINK (3416), born January 15, 1967.
    6. GERALD LOWING (1287), sixth child of Will and Mary Lowing, was born April 3, 1909. He is a graduate of Grandville High School and Barber Chiropractor College. Previously he had taken courses in Building Contracting. Gerald married Helen Howe (2148) in 1941 and is a practicing Chiropractor. He adopted the son of his wife's by a previous marriage, Donald Lee Howe (3417). Gerald married his second wife, Bernadine (3418) June 18, 1962. She passed away in Mexico City, Mexico on October 8, 1971. Buried at Oakland Hills Memorial Gardens. Gerald died October 4, 1983. His wife Pauline also passed away.
    7. WILLIAM STEWART LOWING (2188), the last child born to William and Mary Lowing, born December 25, 1916. He married Cornelia Blanker (2150) October 2_"3, 1937. Stewart worked in Plant Protection for the Diesel Division of General Motors Corporation in Wyoming, Michigan, where he resided. They had three children. Cornelia, aged 62, passed away July 4, 1980. William remarried Eva Bronkema (3419), June 10, 1983. William died September 27, 1985 and is buried at Resurrection Cemetery.
      1. CAROLYN S. (LOWING) BAGIN (2151), born November 5, 1940. She was a nurse before her marriage February 24, 1962 to Robert H. Bagin (2154). They reside in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
        1. ROBERT LOUIS BAGIN (2829), born May 1, 1963
        2. PAUL ALAN BAGIN (3420), born February 2, 1965.
        3. SUSAN MARIE BAGIN (3421), born July 8, 1969
      2. WILLIAM N. LOWING (2152), born October 23, 1949. Married Mary Jo Leonard (3422) July 1971, divorced. Married Patti Jane Petrick (3424), September 18, 1976, she was born December 3, 1952.
        1. ADAM CLARK LOWING (3423), born October 30, 1972.
      3. MARY RITA (LOWING) GARVELINK (2153), born November 30, 1952. Married June 11, 1977 to James Lee Garvelink (3425), son of Mr. & Mrs. Ray Garvelink
        1. LINDSEY ANN GARVELINK (3426), born December 15, 1979.
  • JOHN HOLDEN LOWING (54), was the tenth child born to Holden and Eleanor Lowing and was born April 8, 1872. He married Clara Ulberg (109), December 31, 1896. Except for a short time spent in Holland, Mich. he lived on a f arm given to him by his father Holden at the intersection of what is now known as Bauer Road and 28th St. in Georgetown Township. John was active in the Grange and was a charter member of the Bauer Community Band and was a member of this band until it was discontinued many years later. He and his brother William attended rehearsals regularly, although it meant driving a horse 2 1/2 miles to Bauer. They were instrumental in encouraging a number of others to join the band, among them Roy and Floyd, nephews and sons of their brother Otis. John also loved to sing and often sang in the church choir. His wife Clara, the last living second-generation descendant of the Holden Lowing family, died February 26, 1971. John died June 20, 1914, burial in the Georgetown Cemetery. Both are buried in the Georgetown Cemetery. They had two children.
    1. THEDA (LOWING) KONING (1290), was the oldest child born to John and Clara Lowing and was born November 21, 1901. She married Hiram Koning (2155), February 24, 1927. They lived on the John Lowing farm with Theda's mother. Hiram passed away March 4,1963 and is buried in the Georgetown Cemetery. They have two children. Theda passed away October 6, 1971, buried Georgetown Cemetery.
      1. ROGER KONING (2156), is the first child born to Hiram and Theda Koning and was born October 14, 1932. He married Esther Timmer (2158), July 1, 1959. They have two children.
        1. DAWN L. (KONING) WUSTMAN (2159), born August 12, 1960. Married August 5, 1983 to Scott Wustman (3427).
          1. MICHAEL SCOTT WUSTMAN (3428), born October 21, 1985.
          2. JENNIFER LYNN WUSTMAN (3429), born July 3, 1988.
        2. DAVID WUSTMAN
        3. DOUGLAS ROGER KONING (3039), born July 7, 1964. Married October 18, 1985 to Kimberly Etterbeek (3430). Second marriage to Susan Schut (3432) on July 22, 1989.
          1. KATHERYN MARIE KONING (3431), born October 12, 1988.
      2. SHIRLEY (KONING) VANDER MOLEN (2157) was the second child born to Hiram and Theda Koning, on March 7, 1934. Shirley taught school prior to her marriage June 22, 1956 to Gene P. Vander Molen (2160). They have two children.
        1. BRADLEY G. VANDER MOLEN (2161), born July 7, 1957.
        2. KURT J. VANDER MOLEN (2162), born January 22, 1959. Married June 29, 1985 to Ellen Boersman (3433).
    2. LESTER LOWING (1291) was the second child born to John and Clara Lowing, September 29, 1905. He married Sadie VanderMarkt (2162), October 23,1926. Lester has been employed at the Michigan Consolidated Gas Company since his youth. They live in Wyoming and have four children.
      1. KENNETH LOWING (2164), is the oldest child of Lester and Sadie Lowing and was born February 14, 1930. He married Sarah Zuverink (2163), May 29, 1951. They have two children, divorced. He remarried on September 25, 1971 to June M. Gillean (3434), born June 4, 1929.
        1. KATHLEEN LOWING HOLLEMAN (2169), born July 8, 1951. Husband Holleman (3435).
          1. APRIL JOY HOLLEMAN (3436), born April 17, 1981.
        2. BRUCE LOWING (2170), born December 20, 1956. Married May 22, 1982 to Sara Aberhamson (3437), daughter of Ward Aberhamson of Ludington.
          1. STEPHANIE ANN LOWING (3438), born October 22, 1984.
      2. PAULINE (LOWING) PETERSON (2165), is the second child of Lester and Sadie Lowing and was born November 5, 1932. She married Cecil Peterson (2171), February 20,1953. They have four children.
        1. DIANE (PETERSON BRIGGS, VAN LEEUWEN (2172) born June 1, 1955. Married on December 6, 1974 to Kim A. Briggs (3439), born April 9, 1955. Married Van Leeuwen (3440).
          1. MATHEW VAN LEEUWEN (3441), born September 1984.
          2. MARY BETH VAN LEEUWEN (3442), born February 15 1987.
        2. ROBERT PETERSON (2173), born November 8, 1956. Married November 5, 1976 to Cindy Molenkamp (3443).
          1. AMY RENAE PETERSON (3444), born June 14, 1979.
          2. ROBERT JOHN PETERSON (3445), born November 1981.
        3. JAMES PETERSON (3446), born September 22, 1961. Married July 23, 1981 to Amy VanTuinen (3447).
          1. MICHAEL PETERSON (3448), born February 1982.
        4. BRENDA PETERSON (3449), born December 6, 1963.
      3. MARILYN (LOWING) BARKER (2166), is the third child of Lester and Sadie Lowing, and was born September 6, 1934. She married Leo Barker (2174), August 14, 1953. They have six children.
        1. NANCY (BARKER) RITTENHOUSE (2175), born May 29, 1954. Married on August 25, 1972 to Daniel Rittenhouse (3450), born February 20, 1954.
          1. JAIME AT-AN RITTENHOUSE (3451), born August 11, 1973.
          2. ERIC MICHAL RITTENHOUSE (3452), born December 31, 1974.
          3. JASON LEE RTTTENHOUSE (3453), born May 25, 1978.
        2. RONALD BARKER (2176), born December 14, 1956. Married August 1, 1981 to Jacqueline Piell (3454), born December 15, 1950.
          1. NATHAN ANDREW BARKER (3455), born September 25, 1984.
          2. JOSHUA DAVID PIELL BARKER (3456), born January 30, 1987.
        3. DAVID BARKER (2177), born May 1, 1959. Married July 22, 1983 to Cheryl DeKorne (3457), born June 29,1960.
          1. DAVID ALAN BARKER (3458) , born May 17, 1987.
          2. JENNIFER RANEE BARKER (3459), born May 5, 1989.
        4. MARCIA JANE (BARKER) JANICKI (3460), born April 25, 1963. Married February 14, 1988 to Randy Janicki (3463).
          1. RANDY MEGAN JANICKI (3464), born September 25, 1988.
          2. ASHLEY KAUILANI JANICKI (3465), born April 17, 1990.
        5. GREGORY LEE BARKER (3461), born May 22, 1968. Married August 5, 1988 to Kimberley Joy Bennett (3466).
        6. JULIE KAY BARKER (3462), born December 20, 1974.
      4. JANET (LOWING) VAN DYKE (2167) is the fourth child of Lester and Sadie Lowing, born August 4, 1939. She married Andrew VanDyke (2178), September 19, 1958. They have two children.
        1. JAMES VAN DYKE (3467), born July 25, 1964. Married Pamela Batma (3469).
          1. HEATHER SUE VAN DYKE (3470), born April 1984.
        2. SUSAN LYNN VAN DYKE ((3468), born February 23,1973.
  • EVA ANNETTE (LOWING) LADEWIG (55), was the eleventh child born to Holden and Eleanor Lowing. "Nettie" was born February 9, 1875. She married Charles Ladewig (110) in Georgetown Township, September 19, 1894. He died in 1944 and Nettie died January 5, 1953. Both are buried in the Georgetown Cemetery. Eight children were born to this marriage.
    1. CARL H. LADEWIG (1292), is the oldest child of Charles and Nettie Ladewig and was born September 18, 1895. He married Angeline Poot (1300), November 6,1915. He worked as a printing pressman until his recent retirement. Carl is a member of the Grange and has served as Master of Talmadge Grange and as Master of Ottawa County Pamona Grange. He is a member of the Masonic Lodge. His hobby is nurseryman and is well known for his beautiful rose gardens. Two children were born to this marriage. Carl Passed away November 28, 1968 and Angeline September 8, 1968. Both are buried in the Georgetown Cemetery.
      1. CARL J. LADEWIG, JR. (1301), was the first child born to Carl and Angeline Ladewig. He was born June 15, 1917. On November 3, 1945 he married Betty Burri (1302). They have three children.
        1. CURIA (LADEWIG) HARRINGTON (2179), born June 27, 1948. She married James Harrington (3470) on September 12, 1963.
          1. LNDA JEAN HARRINGTON (3471), born March 15, 1966.
        2. NANCY (LADEWIG) LINDBERG (2180), born January 6,1950. Married Kenneth Lindberg (3472), March 25,1907.
          1. ROBIN LEIGH LINDBERG (3473), born October 9, 1967
        3. JAMES (2181), born December 31, 1954.
      2. HENRY LADEWIG (1303) was the second child born to Carl and Angeline Ladewig on February 24, 1921. He married Josephine Horton (2182), March 28, 1941. Henry served in Italy during World War II, and became shell-shocked. They have four children.
        1. VIVIAN (LADEWIG) REYERS (2183), born January 31, 1943. She married Larry Reyers (2830), February 10, 1962.
          1. DEBRA REYERS (2831), born December 1, 1962
          2. BRENDA ANN REVERS (3474), born Nov 2, 1964
        2. HENRY A. LADEWIG JR (2184) was born September 6, 1944. He married Rosemarie E. Anthony (3041) of Tacoma, Washington on August 15, 1964
          1. CYNTHIA ELLEN LADEWIG (3475), born April 11, 1965.
          2. DAWN LADEWIG, (3476) born November 11, 1966.
        3. TOMMY (2185), twin of Johnny, born October 10, 1947.
        4. JOHNNY (2186), twin of Tommy, born October 10, 1947.
    2. JOHN LADEWIG (2193), was the second son born to Charles and Nettie Ladewig. He was born March 29, 1897. He married Ruth Telder (1308), December 31, 1920. He like his brother Carl is a Printing Pressman. They have no children
    3. ALBERT HENRY LADEWIG (1294), was the third child of Charles and Nettie Ladewig and was born February 8, 1899. He married Minnie Eva Wells (1304), March 6,1922. She died November 25, 1957. They had one child. Albert passed away January 9, 1982, buried Greenwood Cemetery, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
      1. VIRGINIA E. (LADEWIG) TERRELL (1305), was the only child of Albert and Minnie Ladewig who was born November 2, 1921. She married Wendell Leroy Terrell (2187), February 14, 1941. They have two children.
        1. DAVID M. TERRELL (2188) was born August 29,1943. Married Anne Winters (3477), January 28,1966
        2. DANNY E.TERRELL (2189), born May 26, 1947.
    4. MYRTLE (LADEWIG) LENNING (1295), was the fourth child of Charles and Nettie Ladewig and was born January 23, 1901. She married William Lenning (1306) a Captain in the Grand Rapids Police Department, August 8, 1918. William passed away March 31, 1966, interment at Woodlawn Cemetery, Grand Rapids, Michigan. They have two children. Myrtle passed away, age 76, April 29, 1977, buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
      1. WILMA (LENNING) HEYDENBERK (1307), is the eldest child of William and Myrtle Lenning and was born January 12, 1922. She married Donald Heydenberk (2191) February 28, 1942. He is manager of the AP Johnson Printing Co. They have three children.
        1. ROBERT A. HEYDENBERK (2192), born March 12, 1944. He married Judy Austin (3042) on August 22, 1964.
          1. CAROL JOAN HEYDENBERK (3478), born January 11, 1965.
        2. BA PAY HEYDENBERK (2193), born May 18, 1947. Married Barbara Thompson (3479), September 23, 1966.
          1. BARRY RONALD HEYDENBERK, JR (3480), born January 25, 1967.
          2. BRETT LOUIS HEYDENBERK (3481), born June 30, 1968.
        3. WILLIAM (2194), born October 5, 1948.
      2. HAZEL (LENNING) SCOTT (2190), is the second child of William and Myrtle Lenning and was born Ma y 27, 1925. She married Gene Scott (2195), March 21, 1958. He is a machinist in Sheet Metal Laboratory. Hazel passed away May 31, 1963. Burial at Woodlawn Cemetery in Grand Rapids, Mich. They had no children.
    5. LAWRENCE LADEWIG (1296) was the fifth child of Charles and Nettie Ladewig, born January 7, 1903. He is a printer and married Gertrude Chlebowski (2196) March 30,1923. They have three children. Lawrence, at age 74, passed away March 9, 1977 in Holland, Michigan.
      1. DONALD LADEWIG (2197), is the oldest child of Lawrence and Gertrude Ladewig and was born December 5, 1925. He married Irma Steck (2200), April 19, 1952. They have four children.
        1. JOANNE ELIZABETH (2201), born October 26,1952.
        2. ROBERT DONALD (2202), born September 12,1954.
        3. AMY LEE (2203), born January 17, 1956.
        4. LONNA JOY (2204), born June 17,1959.
      2. DOROTHY (LADEWIG) KONING (2198), was the second child born to Lawrence and Gertrude Ladewig. She was born January 24, 1924. On July 26, 1945 Dorothy married John Koning Jr. (2205). They have four children.
        1. SALLY LYNN (KONING) SPEET (2206), born June 23, 1947. Married Larry Albert Speet, November 18, 1967
        2. SUSAN LEE (2207), born June 7, 1951
        3. LARRY JON (2208), born August 16, 1952.
        4. MARY LOU (2209), born March 16,1956.
      3. NORMA (LADEWIG) MORRIS (2199), is the third child of Lawrence and Gertrude Ladewig and was born November 12, 1932. She married Roy Morns (2210), November 19, 1954. They have two children.
        1. LAUREN KAY (2211), born March 22, 1956.
        2. JON EDWARD (2212), born November 28, 1958.
    6. DOROTHY (LADEWIG) BELILE (1297), was the sixth child of Charles and Nettie Ladewig and was born June 24, 1908. She married Herbert Belile (2214), September 9, 1926, who served in the Army during World War II. He now is a farmer and a maintenance man. They have no children.
    7. ELVIN LADEWIG (1298), was the seventh child of Charles and Nettie Ladewig and was born June 25, 1911. He is a twin brother to Ervin. Elvin married Sophia Sveadas (2214), July 11, 1934. He worked as a metal polisher. They have three children. Elvin passed away August 1991 at age 77, buried in Los Angeles, California.
      1. ELVIN LADEWIG, JR. (2215), is the first child of Elvin and Sophia Ladewig and was born July 22, 1935. He married Joyce Kosten (2218), December 17, 1955. Elvin served in the U.S. Navy. They have two children.
        1. CINDY (2219), born January 5,1957.
        2. ROGER (2220), born November 21, 1960.
      2. JEAN (LADEWIG) HILTON (2216), the second child of Elvin and Sophia Ladewig, was born January 17, 1938. She married Darrel Hilton (2221), March 20,1955. They have three children.
        1. DARREL (2222), born February 20, 1956
        2. GERALD L (2223), born September 1, 1958.
        3. JEFREY (2224), born April 25, 1960.
      3. JUDY (LADEWIG) BUCKNUM (2217), the third child of Elvin and Sophia was born October 5, 1945. She married Victor Lee Bucknum (3482), July 22, 1967.
    8. ERVIN LADEWIG (1299) was the eighth child of Charles and Nettie Ladewig. He is the twin of Elvin and was born June 25, 1911. He attended Harrison High and Marne High School. Ervin is a printer and a member of Smith Memorial Church. He married Marion VanOosten (2225) in 1930 and was divorced in 1939. They had one child. In 1940 he married Gertrude Kardux (2227). One child was born to this union.
      1. LAVONNE (LADEWIG) VICARI (2226), of 2063 Michigan St., NE, Grand Rapids, Michigan, was the only child of Ervin and Marion Ladewig, and was born in 1931. She marri ed Anthony Vicari (2229), June 23, 1951 at Grand Rapids, Michigan. Anthony served in the Army from 1954 to 1956, is a National Guard. They have five children.
        1. ANTHONY VICARI JR (2230), born October 6, 1954
        2. MARY VICARI (2231), born October 24, 1956.
        3. CATHERINE VICARI (2232), twin to Carroline, was born October 30, 1960.
        4. CARROLINE VICARI (2233), twin to Catherine, was born October 30, 1960.
        5. JANET VICARI (2832), born September 1962
      2. SHIRLEY (LADEWIG) BURCH, was the second child born to Ervin Ladewig. She was born in 1942. She married Jack Burch Jr. (3043), August 1, 1964.
  • ALICE (LOWING) GREENE (56), was the twelfth child of Holden and Eleanor Lowing and was born December 20, 1877 in Georgetown Township. She married George Van Wagon (111), June 21, 1899. Lightning at their farm home in Georgetown, in June 1900, killed him. They had one child, George Jr., who was born April 18, 1900. He died in 1947. Alice was married a second time to Roy Collins (112), but no dates are available. Her second husband also died. Her third husband was Aaron Kelley (113), from whom she was divorced. They had two children. She married Edward Greene (114), February 22, 1915, who died prior to her death and was buried at Boyne Falls, Michigan. Alice died May 29, 1930 and is buried in the Georgetown Cemetery.
    1. GEORGE VAN WAGON JR. (1310) was the only child of Alice and George VanWagon. He was born April 18, 1900 and died in 1947.
    2. MYRTLE (KELLEY) LILLEY (1311) was the first child born to Aaron and Alice Kelley. She was born November 7, 1910. On September 14, 1930 she married John Lilley (2234). They have five children. John, age 75 passed away, January 18, 1978, interment Georgetown Cemetery.
      1. IRENE (LILLEY) PLATT (2235), is the first child of John and Myrtle Lilley and was born March 10, 1932. She married Howard Platt (2240), June 30, 1950. They have three children.
        1. NANCY (2241), born August 14, 1951.
        2. PATRICIA (2242), born December 31, 1952.
        3. JANEE (2243), born August 9, 1956.
      2. MAURICE LILLEY (2236), is the second child of John and Myrtle Lilley and was born June 7,1933. He married Janet Vickers (2244), February 20, 1954. They have two children.
        1. MARTIN (2245), born December 29, 1955
        2. RAYMOND (2246), born August 19, 1956
      3. WARREN LILLEY (2237), is the third child of John and Myrtle Lilley and was born August 24, 1935. He married Mary Ann Bass (2247), December 11 1954. They have three children.
        1. PAMLA (2248), born June 29, 1955.
        2. JAMES (2249), born April 29, 1958.
        3. SCOTT (2250), born March 25, 1959.
      4. LOUISE LILLEY (2238), the fourth child of John and Myrtle Lilley was born May 24, 1941. She is not married.
      5. WAYNE LILLEY (2239) was the fifth child born February 15, 1946. He is not married.
    3. ELEANOR (KELLEY) (MOYER) GOYT (1312) was the second child of Aaron and Alice Kelley and was born March 10, 1914. She married Jesse Moyer (2253) in 1933 and Bob Goyt (2255) on December 31, 1960. She has two children.
      1. ISAAC KELLEY (2252), the first child who was born June 26, 1931. He married LaVon May Kitely (2256), August 15, 1953. They have one child.
        1. VONNIE MAY (2257), born December 9, 1954.
      2. EVERETT MOYER (2254), was the second child and was born, February 23,1934. He married Bonnie Kay Skult (2258), August 15, 1953. They have five children.
        1. DELLA MARIE (2259), born May 24, 1955.
        2. JESSE EVERETT (2260), born May 28, 1956
        3. TERRY LYNN (2261), born January 21, 1958.
        4. BECKEY KAY (2262), born April 20, 1959.
        5. DALE J (2263), born October 30, 1960.
  • ESTHER BROOKLIN (LOWING) ENGEL (57) was the thirteenth and last child born to Holden and Eleanor Lowing. She was born July 31, 1881. She married William Engel (115), who was born January 29, 1877 and died February 25, 1952. He was a farmer. Esther died December 11, 1914 and is buried in the Georgetown Cemetery. They had five children.
    1. MARVIN ENGEL (1313), the first child of William and Esther Engel was born July 8, 1903. He never married. Died June 11, 1984, buried Georgetown Cemetery.
    2. DOROTHEA (ENGEL) WOODBURN (1414), was the second child born to William and Esther Engel. She was born October 27, 1905 and is a graduate of Rockford High School, where she received special honors in chemistry. Dorothy is a Registered Nurse having studied at Butterworth Hospital. She married Kenneth A. Woodburn (2264), January 1, 1931 who died July 20, 1952. Dorothea passed away June 25, 1963, buried in Wyoming Cemetery. Six children were born to this union.
      1. RONALD K WOODBURN (2265), is the eldest child of Kenneth and Dorothy Woodburn who was born October 17, 1931. He married Margaret M Meyer (2271), April 15, 1952. Ronald is a veteran of World War II. At present he is a Tool and Die worker. They have five children.
        1. RONALD K., JR (2272), born July 16, 1953.
        2. PATRICIA K (2273), born March 12, 1955.
        3. KENNETH A (2274), born February 2,1957.
        4. KATHLEEN A (2275), born April 12, 1958.
        5. RICHARD W (2276), born March 1, 1960.
      2. MARILYN A. (WOODBURN) HEILEMAN (2266), is the second child of Kenneth and Dorothy Woodburn and was born March 5,1933. She is a graduate of Grandville High School and on December 29,1951 she married Frederick A. Heileman (2277) and live in Dutton. They have four children.
        1. FREDERICK R. HEILEMAN JR. (2278), born July 23,1952. Married May 15 to Gwendlyn J. Edema (3483). Divorced October 30, 1987.
          1. NATHANIEL J. HEILEMAN (3484), born September 1, 1983
        2. KENNETH A. HEILEMAN (2279), born September 1, 1953.
        3. MICHAEL A.HEILEMAN (2280), born October 16,1956. Married May 15,1978 to Debra A Witzak (3485).
          1. REBECCA ANN HEILEMAN (3486), born September 15, 1979.
          2. KRISTIN KATHLEEN HEILEMAN (3487), born March 22, 1982.
        4. ROGER A. HEILEMAN (2281), born June 15, 1959.
      3. NANCY CAROL (WOODBURN) DE JONGE (2267), is the third child of Kenneth and Dorothy Woodburn. She was born April 5, 1934 and attended Grandville High School. She married Willard H. De Jonge (2282), a high school teacher April 1, 1953. They have two children. Nancy passed away December 18, 1969, buried in Wyoming Cemetery, Grandville.
        1. WILLARD H. DE JONGE JR. (2283), born September 26, 1955. Married April 20,1985 to Lori Lynn Lerch (3488).
          1. CHANTELLE CHARISE DE JONGE (3489), born March 22,1989.
        2. KIMBERLY R. (DE JONGE) CURTHS (2284), born November 29, 1957. Married May 16,1981 to Michael Lee Curths (3490).
          1. ANDREA LEE CURTHS (3491), born May 12, 1982.
          2. AUSTIN MICHAEL CURTHS (3492), born October 28, 1985.
      4. LARRY KENGEL WOODBURN (2268), the fourth child of Kenneth and Dorothy Woodburn, was born June 28, 1940. He married September 1972 to Rachel Naggart (3493), in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
      5. LINDA LOU (WOODBURN) CORCORAN (2269), was the fifth child of Kenneth and Dorothy Woodburn, she was born June 14, 1943. Married Thomas Frederick Corcoran (3494), October 17, 1964.
        1. CHRISTOPHER THOMAS CORCORAN (3495), born April 2, 1966.
      6. GARY RANDALL WOODBURN (2270), was the sixth child born July 9, 1946 and was a student at Grandville High School. He married Sheila Ann Vinkemulder (3496), July 15, 1967.
    3. LEE ELDRIN ENGEL (1315), was the third child of William and Esther Engel and was born July 24,1907. He married Donna L. Huckleberry (2286), March 7, 1931. Lee lived in Cedar Springs, Michigan and worked for the Wolverine Shoe and Tanning Co. of Rockford. He belonged to Masonic Lodge #213 F&AM and the Methodist Church. They had two children. Lee died July 7, 1972, buried in Cedar Springs, MI.
      1. ROBERT E. ENGEL (2287), the first child born to Lee and Donna Engel was born September 3, 1932. He married Many Elliott (2289) of Laramie, Wyoming on June 19, 1956. Robert is a graduate of Cedar Springs High School and has served eight years in the Armed Services. They have three children.
        1. JERRY LEE (2290), born March 25, 1957.
        2. REBECCA (2291), born November 9, 1958.
        3. DEB ORAH KAY (2292), born June 12, 1961.
      2. DONNA LEE (ENGEL) HOLTON (2288) is the second child of Lee and Donna Engel. She was born September 19, 1934 and is a graduate of Cedar Springs High School. She married Earl Holton (2293), August 9,1952. He is a District Manager for Meijer Super Markets. They have four children.
        1. MICHAEL HOLTON (2294), born January 21, 1954. Married October 11, 1980 to JoAnne Sowa (3497).
          1. NICHOLAS SKEETS HOLTON (3498), born April 2, 1983.
          2. KATY JO HOLTON (3499), born January 13, 1985.
          3. SARA ALLISON HOLTON (3500), born July 7, 1987.
        2. ELIZABETH ANN (HOLTON) ZILIOX (2295), born July 5, 1955. Married December 20, 1975 to Donald Ziliox (3501).
          1. DONALD ZILIOX (3502), born September 19, 1982.
        3. BRIAN HOLTON (2296), born July 30, 1957.
        4. KIMBERLY SUE HOLTON (3503), born July 24, 1966.
    4. WILBUR ENGEL (1316), was the fourth child of William and Esther Engel was born May 29, 1909. He died February 11, 1932 and is buried in the Georgetown Cemetery.
    5. CLARK JENNING ENGEL (1317) was the fifth and last child born to William and Esther Engel. He was born June 23, 1911 and graduated from Rockford High School and attended California Concordia College in Oakland, California. He married Carolyn E. Johnson (2297) of Los Angeles, California, September 16, 1945. Clark served in the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II and now works for the Postal Department. Clark has been a member of the Bethany Lutheran Church of Hollywood, California for thirty years and has sung in the choir of that church for twenty-eight years. They have two children.
      1. SHARON E. (2298), born March 12, 1949
      2. ALLEN C. (2299), born November 3, 1953.

  • This Completes The Life Of Holden Crandall Lowing And All His Known Descendants.

    Ch. 07 : Isaac Newton Lowing

    Lowing Family History

    Updated by Bruce Sheridan Lowing

    Chapter 7: Isaac Newton Lowing

    ISAAC NEWTON LOWING (71), the fifth child and fifth son of Isaac and Lavina Lowing was born at Bethany, New York, in Genesee, County, on January 27, 1823. He spent his boyhood there. Two of his brothers, Stephen and Holden, had settled in Michigan in 1841, and his father followed them in 1842, taking up land and building a cabin. The mother, and the rest of the family were to arrive the next year, when all was ready for them. Isaac, at the venturesome age of nineteen decided not to wait for the family, so in 1842, with a scant sum of money in his pocket he walked to Buffalo, and took a steamer to Detroit, arriving there with a magnificent sum of $1.25 in his pocket.

    He left Detroit on foot, carrying 27 pounds on his back. He followed an Indian trail and when he came to Grand River, he found a canoe that he paddled for two days on the river. He finally decided that the river meandered too much and he could make it faster by walking. He had a good stride, as he was six foot three. Much of the way was through a total wilderness. He finally reached Sand Creek, and crossed to the other side, where his brother Stephen had taken up land. Leaving his brother's, he struck through the dense woods to find his father's shanty. He didn"t know where to go, but finally heard someone chopping, and was overjoyed, because he said he would know the sound of his fathers axe anywhere.

    That summer, the father, Holden, Isaac and Franklin Bosworth, who had just arrived to settle his land, lived in the 10 by 14 foot shanty. The little furniture they had was all handmade, mostly of slab wood, two or three slab benches and a table, and the bunks made out of poles, fastened to the walls.

    James brought the family in 1843. It was a crowded cabin, with the father, mother, three boys and three girls. Every night the men folks had to go outside until the women folks went to bed, then they would go in and go to bed.

    For several years Isaac worked as head sawyer at different mills. The Mexican War broke out and he enlisted in the Infantry, November 15, 1847. While on the Gulf of Mexico, he rescued his comrade, William Seavey of Coopersville from drowning, at the peril of his own life. He was mustered out as Corporal, July 18, 1848. For his services in the Army, Isaac Lowing received a deed, which was conveyed to him June 1, 1850, a tract of land 160 acres on Section 30, Georgetown. On this he built his first home.

    In the spring of 1854, he returned to Bethany, Genessee Co., N.Y., and on March 28, 1854, he was united in marriage to Miss Jane West (1318) and immediately returned to Michigan with his bride.

    He was Justice of the Peace for eight years and never had a decision reversed. He filled other offices, and fought for justice and law before courts a number of years in a successful manner. As justice he officiated at many weddings for the pioneers, and was affectionately called 'squire Lowing".

    In 1871, he built the large frame house of timber from his land, and there the family lived for many years. He also built a bowery near his home for the amusement of his children and the neighborhood. It was used for dancing, until one group brought in liquor, and the next day he tore it down. He always wore tucked, stiff bosomed white shirts, which had to be laundered carefully. His wife, being unable to suit his fastidiousness, always gave them to her sister Clarinda Burlingame to do.

    Isaac passed away at his home June 7, 1908, at the age of eighty-five years. Two sons, Joe an d Elwin, and one daughter, Mrs. Ethel Ranney survived him. Jane was born December 9, 1830, died February 19, 1891, at the age of sixty. They are buried in Georgetown Cemetery. Isaac and Jane had eleven children.

    1. DANIEL W LOWING (1319) was the first child of Isaac Newton and Jane (West) Lowing, was born January 27, 1855, and died February of the same year.
    2. FLORENCE (LOWING) STEEN (1320), the second child was born September 26, 1857 in Georgetown, Michigan. She attended Georgetown District School No. 5., also called the Alward School. She became a teacher until her marriage to Claus Steen (1330), September 28, 1881. Her husband was born in the Netherlands, September 9, 1850. He was a farmer. She belonged to the Congregational Church, and was a member of the Maccabees and Gleaner's. She died May 24, 1892, and is buried in Georgetown Cemetery. They had two children.
      1. JANE ELNORA STEEN (1332), was born June 3, 1883, at Georgetown, Michigan. She attended the Alward School and made her home with her brother for many years on Blair Road near Hudsonville. She is retired and now lives with her niece in Wayne, Michigan. She belongs to the H.O.H. Jane passed away April 19, 1974 at age 91, buried in Georgetown Cemetery.
      2. WILLIAM STEEN (1331) was born in Georgetown, June 4, 1886. He attended the Alward School, and assisted his father with the farm until his father's death. He married Mrs. Carrie Sherill (2366), September 20,1940, at Grand Haven, Michigan. They have retired from farming but he continues with the poultry business. He is a member of the Moose. No children. William passed away June 7, 1975 at age 89; Carrie passed away October 29, 1974 in Zeeland at age 86, both are buried in Georgetown Cemetery.
    3. ELROY LOWING (1321), was born July 14, 1859, and attended the Alward School. He assisted on his father's farm until he was stricken with tuberculosis, and died May 1, 1880, at the age of twenty-one. He belonged to the Grange. Never married.
    4. ARTHUR LOWING (1322), was born February 14, 1861, and attended Alward School. He lived at home until he died after a long illness, March 8, 189 1. He is buried in Georgetown Cemetery.
    5. LUMAN LOWING (1323), died at birth June 6, 1862.
    6. HOWARD LOWING (1324), was born April 1, 1863, and died tow years later August 2,1865.
    7. JOE LOWING (1325), was born October 16, 1864. He attended the Alward School. For a time he taught school, he joined the Grange and was very active in that organization. He ran a store in Grandville, and later bought a farm in Trufant, Michigan. He married Violet Corwin (1333), February 6, 1907, and they had one daughter Victoria. He died at his daughter's in Tnufant, April 7, 1950. He is buried in Georgetown Cemetery.
      1. VICTORIA (LOWING) NICHOLS (1334), attended school in Scottville, and Lake Odessa, Michigan. She married Benjamin Nichols (2367), April 2, 1927, and for years lived in Trufant. They have two children.
        1. CHARLES NICHOLS (2368), born April 6, 1929
        2. STANLEY NICHOLS (2369), born August 15, 1932.
    8. ELVIE (LOWING) YOUNG (1326), was born October 30, 1867 in Georgetown Township. She attended Alward School, and lived at home until her marriage to Marvin D. Young (1335), March 31, 1885. He was a lumberman and later a farmer. They moved to Riverton Township, Mason Co., M ichigan. Elvie died October 12, 1887, when her son was only a few months old. She is buried in Georgetown Cemetery.
      1. JESSE LEROY YOUNG (1336), was born March 24, 1886 in Mason Township. He attended schools in Scottville, Michigan. He married Carrie Erma Wood (2301), of Custer Township, Mason County, November 16, 1916 at Scottville. He is a member of Masonic Lodge #445, Scottville, and belongs to State and National Grange. They have two children.
        1. WENDELL M. YOUNG (2302), first child of Carrie and Jesse Leroy Young was born in Riverton Township, October 31, 1917. He attended East Riverton Grade School, Scottville High School and Michigan State University. He married Eleanor L. Gifford (2304), June 28, 1941, at Scottville Methodist Parsonage. He is a farmer and she taught school. They are members of the Methodist Church, and the Farm Bureau. They have three children.
          1. BEVERLY JOYCE (2305), born February 27, 1948.
          2. DORIS CAROL (2306), born June 25,1950.
          3. NANCY ELAINE (2307), born August 4, 1955.
        2. ELVIS MARCIA (YOUNG) ANDERSON (2303), daughter of Carrie and Jesse Leroy Young was born August 14, 1921, in Rivertown Township. She attended the Riverton Twp School, Scottville High School, and Central Michigan University. She married Joe Warren Anderson (2308), June 26, 1943, at Coldwater, Michigan. He is a machine operator and a farmer. She is a Methodist Sunday School Teacher, Jr. Church Leader and he belongs to Masonic Lodge, Boy Scout Leader, she is a substitute teacher in the Scottville Schools. They have four children.
          1. MAX LEROY (2309), born May 11, 1947.
          2. DEAN HARLOW (2310), born February 26, 1950.
          3. BRUCE WARREN (2311), born April 16, 1952.
          4. VERN WALTER (2312), born December 23, 1954.
    9. ETHEL (LOWING) RANNEY (1327), was born at Hudsonville May 4, 1869. She attended the Alward School. She married Alvor M. Ranney (1337), May 27,1891 at Hudsonville, Michigan. They moved to Craig, Colorado where he worked as a bookeeper. She was a member of the Congregational Church, and of the Order of the Eastern Star. She died August 31, 1928 and is buried in Denver, Colorado. They had four children.
      1. ELVIS GRACE (RANNEY) WRIDE (1338), was born at Craig, Colorado, June 30,1892. She attended school at Craig, Colorado, graduated from High School at Grandville, Michigan and attended College at Greeley, Colorado. She married Harry Wride (1341), August 16, 1916 at Denver Colorado. He was a mechanic, now retired She is a member of the Presbyterian Church, Order of the Eastern Star, and belongs to the American Legion Auxiliary. They had two children.
        1. ELSON KENNETH WRIDE (1342), was born June 20, 1920, at Durango, Colorado. He attended local schools and the Colorado A & M at Fort Collins, Colorado (now Colorado State Univ.) He married Anna Mae Shideler (2313) at Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 24, 1947, and moved to Hobbs, New Mexico, where he is Electrical Engineer for the Gulf Oil Corp. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, belongs to the Masonic Lodge, and sponsor of the DeMolay, and is Republican Party Chairman of County Finance Committee. He served in the United States Marine Corps 1940-1946. They have six children.
          1. CHARLES ROBERT (2314), born January 5, 1943.
          2. KATHRYN ANN (2315), born June 30, 1948.
          3. ELLEN VIRGINIA (2316), born September 24,195 1.
          4. LIBBY LOUISE (2317), born April 4, 1957.
          5. DONALD ELSON (2318), born July 3, 1958.
          6. WILLIAM HARRY (2319), born July 3, 1958.
        2. DONALD HARRY WRIDE (2320), born June 11, 1923, at Longmont Colorado, and died March 6, 1929 at Loveland, Colorado.
      2. HOWARD NEWTON RANNEY (2300), was born May 29,1894 and died February 27,1896 at Craig Colorado.
      3. AVIS MAY (RANNEY) SORENSEN (1339), third child of Ethel and Alvor Ranney was born November 9, 1897. She attended Denver Elementary School and South Denver High School. She married Stanley L. Sorensen (2321), August 1, 1923, at Denver, Colorado. She belongs to the South Presbyterian Church, Ladies Auxiliary to Francis Brown Lowry Post #501 Veterans of Foreign Wars. Elects Chapter #60, Order of the Eastern Star. Her husband is deceased. She has six children
        1. STANLEY LYSLE SORENSEN (2322), was born June 18, 1924 at Denver, Colorado. He attended the Denver Schools. He marred Leatrice J. Brunning (2328) April 1, 1951 at Denver, Colorado. He is Denver City Fireman. They belong to the St.Paul's Lutheran Church. Is a veteran of Foreign Wars, and belongs to the Military order of the Cooties, and the Foot Printers Ass"n. He served in the US Army Medical Corp from 1943 to 1947. They have four children.
          1. VALERIE LYNN (2329), born February 3, 1952.
          2. STANLEY NEAL (2330), born January 3, 1954.
          3. JEANNETTE (2331), born February 7, 1956.
          4. JULIE RENEE (2332), born July 14, 1957.
        2. FRANK ALVOR SORENSEN (2323), born January 16,1927 at Denver. He attended schools in Denver. He married Gloria Marie Santos (2333), June 18, 1947. He is a Veteran of Foreign Wars, and the Military Order of Cooties. He served in the US Navy from January 1944 to 1946. They moved to 3024 Van Buren Dr. , Tampa, Fla., where he is associated with the Lindsley Lumber Co. at Tampa, Florida. They have one child.
          1. STEFAEN BRUCE (2334), born October 11, 1950.
        3. ROBERT SAM SORENSEN (2324), was born August 26, 1928, at Denver, and died September 22, 1937. He is buried Crown Hill Burial Gardens.
        4. RICHARD LEROY SORENSEN (2325), was born February 13, 1930, at Denver Colorado. He attended the Denver Schools. He married Mary Ann Loney (2335), April 11, 1958, at Denver Colorado. They live at 2282 So. Williams, Denver. He was in the service and is a Veteran of Foreign Wars, and Member of the Military Order of Cooties. They have two children.
          1. MATTHEW WAYNE (2336), born March 4, 1959.
          2. MARK ALLEN (2337), born March 21, 1961.
        5. EUNICE DAGMAR (SORENSEN) OSBORNE (2326), was born February 4, 1932, at Denver, Colorado. She attended school in Denver. She married Robert D. Osborne (2338). She is a member of the South Presbyterian Church. He is employed by the Martin Co. They have four children all born in Denver, Colo.
          1. STANLEY ROBERT (2339), born October 13, 1951.
          2. RICHARD MELVIN (2340), born December 29, 1952.
          3. SANDRA KAY (2341), born December 21, 1955.
          4. PATRICIA LYNN (2342), born December 7, 1961.
        6. AVIS MAUREEN (SORENSEN) ROOT (2327), was born July 26, 1940. She attended schools in Denver. She married Kenneth S. Root (2343), who served the US Navy., April 4, 1961 at Denver, Colorado. They were stationed in Coronado, California. She belongs to South Presbyterian Church.
      4. EUNICE ELIZA (RANNEY) MADDEN (1340), was born October 29,1900, at Denver, Colorado. She attended Denver Elementary School and Manuel Training High School. She married John Madden (2344) at Denver Colorado. She passed away July 31, 1925, and is buried in Denver, Colorado.
    10. MYRA LOWING (1328) was born in Georgetown, Michigan May 3, 1871 and died November 11, 1874, at the age of three. She is buried in the Georgetown Cemetery.
    11. ELWIN LOWING (1329), last child of Isaac and Jane (West) Lowing was born August 14, 1874, at Georgetown, Michigan. He attended the Alward School. He married Edith Louella Purchase (1343) July 12, 1899, at Georgetown. Elwin lived in the Isaac Lowing homestead for many years. For a few years he owned and operated a store, and later worked for the Grand Rapids Railway Company. He died December 26, 1946, and is buried in Georgetown Cemetery. They had four children.
      1. BLANCHE (LOWING) (TABOR) BERNARD (1344), eldest child of Elwin and Edith (Purchase) Lowing was born in Georgetown, June 24, 1901. She attended Alward School, Hudsonville, South Grand Rapids High and Detroit Business University. She was married to Paul Taber (2345) July 7, 1925. She belongs to the Presbyterian Church, is a member of the Nursing Associationn, Doll Clubs and WRC. She is employed as a nurse and Ward Supervisor at the Wayne County Hospital. She has one son. Marriage #2 to Mr. Bernard (2351).
        1. PAUL ELWIN TABOR (2346), was born March 3, 1929, He attended schools in Detroit and Garden City, Michigan. He married Patricia Ann McInty re (2347) September 9, 1952 at the Garden City Presbyterian Church. He owns the Garden City Welding Co., where she was a secretary before their marriage. He belongs to the Democratic Club, Optimist Club, Hawthorne Valley Golf Club. He was a Corporal in the Marines from 1945 to 1947. They have three children, all born in Garden City, Michigan.
          1. PAUL DENNIS (2348), born December 2, 1953.
          2. LINETTE MARIE (2349), born August 24, 1955.
          3. TERRI ANN (2350), born June 1, 1957.
      2. BERNICE ARMEDA LOWING (1345), second child of Elwin and Edith (Purchase) Lowing was born September 4, 1904. She attended schools at Georgetown, Hudsonville, Dutton, Grand Rapids High and Olivet College. She passed away September 26, 1924, at the age of twenty. She is buried in Georgetown Cemetery. She belonged to Wealthy Street Baptist Church.
      3. ARTHUR KENNETH LOWING (1346), was born August 21, 1908. He attended schools in Georgetown, East Grand Rapids, Bowen Station. He is a farmer, was never married and lives at Cedar Spring, Michigan.
      4. DOROTHY ALMA (LOWING) SULLIVAN (1347), was born May 11, 1911 at Georgetown. She attended school at Alward, Bowen Station, Grand Rapids, and River Rouge. She was a saleslady. She married Harry J. Sullivan (2352) May 5, 1931 at Detroit, Michigan. He was a fruit broker. She died August 22, 1939, and was buried at Holy Sepulcher, Detroit. They had two children.
        1. JAMES REGIS SULLIVAN (2353), born January 11, 1932.
        2. JEROME ROBERT SULLIVAN (2354), born August 17, 1937.

    This Concludes The Known Descendants Of Isaac Newton Lowing.

    Ch. 08 : Mary Jeanette (Lowing Bosworth)

    Lowing Family History

    Updated by Bruce Sheridan Lowing

    Chapter 8: Mary Jeanette (Lowing Bosworth)

    MARY JEANNETTE (LOWING) BOSWORTH (43), the sixth child and first daughter of Isaac and Lavina Lowing, was born June 5, 1825, at Bethany, N.Y. She attended school, and her mother gave her training to meet the rugged life of pioneer women, carding, spinning, weaving, sewing, candle making, quilting, soap from lye and ashes.

    She belonged to the Baptist Church in Bethany. She was eighteen when the family made the boat trip to Michigan, and was always proud of the fact, that in spite of the storms, she was not seasick. The family told how they padded the head and foot of their bunks to keep from becoming battered as their small ship plunged in the waves of the storms.

    Her brother, Holden had written her glowing accounts of Michigan, that their new cabin was right on the State Road, but she found only a fallen tree at the edge of their clearing in the wilderness to indicate the future site of the road, and their lovely home in Michigan was but a 10 x 14 log cabin, with a loft, reached by a ladder.

    Mr. E. Franklin Bosworth (82) had arrived in Michigan in 1842, and had taken up his land near the Lowings. As a boy he had been apprenticed to a Mr. Page of Bethany, N.Y, where he had received an education both in the common schools and at Bethany Academy. When Franklin was 21, he was offered his choice of one hundred dollars or 80 acres of land that Page had prospected in Michigan. He chose the land. He lived in the cabin with Isaac and his sons Holden and Isaac, while lie built his cabin on his nearby land. The rest of the family arrived October 18, 1843.

    Mary J. Lowing married E. Franklin Bosworth, September 25, 1846, and moved the short distance to her new home. They had many of the early hard times, but both being good managers, they were able to build one of the first frame houses in the vicinity, and she had the first carpets on the floor.

    Mary became the mid-wife of the community, and assisted at the birth of 89 babies in her lifetime, as well as being nurse for many other types of sickness. She was usually called before the doctor, and many said her entrance into the sickroom was better cure than the medicine. In spite of her large family and their needs, she welcomed many other needy people into her home.

    They had 11 children, and strived to give each one of them an education, and 6 of them taught school. Franklin was continually called upon for advice in deeds, land boundaries, while during the Civil War, he acted as agent for many of the soldiers, guarding their property and paying their taxes.

    September 25th 1896, Mary and Franklin Bosworth celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary, surrounded by their children, relatives, friends and neighbors. A dearly loved and highly respected couple, that had given of themselves, and due to their presence had made their community a better place to live.

    Franklin died February 23, 1899, and she lived in the old homestead until her last illness. She died at the home of her youngest daughter Gertrude Gillett, June 4, 1903. They both are buried in the Georgetown Cemetery.

    1. MARY E. (BOSWORTH) LOWING (83), the first child of Mary Lowing and E. Franklin Bosworth was born in Georgetown, July 12, 1848. She attended Canada Hill School, and a Teacher's training school in Grand Rapids. She taught her first school at Jamestown, when that area was just a few cab ins in the woods. She also taught her home school and Haire's School before going to Manlius, Illinois in the Fall of 1869, to teach there and live with her Uncle Elisha and Aunt Libby. She married Hulburt Loring (91), December 25,1870 of Manlius, Illinois and died in Childbirth June 27 1872. She is buried there.
    2. FRANK E. BOWORTH (84), was born June 5, 1850 and died February 25,1853. He is buried in the Bauer Road Cemetery.
    3. CHARLES E. BOSWORTH (85), was born June 13, 1852, in Georgetown Township as the second son of Mary J. Lowing and Edward F. Bosworth. He taught school for a short time before his marriage to Margaret Sheridan (92) of Allendale on June 11, 1883. Most of his life was spent as a farmer. They lived for several years on the old E. Franklin Bosworth homestead. Charles E. followed the school interests of his father, and likewise was Director of the Georgetown No. 1 District for many years. It was often called the Bosworth School as well as Canada Hill School. He also served several terms as township Supervisor. He retired in 1922 and built a home in Grandville. Charles died, February 26, 1926 and his wife in 1936. They has six children, four of them lived to adulthood.
      1. SUSAN (BOSWORTH) BERGER (1350), was born October 22,1886. She married William H. Berger (1359), April 26, 1911. William Berger was a farmer and automobile dealer. He founded the Berger Chevrolet Company that he operated in association with his sons. It is one of the oldest automobile agencies in Michigan. He was active in civic and business affairs. Susie, as she was known, died in 1957. William lived in the family home on Cottonwood Drive in Georgetown Township. They had three children.
        1. R. DALE BERGER (1360), was born May 26, 1914. He graduated from Grandville High School and was general manager of the Berger Chevrolet in Grand Rapids. He married Gretchen VanderNoot (2373) on August 27, 1936. They had three children. Dale was divorced and was married to Vivian Burback (2377) in 1961. They reside in Grand Rapids. Vivian passed away June 15, 1988. R. Dale passed away September 3, 1990
          1. R. DALE BERGER, JR. (2374), was born December 23, 1938. He graduated from East Grand Rapids High School and attended General Motors Tech. Following the family tradition. He is associated with his father and grandfather in the automobile business. He is used car manager for the Berger Chevrolet in Grand Rapids. R. Dale, Jr. married Lynne Ludlow (2378), March 29, 1958. They have two children.
            1. MATHEW SHAWN BERGER (2379), born March 11, 1959. Married Sharie Lynn Vas (1491), daughter of J. Roger and Marily (VanderZon) Vos of Grand Rapids, MI, on July 21, 1984.
            2. JODY LYNNE BERGER (2380), born November 8, 1961.
          2. KAREN SUZANNE (BERGER) WHITE (2375), was born November 1, 1941. She graduated from East Grand Rapids High School and attended Michigan State University. She married Thomas White (2381) in 1959. He is a sales representative for an electrical firm. They have one child.
            1. JACQUELINE SUE (2382), born in 1960.
          3. WILLIAM H. BERGER (2376), born January 19, 1945.
        2. NED BERGER (1361), second son of William and Susie Berger, was born April 5, 1916. He graduated from Grandville High School. He married Lenore Richardson (2383), August 15, 1936. Ned operates the Berger Chevrolet in Ionia, Michigan, where the family makes their home. They have three children.
          1. NED BERGER, JR. (2384), born in 1942, attended Michigan State University
          2. DIANE (2385), born in 1945, attended Ionia High School.
          3. DEBRA (2386), born in 1951.
        3. WILLIAM C. BERGER (2372), was born February 9,1928. He graduated from Grandville High School. In 1950 he married Mary VanderLey (2387). William operates the Berger Chevrolet in Greenville, Michigan. Their home is in Belding, Michigan. They have three children.
          1. WILLIAM C., JR. (2388), born September 18, 1951.
          2. MARY LYNN (2389), born December 7, 1953.
          3. SCOTT MINER (2390), born February 19, 1961.
      2. CARL C. BOSWORTH (1349), was born January 26, 1889. He attended Grandville High School. He married Anna DeVree (1353), March 12, 1912. His early life was spent as a farmer. Later he was an automobile salesman He moved from the family farm to Grandville in 1924 where he lived until 1946 when he moved to his present home in Georgetown Township. Carl served as a school board member and served several terms as a justice of the peace both in Grandville and Georgetown. Anna died in 1949. They had seven children. He was married to Rose Hansen (2391) in 1953. They live at 9197 Cottonwood Drive in Georgetown Township.
        1. WARREN BOSWORTH (1354), was born December 9, 1912. He graduated from Grandville High School. He married Mina Phillips (2394), January 21, 1939. Warren worked in a supervisory job for the Porter Hadley Company in Grand Rapids, for many years. He graduated from Western Michigan University in 1962 and is now a schoolteacher in Grandville High School. He has served several terms as a school board member. Mina is office secretary for the Jenison Public Schools. They have three sons. Warren passed away December 3, 1985.
          1. STEPHEN W. BOSWORTH (2395), was born December 4, 1939. He graduated from Grandville High School in 1957 and from Dartmouth College in 1961. He was married to Sandra DePuit (2398), September 1961. Stephen served with the United States Department of State as Vice Consul to Panama
            1. ANDREW CARL (2399), born July 21, 1962.
            2. ALLISON LEE BOSWORTH (3504), born September 1, 1966.
          2. BARRY P. BOSWORTH (2396), was born August 14, 1942 and was a student at the University of Michigan. He married Nancy DePuit (3505), August 7,1965.
          3. BRIAN R. BOSWORTH (2397), born October 8, 1943, was a student at Dartmouth College. Brian married Sally Plamondon (3506), June 12, 1965.
            1. MICHAEL BRIAN BOSWORTH (3507), born October 19, 1966.
            2. KRISTINA LYNN BOSWORTH (3508), born November 22, 1968.
        2. MARGARET (BOSWORTH) JACOBS (1355), was born January 5, 1915. She graduated from Grandville High School and attended Central Michigan College. She married Louis Jacobs (2400), March 16, 1940. Louis is an accountant employed by the Oliver Company of Battle Creek. Margaret is advertising manager for the Sears Store in Battle Creek. They have two children and live at 265 Hunter, Battle Creek, Michigan. Louis passed away July 23, 1973. Buried in Battle Creek, MI. Margaret passed away March 1989.
          1. JAMES M. JACOBS (2401), was born November 13, 1943, graduated from Battle Creek High School in 1961 and served in the armed forces.
          2. LINDA ANNE JACOBS (2402), born May 20, 1949.
        3. WILLIAM ROBERT BOSWORTH (1356), was born March 20, 1918. He graduated from Grandville High School. He was married to Mary Cronheim (2403), January 13, 1942. William served five years in the Army during World War 11. He served in France with the 100th Division and was discharged from the Army in 1945 with the rank of 1st Lieutenant. He was awarded the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart. After the war, he spent several years homesteading in Alaska. He returned to the States in 1950 and is now superintendent of the Hi-Ram Company in Grand Rapids. William served several years as a member of the Grandville City Commission and is now on the Kent County Board of Supervisors. Bill and Mary have four children and make their home at 3780 Cheyenne Drive, Grandville.
          1. WILLIAM R. BOSWORTH, JR. (2404), was born March 27, 1943 and was a student at Grand Rapids Junior College. Married Linda Prins (3509), February 10, 1967.
            1. WILLIAM R. BOSWORTH III (3510), born June 6, 1968.
            2. SARA CHRISTIN BOSWORTH (3511), born April 6, 1971.
          2. SUSAN M. (BOSWORTH) BUKREY (2405), born January 1, 1945. Married James Bukrey (3512), June 27, 1970.
            1. JESSICA MARIE BUKREY (3513), born November 14, 1973.
            2. BENJAMIN JOSEPH BUKREY (3514), born December 21, 1975.
          3. JON DANA BOSWORTH (2406), born February 27, 1950. Passed away, age 25, February 3, 1976
          4. KELLY M. (BOSWORTH) STOKES (2407), born March 11, 1951. Marriage-2 to Michael Stokes (3515), September 23, 1972.
            1. CASSANDRA MARY STOKES (3516), born February 16, 1971.
            2. KATE ANNA STOKES (3517), born December 23, 1974
        4. JOAN (BOSWORTH) MCCLOW (1357), was born July 24, 1920. She graduated from Grandville High School. She was married to Ray McClow (2408), October 3, 1941. Ray is employed in the construction industry as a welder. He served with the army overseas during World War II. Both are active in local church and community affairs. They live at 4616 36th St. SW, Grandville, but expect to move to a farm home they are remodeling in Georgetown Township. They have five children. Ray passed away December 28, 1989.
          1. KARIN K. (MC GLOW) ORR (2409), born September 27, 1942 and attended Albion College. She married Vance Orr (3518), March 29, 1965.
            1. DIERDRE ELLEN ORR (3519), born May 28, 1967.
            2. DAITLAN ORR (3520), born 1971.
            3. MAURYA KATHLEEN ORR (3521), born April 14, 1980
            4. VANCE WOLMUTH ORR (3522), born November 4, 1982.
          2. LISA M. (MC GLOW) BERRY (2410), born January 15, 1947. Married Chris W. Berry (3523), April 7,1967.
            1. AARON PATRICK BERRY (3524), born January 13, 1969 in Washington, D.C.
          3. MICHAEL RAY MC GLOW (2411), born September 27, 1952. Married Carol Albrecht (3525) of Hudsonville on December 16, 1972. Carol born February 12, 1953.
          4. JILL ELLEN (MC GLOW) BURKE (2412), born September 2, 1953. Married Phillip Burke (3526) of Wyoming, MI on August 26, 1972. Phillip born September 3, 1951.
          5. AMY LEE (MC GLOW) JUREWICZ (2413), born December 24, 1960. Married Gerald Michael Jurewicz (3527), son of Gerald and Janet Jurewicz, on August 31, 1979. Gerald born April 10, 1959.
            1. JEREMY JOSEPH JUREWICZ (3528), born September 27, 1980.
            2. TOBY MICHAEL JUREWICZ (3529), born March 10, 1983.
        5. FRANKLIN CARL BOSWORTH (1338), was born October 21, 1922. He graduated from Grandville High School and the University of Michigan. He was married to Lorraine Gaunt (2414) in 1941. They have four children. After serving overseas with the Army Air Force Intelligence during World War II, Franklin returned to the University of Michigan and received his M.S. degree in 1947. Since that time he has been employed by the DuPont Corporation. He is now a sales executive for that organization. He was divorced and remarried
          1. MORRIS A. BOSWORTH (2415), born August 27, 1942, is in the Air Force. He married Alicia Rodriquez (3530), September 17, 1964
            1. ADRIANNE BOSWORTH (3531), born December 22, 1965.
            2. BENJAMIN THOMAS BOSWORTH (3532), born January 8, 1968.
            3. NATHAN ALLAN BOSWORTH (3533), born January 8, 1968
          2. FRANKLIN C. BOSWORTH, JR. (2416), born May 20, 1947, is a student at Grandville High School.
          3. ANNE LORRAINE BOSWORTH (2417), born June 30,1950, is in school at Stone Mountain, Ga.
          4. BEVERLY CHRISTINE BOSWORTH (2418), born March 22, 1952, is in school at Stone Mountain, Ga.
        6. CAROL ANN (BOSWORTH) SNYDER (2392), was born January 26,1925. She graduated from Grandville High School and Greenville College. She was married to Arthur Snyder (2419), September 5, 1945. Arthur is a graduate of Grandville High School, Greenville College, Asbury Seminary and received his M.S. degree from the University of Michigan. He served the armed forces during World War II. He is now a science teacher in the Ann Arbor school system. They have four children, and live at 1486 Cedar Bend Drive, Ann Arbor, Michigan
          1. CLARENCE H. SNYDER (2420), born May 27, 1950.
          2. TIMOTHY A. SNYDER (2421), born July 24, 1951.
          3. THOMAS L. SNYDER (2422), born May 26, 1953.
          4. ELIZABETH A. SNYDER (2423), born August 19, 1957.
        7. MARY L EE (BOSWORTH) ROBERTS (2393), was born June 29, 1930. She graduated from Grandville High School and attended the University of Michigan. She was married to Claude Roberts (2424), November 7,1954. They have four children. Before their marriage Mary Lee was engaged in Newspaper work. Claude is a schoolteacher and is now a junior high principal in Royal Oak School system. They live at 609 Hawthorne, Royal Oak, Michigan.
          1. JENNIFER C. ROBERTS (2425), born October 1, 1955.
          2. CLAUDIA J. ROBERTS (2426), born August 9, 1957.
          3. CHRISTOPHER D. ROBERTS (2427), born June 5, 1960.
          4. JEFFRY ROBERTS (3535), born December 22, 1964.
      3. LEE BOSWORTH (1351), was born January 25, 1890. He graduated from Grandville High School. He was married, February 14,1912 to Janet De Hart (1362). They had two children. He was employed for many years as a rate clerk for the Pennsylvania Railroad. Later he was a buyer for the Herpolsheimer Department Store. He and his wife Janet played and managed a dance orchestra that was very popular for dance engagements in western Michigan for many years. He died in June 1929 and was survived by his wife and two children.
        1. JUNE MARGARET (BOSWORTH) STANDER (1363), of 820 Washington Road, Grosse Pointe, Michigan, the eldest child of Lee and Janet Bosworth, was born July 3rd 1913 in Georgetown. She attended Grandville Elementary and High School and Davenport McLaughlin Business College. She married Melbourne Stander (2428) September 22, 1934 at East Congregational Church in Grand Rapids. He is Manager of the Northwestern National Life Insurance. She was Assistant Director of Grosse Pointe children's theater. He was two years in World War II. He is a member of Players, both are members of Fine Arts, belong to Grosse Pointe Memorial Church, Detroit Life Underwriter's Association and Life Agency Managers Association. They had two sons. June of St Clair Shores, aged 69 passed on January 17, 1983. Buried in Georgetown Cemetery.
          1. DAVID STANDER (2429), was born at Butterworth Hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan, March 22,1937. He has served six months in the National Guard. He is a writer at Jam Handy. He graduated from Grosse Pointe High School and the University of Michigan. David married July, 1962
            1. JEFFREY STANDER (2883), born May 1963.
          2. RICHARD BOSWORTH STANDER (2430), was born November 6, 1947. He sings in a U.S.O. Unit all over Detroit and also makes movies for Jam Handy (This is a Sales Promotional firm).
        2. LEE BOSWORTH, JR. (1364) was born July 24, 1921. He graduated from Grandville High School. He was married in 1942 to Dawn Barnum (2431). They have three children. Lee served with the Armed Forces overseas during World War It. He is now employed as a shipping clerk. He inherited musical ability from his parents and also plays in dance bands. The family makes their home at 3389 Vermont, Grandville, Michigan
          1. SHERIDAN LEE BOSWORTH (2432), born September 22, 1943. Graduated from Grandville High School and is now employed by an office supply company in Grand Rapids. Married Melvina J. Stefon, October 3, 1964.
            1. ROYAL STEVEN BOSWORTH, born August 24, 1965 Married January 13, 1990 to Shelia J. Fairbairn.
          2. CHERYL ANN BOSWORTH (2433), born May 23, 1948.
            1. DAWN MARIE CARROLL (3666), born 1968, died August 17, 1985, buried in Georgetown Cemetery.
          3. BONNIE JEAN BOSWORTH (2434), born November 2, 1951.
      4. MARGUERITE BERNICE (BOSWORTH) CORY (1352), was born on the original Bosworth home, June 24, 1893, at Georgetown. She attended Canada Hill School. She married Clyde Cory (1365), June 20,1917, and moved to Hudsonville, where he worked in the B&T Hughes Hardware Store. After the sale of this business, he purchased blueberry farms. She belonged to the Congregational Church, and the Ladies Society, PTA. and the Georgetown Grange. She passed away April 6, 1960, Clyde passed away at age 86 on February 20, 1976 both are buried in Georgetown Cemetery. They had three children.
        1. THOMAS NELSON CORY (1366), the oldest child of Marguerite and Clyde Cory was born at Hudsonville, Michigan, March 5, 1920. He attended Hudsonville Public School and Grand Rapids University. He worked as a pharmacist at Hudsonville Drug Store for several years. He was a Medical Corporal in World War II., belongs to the Y.M.C.A. and Congregational Church.
        2. GENE BOSWORTH CORY (1367) was born at Hudsonville, Michigan, June 15, 1921. He attended Hudsonville Public School, and was a student at Grand Rapids University, at the time of his death October 7, 1940. He is buried in Georgetown Cemetery. He was a member of the Y.M.C.A. and the Congregational Church.
        3. EILEEN DAWN CORY (2435), was born May 13, 1923, at Hudsonville, Michigan. She attended Grand Rapids Business College, and Hudsonville Schools. She is employed in Grand Rapids, belongs to the Congregational Church and is a director of the Girl Scouts.
    4. LIZZIE E. BOSWORTH (86), was born December 15, 1853 at Georgetown. She attended Canada Hill School, and became a teacher, in the township schools. She passed away May 27, 1877 at the age of twenty-four. She was unmarried
    5. EDITH F (BOSWORTH) (TULIP) JAYNES (1348), was born February 4,1856. She taught in several schools of the township before her marriage to J.H. Tulip (1368) and their removal to Grand Rapids. They had one son Harry Edward Tulip, She was married a second time to Albert Jaynes (1370), and they were living in Grandville, Michigan at the time of her death, March 21, 1937
      1. HARRY EDWARD TULIP (1369), was born June 27,1881. He attended Madison Ave. School and Central High School in Grand Rapids. He married Ellen G. Wallace (2436) January 14, 1939, at Grand Rapids, Michigan. He worked for forty years for the Oregonian newspaper. He is Past Master of the Masonic Order, was 12 years on the Executive Board of the Oregonian Credit Union, and on the Legislative Board of Railroad Retirement Unit #55. He lives at 5917 N.W. 32nd Ave., Portland 11, Oregon. He has no children.
    6. WILLIAM BOSWORTH (87), was born August 21, 1859. He attended the Canada Hill School, and after a few years working on the farm, he left for Grand Rapids to live. He married Bessie Sponable (93) of Georgetown, April 11, 1883. He worked for years, at the Morley Bros. Wholesale Hardware Company of Grand Rapids. After he retired he spent many happy days at his sugar bush on the land that was known as Bosworth woods. It is now Hagar Hardwood Forest Park. He had one son.
      1. WALLACE CLAY BOSWORTH (1372), was born March 10, 1884, graduated from Central High School in Grand Rapids in 1903 and moved to Chicago where he spent 45 years with the telephone company, including 1 1/2 years with the same company in Korea. He married while in Chicago, had two sons, and is now retired to a farm in Barber, Arkansas. Wallace passed away at age 93 in Alexandria, Arkansas, on October 27, 1977, buried in Grandville, MI.
        1. WILLIAM JOSEPH BOSWORTH (2437), of DeKalb, Illinois was born July 30, 1911 at Chicago, Illinois. He is graduate of Howe Military School. He is active in the Boy Scouts, and is an actor in the local Summer Stock Co. He married and has two sons
          1. JOSEPH BOSWORTH (2439), was born March 31, 1940 and in the Airforce
          2. ROBIN BOSWORTH (2440), was born April 30, 1943 and is midshipman at Annapolis.
        2. WALLACE CLAY BOSWORTH (2438), was born January 10, 1921 in Chicago. He is a major in the Army Airforce. He is married and has two children.
    7. BERTHA BOSWORTH (2370), twin to Arthur were born January 11, 1861 and died within four days after birth. Buried in the Bauer Road Cemetery.
    8. ARTHUR BOSWORTH (2371), twin to Bertha, was born January 11, 1861 and died within four days after birth. Buried in the Bauer Road Cemetery.
    9. NELLIE (BOSWORTH) SHERIDAN (88), was born in Georgetown, Michigan, December 16,1861. She attended the Canada Hill School and took special normal courses at Grandville, Grand Rapids and Grand Haven. She taught ten years in various schools in the County, the first at Haire's. She married John Sheridan (94) at the Bosworth family home, December 12, 1887, and they moved into the Sheridan family home in Allendale. Two children were born there before they made the next two moves, the last place which became their home for many years, and where all the children grew to maturity. Of their nine children, the last six were twins, Frank and Terence, Beatrice and Berenice, and the last two a boy and a girl who they named after themselves, John and Nellie. John T Sheridan, with the assistance of his family farmed this land for many years. In his later years, he turned the farm over to his son Frank and retired to a farm north of Pearline, where both John and Nellie spent the rest of their lives. John was born at Blith, Ontario Canada, April 12, 1862, and passed away February 20, 1938. Nellie died May 1 1946. Both are buried in the Allendale Cemetery.
      1. MARY (SHERIDAN) LOWING (14), the oldest child of John and Nellie Sheridan, was born October 6, 1888 in Allendale Township. She attended Blakeney School, Allendale High School and Ferris Institute. She married Roy Holden Lowing (13) October 29, 1913 at the Sheridan Family Home. They lived in Grand Rapids and later moved to the former home of Roy's father, Otis Lowing, in Georgetown Township. Roy is a farmer. She was Past Matron of the Grandville Chapter of the O.E.S. in 1940-41, and a member of the Past Matron's Club. She was affiliated with the Grandville-Jenison Congregational Church, and an active member of the Georgetown Grange. They have five children: Otis J., Hugh C., Wayne, Boyd J., and Mary Joyce. Their history follows the life of Roy Lowing, under the Holden Lowing family.
      2. CHARLES SHERIDAN (95), Neilsville, Minnesota, was born at Allendale, Michigan, December 17, 1890. He attended Blakeney School and Allendale High School. Charles as a young man joined his Uncle Charles Sheridan, some cousins and fri ends and went into northern Minnesota to homestead a section of land. It was wet land, taking hard work to drain it. He built a small cabin and married Olga Swenson (1374), Jan 14, 1914 at Warren, Minnesota. Blanche, their first child, was born there. When they had proved upon the land they returned to Michigan for a couple of years. When they went back they settled at Neilsville. They belong to the Lutheran Church and the Farmer's Union. They have seven children.
        1. BLANCHE EMOGENE (SHERIDAN) EINARSON (1375), of Goodridge, Minnesota, was born February 22, 1915 at Esplee Township, Marshall Co. She married Harold Curtis Einarson (2444) December 27, 1933 at Neilsville, Minn. He is a farmer and she a housewife. They belong to the Lutheran Church, are members of the Farmer's Union, have hobbies of painting, horseback riding, and big game hunting. They have no children.
        2. BERENICE (SHERIDAN) HOWLAND (1376), of 702 17th St., North Moorhead, Minnesota, was born August 15,1917 at Flint, Michigan. She married Harley M. Howland (2445), October 12,1939, at Shelly, Minn. He is Supt. Farmer's Union Grain., Terminal Association--Fargo Division. She was a Beauty Operator. They were active members of Our Savior Lutheran Church; Minnesota's Farmer's Union; Elks and Elkette Lodge; ETA. and all school activities. Cub Scouts, and Y Indian Guide Program. He collected rocks and minerals and polished stones from which he made and sold jewelry. She painted in oil, and did artwork for various organizations, including TV. They had two children. Berenice passed March 24, 1987 and was buried in St. Petri Cemetery, Nielsville, Minnesota.
          1. HARLEY M. HOWLAND, JR (2446)., was born December 8, 1940. He graduated from Brown's Institute of Radio and T.V. He is a radio announcer, plays the guitar and sings and is active in all music groups. Married Carolyn Oke (3539), July 6, 1963.
          2. DAVID W. HOWLAND (2447), was born April 8,195 1. He plays the piano and sings in the junior choir.
        3. DORIS JAYNE (SHERIDAN) BRAATEN (1377), of Nielsville, Minnesota was born February 17, 1920 at Goodridge, Minnesota. She married Christopher Braaten (2448) January 14,1939 at Nielsville, Minn. He is a farmer and she is a housewife. They are members of the Church Council, the School Board, and she is member of Ladies Aid. They have one son. Christopher passed away June 23, 1989, buried in Nielsville, MN.
          1. CHRISTOPHER BRAATEN, JR. (2449), born at Crookston, Minn, December 9, 1940. Married Helen Metzger (3540), November 28, 1964
            1. PATRICA ANN BRAATEN (3541), born May 27, 1965.
        4. CHARLES LAMBERT SHERIDAN, JR (1378)., of 125 5th Ave., North Shelby, Montana was born December 31, 1921 at Goodridge, Minn. He married Elizabeth Lorraine Hunking (2548), August 28, 1940 at Neilsville, Minn. He is a member of the U.S. Border Patrol (IMM & NAT). She is a housewife. He was in the U.S. Navy--ARM 3/c Aviation Radio Man. They have four children. Second marriage to Shirley Nelson (3542), October 1964.
          1. JUDITH KAY (SHERIDAN) KRATTIGER (2459), born March 3, 1942. Married Larry Krattiger (3543), June 17, 1961.
            1. DOUGLAS KRATTIGER (3544), born December 12, 1962.
          2. GERALDINE RAE SHERIDAN (2460), born August 3, 1944.
          3. JACQUELINE FAYE SHERIDAN (2461), born July 5, 1949.
          4. CHARLES LAMBERT SHERIDAN (2462), born October 8, 1951.
        5. GLENN RAY SHERIDAN (2441), of Murdock, Minnesota was born Sept 4, 1925 at Nielsville, Minn. He is a Grain Buyer. He served in the Navy 1942-46 in 3rd and 5th fleets, and again in the U.S. Navy 1951-55 in 1st Marines. Was in Korea in 1951. He married Arlyne Nelson (2463), June 18, 1947. They had four children. They are now divorced. Second marriage to Gertrude Sellner Hacker (3545), June 2, 1963.
          1. MICHAEL GLENN SHERIDAN (2464), born April 6, 1948.
          2. JOHN PHILLIP SHERIDAN (2465), born January 12, 1951.
          3. KATHRYN LOUISE SHERIDAN (2466), born April 19,1955.
          4. PAUL ELLIOT SHERIDAN (2467), born June 2, 1957.
        6. LESLIE DUANE SHERIDAN (2442), of Fertile, Minnesota was born January 8, 1928 in Scandia Township, Minnesota He married Virginia Shipstead (2468), February 2,1950 at Crookston, Minn. He is a farmer. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1946 to 1947. They belong to the Lutheran Church. They have three children.
          1. SHARON MARIE SHERIDAN (2469), born November 30, 1950.
          2. DUANE ALLAN SHERIDAN (2470), born April 25, 1955.
          3. LINDA JO ANN SHERIDAN (2471), born September 12, 1960.
        7. DONALD M. SHERIDAN (2443), of Beltrami, Minnesota was born May 25, 1931 at Crookston, Minnesota. He married Carol Lund (2472), February 15, 1950, at Crookston, Minnesota. He is a farmer. They belong to the Lutheran Church, are members of the V.F.W. and D.A.V. He was a private in U.S. Army and was in the Korean Campaign. They have three children.
          1. THOMAS DUANE SHERIDAN (2473), born August 22, 1953.
          2. JAMES ALLEN SHERIDAN (2474), born June 10, 19 57.
          3. PAMELA JEAN SHERIDAN (3546), born September 25, 1961.
      3. THOMAS SHERIDAN (96), the third child of Nellie and John Sheridan was born August 16, 1892 in Allendale Township. He attended Blakeney and Allendale Schools and Ferris Institute. As a young man he went to Kansas to work in the harvest fields. While working on a ladder, he fell and broke his back, from which accident he never regained the use of his limbs, and had to spend the rest of his life in bed or a wheel chair. Thomas will always be remembered for the cheerful way he met this affliction. He learned to carve wood, and did some frame work. He amused his family by his violin playing, and his croquet games that he manipulated from his chair. His room was a happy place, full of laughter, and he was an inspiration to anyone fortunate enough to know him. At the time of his death, May 8th 1923, he left a host of friends, who had loved him, because he had smiled and laughed his way through those years.
      4. FRANK B. SHERIDAN (97), of Avery St., Allendale, Michigan was born December 12, 1893 in Allendale, Township. He attended Blakeney School and Allendale High School. He married Fannye E. Stevens (1379 ) November 3, 1921 at Allendale. She was born October 30,1895. He served in World War I in the 505 Air Wing # 1. He is a farmer and at present, the Postmaster at Allendale, Michigan. She is a teacher, holding an A.B. Degree. He is a School Director, Trustee of Allendale Wesleyan Methodist Church. They have five children.
        1. LOIS ERMA (SHERIDAN) ELLIS (1380), oldest child of Frank and Fannye Sheridan was born October 23, 1923. She attended school at Coopersville High, Michigan State University, Marion College, Indiana; Ed. W. Sparrow Hospital School of Nursing. She is a Wesleyan Methodist Church Member. She was the Student Nurse of the Year for State of Michigan in 1952. She belongs to the American Dietetics Ass'n and American Nurses Ass'n. She was Missionary to Sierra Leone, West Africa with Wesleyan Methodist Church from September 1953 - the time of the writing of the original book. She has a BS degree, Michigan State University-1945. Dietetics Internship - Christ Hospital Cincinnati Ohio, 1946. M Rel Degree Marion College, Marion Indiana, 1950. RN Ed W. Sparrow Hospital, Lansing Michigan, 1953.
          1. DAVID MALCOLM ELLIS, born June 21, 1956 (stepchild)
          2. DEBORAH JOY ELLIS, born January 10, 1962 (stepchild)
        2. ALTON BERNARD SHERIDAN (1381), of 3515 Fairmont Blvd, Cleveland, Ohio, was born January 7,1925 at Allendale Township. He attended Coopersville High School, Calvin College, M.A., and University of Michigan E.D.D., Michigan State. He married Vivian Aylworth (2475), August 5,1950 at Allendale. She was born February 20, 1926. He is Associate Professor, Western Reserve U.N., Cleveland, Ohio. She is a teacher with an A.B. M.A. He belongs to Rotary Club, Methodist Church, and the M.E.A.-N.E.A.-O.E.A. He was in World Was II engineers from November 14, 1944 to 1946. Stayed in the Reserves and is now a Captain in the Engineers, Active Reserves. They have two children.
          1. DEAN J. SHERIDAN (2476), born Lansing, Michigan, April 2,1953. Married August 8, 1976 to Karen Mell (3548), she was born December 2, 1955.
          2. SUSAN GAY (SHERIDAN) WHITTEN (2477), born at Vicksburg, Michigan, August 14, 1955. She married Gregor Fogg Whitten (3549) on December 28, 1974, he was born June 13, 1952.
        3. HAROLD DALE SHERIDAN (1382), of Coopersville, Mich. was born August 19, 1928, at Allendale, Michigan. He attended Coopersville High School, Michigan State, B.S., D.V.M. He was 1st Lieut, Medical Corp U.S. Army. Served July 1953 to August 1955 Overseas France. He married Vera DeYoung (2478), February 15, 1957 at Grand Rapids, Michigan. Vera was born June 25,1931. He is a veterinarian. She is an office worker. He is President of Coopersville Club; President of Michigan Ass'n of Profession Dural Products, Inc.; Trustee and Treasurer of Allendale Methodist Church; President of American Veterinary Association of Coopersville. Michigan, Director of Chamber of Commerce. They have three children.
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          1. KURT DUANE SHERIDAN (2479), born February 19, 1958.
          2. JILL LYNN SHERIDAN (2480), born August 28, 1968.
          3. TODD ALAN SHERIDAN (3550), born March 13, 1966.
        4. DARRELL FRANKLIN SHERIDAN (1383), of Allendale, Michigan was born March 11, 1930 at Allendale, Michigan. He attended school at Coopersville, Michigan, Calvin College, B.S., Michigan State, M.A. He married Shirley Snyder (2481) A ugust 20, 1955 at Allendale, Michigan. She was born June 20,1932. He is a teacher. She is an office worker. He belongs to M.E.A. and N.E.A. They belong to Allendale Wesleyan Methodist Church. He is Director of Credit Union. They have four children.
          1. TIMOTHY DALE SHERIDAN (2482), born July 17, 1956.
          2. FREDA BETH (SHERIDAN) LERMAN (2483), born May 5, 1958. Married July 26, 1980 to Steven Alan Lerman (3551).
          3. GREGG MARLIN SHERIDAN (2484), born March 11, 1960. Married July 10, 1981 to Amy Jo Alderton (3552) daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Carl Alderton of Dorr, MI.
          4. LISA MARIE SHERIDAN (2485), born March 11, 1960. Died December 8, 1975.
        5. SHARON ALMIRA (SHERIDAN) CONELY (1384), of 715 Davis St., Kalamazoo, Michigan was born December 14, 1939 at Allendale, Michigan. She attended Hudsonville High School, Grand Rapids Junior College, received B.S. from Western Michigan University working on M.A. She belongs to the Lambda, Tau Omega Sorority, The Methodist Church, and National Education Association, Michigan Education Association. She married Rex D. Conely (2486) July 8, 1961 at Allendale. He was born December 10, 1935. He is assistant cashier at Bank in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
          1. ROGER DALE CONELY (3553), born April 9, 1964.
          2. JAMES SHERIDAN CONELY (3554), born May 18,1967.
          3. BRUCE THAYER CONELY (3555), born July 8, 1973.
      5. TERENCE SHERIDAN (98), was born December 12, 1893 at Allendale. He attended Blakeney School and Allendale High School. He married Mabel Blakeney (1385), November 7,1914 at Allendale. He was a plasterer and a farmer, spending most of the time in Allendale and the Conklin Area. His wife was a housewife and after his death, she became a Practical Nurse. He passed away January 26, 1946, and Mabel passed away August 22, 1962 is buried at Allendale. They had ten children.
        1. LESLIE MAXFIELD SHERIDAN (1386), of Box 21, Eaton Rapids, Michigan was born June 10, 1915 at Allendale. He attended Blakeney School and Allendale High. He married Lucille Barrett (2487), April 21,1935. He is a salesman for the Co-op and she is a Secretary. They have one child.
          1. THOMAS LESLIE SHERIDAN (2488), born May 26, 1937.
        2. NORMA (SHERIDAN ) DOANE (1387), of Conklin, Michigan was born September 10, 1916 at Allendale. She attended Blakeney School and Comstock High School. She married Kenneth Doane (2489), October 20, 1936 at Allendale. She is a housewife, and he was employed in Holland. They have three children. Kenneth passed away December 1989.
          1. KARRIN DOANE (2490), was born May 25, 1938. She is married and lives in Oregon.
          2. KEAN DOANE (2491), was born October 14, 1942.
          3. KEVIN DOANE (2492), was born May 2, 1945
        3. LEON BOSWORTH SHERIDAN (1388), of Conklin was born May 21,1917. He attended the Tuttle School and Ravenna High School. He married Flora F McNitt (2493) April 23, 1943 at Conklin. They both are in the Air Control at Coopersville. He fought in World War II. They have five children.
          1. LELAND G. SHERIDAN (2494), born February 29, 1944.
          2. TERENCE A. SHERIDAN (2495), born July 15, 1945.
          3. RUTH ANN SHERIDAN (2496), born March 6, 1947.
          4. CLAUDIA LEE SHERIDAN (2497), born June 23, 1950.
          5. COLLEEN SUE SHERIDAN (2498), born August 19, 1953.
        4. CECILE RUTH (SHERIDAN) POWELL (1389), of Rockfor was born December 9, 1918 in Georgetown. She attended Tuttle School and Ravenna High School. She married Gabriel Powell (2499), February 28,1948. She is a housewife and he is a carpenter. They have three children.
          1. MARY RUTH POWELL (2500), born November 15, 1950.
          2. PEGGY ANN POWELL (2501), born June 29, 1953.
          3. NELLIE BELLE POWELL (2502), born July 25, 1958.
        5. MARLIN JAMES SHERIDAN (1390), of Conklin was born April 30, 1920. He attended the Tuttle School and Ravenna High School. He married Eva Regina Wiltenburg (2503), March 29, 1943 at Conklin. He is a plasterer and is Treasurer of the Township. He fought in WW. II. She is a housewife. They have five children.
          1. DENNIS JAMES SHERIDAN (2404), born July 7, 1944. Married Carol L. Seaman (3044) of Grand Rapids in 1964.
          2. NELVA JEAN SHERIDAN (2505), born June 22, 1946.
          3. MICHAEL MARLIN SHERIDAN (2506), born August 26, 1949.
          4. DWIGHT JOHN SHERIDAN (2507), born August 25, 1951.
          5. ANTON TERRENCE SHERIDAN (2508), born March 19, 1955.
        6. FLORENCE EDITH (SHERIDAN) KREY (1391) of Conklin was born June 19, 1921. She attended Tuttle Grade School, Ravenna High School and Central Michigan College at Mt Pleasant. She married Gilbert Krey (2509) of Conklin, November 11, 1944. He is a farmer and she is a schoolteacher. They have three children.
          1. DAVID ROBERT KREY (2510), born November 10, 1945.
          2. TIMOTHY CARL KREY (2511), born June 1, 1949.
          3. MARIETTA JOYCE KREY (2512), born December 16, 1950.
        7. ROSEMARY (SHERIDAN) SMITH (1392), living near Manton was born September 8, 1922. She attended Tuttle Grade School and Ravenna High School. She married Elwin Smith (2513) September 8, 1944. She is a housewife and he is a Methodist Minister. They have five children.
          1. ROSALIE JANE SMITH (2514), born October 25, 1945.
          2. ARLIE VIRGIL SMITH (2515), born May 23, 1947.
          3. EUGENE WESLEY SMITH (2516), born November 11, 1948.
          4. LESLIE ARVID SMITH (2517), born November 24, 1951.
          5. SARAH ANN SMITH (2518), born February 1, 1958,
        8. ALTA MAE (SHERIDAN) TINDLE (1393), of 165 Orchard Dr, Sparta, was born April 5, 1924 at Georgetown. She attended Tuttle and Allendale High School. She married Donald Tindle (2519). She is a housewife and he is a repairman. They have three children.
          1. STEPHEN TINDLE (2520), born December 30, 1945.
          2. MELINDA TINDLE (2521), born February 15, 1949.
          3. BRIAN TINDLE (2522), born January 17, 1954.
        9. MARY (SHERIDAN) TROYER (1394), was born June 25,1925. She married Glen Troyer (2523), May 23, 1953. She is a nurse at Ferguson's. He is a Minister,(travels).
        10. HARLEIGH TERENCE SHERIDAN (1395), of Conklin was born August 16, 1926. He married Dorothy Marie Mengel (2524), May 21, 1947. He is a Salesman and she is a housewife. They have four children.
          1. VALORIE MAE SHERIDAN (2525), born September 9, 1949.
          2. TERENCE RYAN SHERIDAN (2526), born April 9,1951.
          3. TARA AILEEN SHERIDAN (2527), born September 4, 1952.
          4. CECILE ARLEEN SHERIDAN (2528), born December 12, 1957.
      6. BEATRICE SUSAN (SHERIDAN) PARISH (99), was born November 16, 1896. She attended Blakeney School and Allendale High School. She married Newton W. Parish (1396), June 30, 1919 at Allendale, Michigan. He is the Distribution Clerk of the Post Office at Coopersville. She is a telephone operator. He served the U.S. Airforce in World War I and is now Commander of Coopersville Post 308 American Legion, is a member of AFL-CIO Union Postal Clerks. She is past president of the 5th Dist Am Legion Auxiliary. They have four children. Beatrice passed May 26,1988.
        1. MORRIS EDMUND PARISH (1397), of Coopersville, Michigan, was born July 18, 1920 at Allendale. He married Frances Ribesky (2529), May 4,1946, at Muskegon, Michigan. He is Postmaster at Coopersville. He has been Commander of Post 308 Am. Legion, belongs to 40-8, is on the board of Ottawa Co. Soldiers and Sailors Relief committee. Also on the Board of Crippled Children Relief. He was in the Naval Air Force, Lt.Jr. Grade. Served three years at Pensacola Base as Instructor. She does secretarial work. They have two children.
          1. CONSTANCE ANN PARISH (2530), born January 15,1952.
          2. JEFFREY JOHN PARISH (2531), born June 9,1953.
        2. LORRAINE E. (PARISH) ROSIN (1398), of Grand Haven was born November 19, 1921 at Allendale, Ottawa Co. She married Herman Rosin (2532) at Coopersville November 30,1939. He is Set-up Superintendent at Grand Haven. He is a Union Member. She is a housewife. They have four children.
          1. RAYMOND ROY ROSIN (2533), born March 24, 1942.
          2. RONALD ROGER ROSIN (2534), born March 23, 1943.
          3. JO ANN ROSIN (2535), born April 24, 1944.
          4. LORA SUE (ROSIN) (REED) BURNHAM (2536), born August 26, 1945. Married Richard Reed , September 21, 1963. Second marriage to Lyle Burnham (2557) on June 30, 1966. Lyle passed away July 21, 1967
            1. ROBIN RAE REED (2557), born December 8, 1963.
        3. GENEVA MARIE (PARISH) BARBRICK (1399), of Coopersville was born January 18, 1925 at Coopersville, Michigan. She attended Coopersville Schools and married Philip Barbrick. (2537) He is Assistant Post Master at CoopersviIle. He was a Bomber Pilot in the Air Force, and made 40 missions or more over Europe in WW II. He is a member of Raymond Rankin Unit 308 American Legion at Coopersville, and was Commander of the Post. He is a member of the AFL-CIO union. She is a housewife. They have nine children. Philip passed on June 24,1983 and was buried in the Allendale Cemetery.
          1. LINDA FRANCIS BARBRICK (2538), born September 28, 1943. She is taking nurses training.
          2. PHILIP CRAIG BARBRICK (2539), born May 7, 1945.
          3. ROGER ALLYN BARBRICK (2540), born October 23, 1946.
          4. RONALD MERLE BARBRICK (2541), born December 4,1947.
          5. PAMELA KAY BARBRICK (2542), born January 29, 1949.
          6. DAVID ROSS BARBRICK (2543), born February 4, 1951.
          7. CAROL JEAN BARBRICK (2544), born July 20, 1952.
          8. SHERRIN GAYLE BARBRICK (2545), born November 11, 1953.
          9. MARK STEVEN BARBARICK (2546), born December 17, 1954.
        4. MERLYN J. PARISH (1400), of Chicago, Illinois was born June 12, 1933, at Coopersville, Michigan. He attended school in Coopersville, Michigan. He was in the Korean Conflict in the Signal Corps. Was overseas 15 months. He is a member of Raymond Rankin Post 308 of Coopersville.
      7. BERENICE J. (SHERIDAN) PARISH (100), was born November 16, 1896, in Allendale Township. She attended Blakeney School and Allendale High School. She married Erwin Parish (1401), April 16,1919 at Allendale. They moved to a farm in Coopersville, where they do a truck garden business in summer and spend the winters in Florida. Berenice had many of the thoughtful traits of her Grand mother, Mary Lowing Bosworth, and will long be remembered for her nursing, and her kindness that she gave to her family and neighbors in time of need. She died December 24, 1951 and is buried in Allendale Cemetery. They had three children.
        1. MARIANN (PARISH) BAILEY (1402) was born at Allendale, December 28, 1922. She is an IBM operator. She married Robert Bailey (2547) in Cook County, Illinois. He is an electrical engineer. He was in W.W.II. They live at 10524 Rowland Ave., Tacoma 99, Washington. They have no children.
        2. BERNICE ARLENE (PARISH) FRAZIER (1403), of Coopersville, was born December 28, 1922. She attended Coopersville High School and Hunter College, New York. She joined the Marine Corp in W.W.II where she met and married Woodrow Frazier (2548), April 22, 1944. They are members of the Methodist Church and American Legion at Coopersville. They are both in the Decorating Business, owning a paint supply store. They have three children.
          1. JANET ELLER FRAZIER (2549), born May 4, 1945.
          2. LON WELLS FRAZIER (2550), born April 25, 1949.
          3. ROBERT ALLEN FRAZIER (2551), born March 1951.
        3. BEATRICE ARLOA PARISH (1404), the twin sister of Berenice Arlene was born December 28, 1922. She died January 18, 1923.
      8. JOHN T. SHERIDAN, (101) was born in Allendale, September 22, 1901. He married Edna Reister (2552) , April 11, 1925 at the Lutheran Parsonage in Blendon Township. John became a plastering contractor, and his wife Edna taught school for many years in Allendale Township. They have four children. John passed away September 21,1963, buried in Allendale Cemetery. Edna Reister Sheridan Behrens, passed away January 13, 1976
        1. DONALD EUGENE SHERIDAN (2553), was born January 10, 1926 in Allendale, Michigan. He served in World War 11 as a U.S. Navy Signalman 3rd Class. He married Ione Johnson (2557) in Blendon Twp., May 27,1949. He is employed at the office at Reynolds Metal. They live in Zeeland, Michigan. They have three children
          1. LARRY EUGENE SHERIDAN (2558), born April 20, 1951.
          2. BETH MARIE SHERIDAN (2559), born January 30, 1955.
          3. MARY JO SHERIDAN (2560), born May 5, 1959.
        2. ROBERT DUANE SHERIDAN (2554), was born July 11, 1927, at Allendale, Michigan. He served in the Merchant Marines 1945-1946 and in the 11th Airborne Division of the Army 1946-1948. He is now a Rural Mail Carrier. He married Betty E. Barding (2561), November 25, 1950 at Holland, Michigan. She is a beautician and housewife. They have four children. They live at 6246 Warner SL, Allendale, Michigan.
          1. TERRI LYNN SHERIDAN (2562), born August 12, 1951.
          2. KATHI RAE SHERIDAN (2563), born June 5, 1954.
          3. JEFFREY ROBERT SHERIDAN (2564), born August 29, 1958. Married to Jane Marie Danenberg (3561), daughter of Mr. & Mrs. James R Danenberg, on May 26, 1978.
          4. KRISTI KAE SHERIDAN (2565), born August 26, 1959.
          5. JOHN EVERETT SHERIDAN (3560), born February 16, 1962.
        3. DONNA JEAN (SHERIDAN) LAUG (2555), was born July 4, 1929 at Allendale, Michigan. She became a teacher. She married Melborne Laug (2566), April 14, 1951 at Holland, Michigan. He served in the U.S. Navy four years during the Korean War. He is now a salesman for Standard Oil. They have two children.
          1. LINDA LOU LAUG (3567), born April 23, 1955.
          2. KURTIS ALAN LAUG (3568), born February 25, 1960.
        4. SHIRLEY EDNA (SHERIDAN) RALYA (2556), was born August 8, 1934 at Allendale, Michigan. After graduation she became a saleslady. She married Earl Ralya (2569), August 15, 1952 at Allendale, Michigan. He is a car salesman. They live at Grand Haven, RR 2. They have four children
          1. MARK WILLIAM RALYA (2570), born July 9, 1953.
          2. CYNTHIA JO RALYA (2571), born March 3, 1955.
          3. SANDRA KAY RALYA (2572), born March 1, 1956.
          4. TIM GLEN RALYA (2573), born December 19, 1959.
      9. NELLIE E. (SHERIDAN) SHOEMAKER (1373), of 506 Maumee, Jonesville, Michigan was born at Allendale, Michigan, September 22, 1901. She attended Blakeney Allendale and Grandville Schools, Western State University and for several years taught school. She married Wayne N. Shoemaker (3574), September 1, 1923 at Allendale, Michigan. He was a School Superintendent, she a housewife. Th ey attended the Methodist Church, belonged to Culture Club, Local and National PTA. and she is a member of the Eastern Star of the O.E.S. They have four children. Wayne died October 20, 1987 and was buried in the Grandville Cemetery.
        1. ROGER ALAN SHOEMAKER (2575), of Schoolcraft, Michigan was born August 25, 1927, at Coopersville. He is a Probation Officer in Kalamazoo County. He was in the U.S. Navy Air Force 1945-46. He married Dorothy Smith Thornton (2579), May 31, 1952 at Kalamazoo. They have three children.
          1. LOU ANN THORNTON (2580), born November 1950.
          2. LINDA GAIL SHOEMAKER (2581), born January 24, 1953.
          3. HOLLY LEIGH SHOEMAKER (2582), born December 18, 1956.
        2. PHILLIP C. SHOEMAKER (2576), of 3361 Golden Ave., San Bernardino, California was born May 28, 1930 at Coopersville, Michigan. He married S. Fern Stafford (2583), April 14, 1951 at Riverside, California. He was in the U.S. Air Force, July 1948 O.T.C., graduated in June 1953. Discharged August 1953. He is Supervisor of the Californian Bell Telephone Co. They have four children.
          1. TERRY LYNN SHOEMAKER (2584), born January 25, 1952
          2. GREGORY WAYNE SHOEMAKER (2585), born April 2, 1954.
          3. JEFFRY SHOEMAKER (2586), born October 13, 1957.
          4. DAVID CRAIG SHOEMAKER (3045), born November 17, 1962.
        3. SUZANNE (SHOEMAKER) DONNELY (2577), of 1840 Cordova, Pomona, California, Apt 1 was born at Coopersville, July 17, 1937. She attended Michigan State University and graduated 1959. She is now a Business Education Instructor. She married Jack Donnely, December 1961.
        4. DAVID CLAY SHOEMAKER (2578), youngest son of Nellie and Wayne Shoemaker was born January 9, 1944 at Coopersville, Michigan. He graduated from Jonesville High School in 1961
    10. ABE L. BOSWORTH (89) was born in Georgetown, December 1, 1863. He attended Canada Hill School. He assisted on his father's farm until his marriage to Mattie Whittiers (1406), when they moved to a farm that now adjoins Hager Hardwood Forest Park, where they lived until his death, April 4, 1898, at the age of 35. They had two children, Maude and Frank Bosworth. After his death Mattie married Marvin Young (See Isaac Lowing Family) and moved to Scottville, where Maude and Frank grew to maturity.
      1. MAUDE EDYTHE (BOSWORTH) BLETH (1405), was born November 26, 1892 at Georgetown, Michigan. She attended Scottville High School and Kalamazoo College, where she received a B.A. in 1918. She taught school and was a High School Principal. She married Peter F Bleth (2587), December 18, 1925 at Ishpeming, Michigan. He was a railroad conductor, and they reside at Great Falls, Montana. They have one child.
        1. GORDON RALPH BLETH (2588), was born August 27 at Great Falls, Montana. He attended Great Falls Schools, the College of Education of Great Falls, Pomona College at Claremont, Calif. He was in the Navy from June 1945 to July 1946. He is a printer and is not married.
      2. EDWARD FRANKLIN BOSWORTH (1407), was born February 4, 1895 at Georgetown. He attended East Riverton School, and Ludington Business College. He was a farmer and merchant He married Olive Catherine Cory (2589), January 31, 1917 at Custer, Mason Co., Michigan. He passed away January 30,1960 and is buried in Brookside Cemetery. They had three children.
        1. LOIS EVELYN (BOSWORTH) BOCKSTANZ (2590), of 1319 Applecroft Ave., Kalamazoo, Michigan, was born March 22,1918 in Mason Co. She attended Scottville Schools. She married Louis Bockstanz (2593), August 14, 1938 at Scottville. He is City Editor of the Kalamazoo Gazette, and she is Secretary at Portage School. They are active in the Methodist Church and School activities. They have three children.
          1. DOUGLAS LEE BOCKSTANZ (2594), born July 4, 1941.
          2. DAV ID LOUIS BOCKSTANZ (2595), born October 17, 1942.
          3. DELYNNE KAY BOCKSTANZ (2596), born June 30, 1945.
        2. CAROL THELMA (BOSWORTH) BOCKSTANZ (2591), of 23115 Olmstead St., Dearborn, Michigan was born December 25, 1919 at Mason Co. She attended Scottville Schools, and became a nurse at Bronson Hospital. She married Glenn Bockstanz (2597), January 1, 1942, at Scottville. He is a teacher of Industrial Arts at Dearborn. They attend the Methodist Church and all school activities. They have three children.
          1. BRADFORD JAY BOCKSTANZ (2598), born March 5,1951.
          2. FRANKLIN LOUIS BOCKSTANZ (2599), born May 4, 1953.
          3. DREW ALAN BOCKSTANZ (2600), born December 9, 1959.
        3. ELDONNA (BOSWORTH) FERRIS (2592), 210 E. State S., Scottville, Michigan, was born March 5, 1922 in Mason Co. She attended Scottville Schools and married Marion Russell Ferris (2601), January 1, 1942 at Scottville. He is cashier at Scottville State Savings Bank, and she clerks and is a housewife. They attend Methodist Church and all school activities. They have three children. Marion Russell passed away August 19, 1964. Eldonna remarried Donald Adams, June 24, 1967.
          1. SUSAN BETH FERRIS (2602), born August 9, 1944.
          2. BRIAN RUSSELL FERRIS (2603), born September 10, 1949.
          3. JILL LOUISE FERRIS (2604), born May 29, 1951.
    11. GERTRUDE (BOSWORTH) GILLETT (90), the youngest child of Mary Lowing Bosworth and E. Franklin Bosworth was born at Georgetown, Ma rch 30, 1866. She attended the Canada Hill School, Grandville, and a Normal School at Grand Rapids. She taught Blendon, West Olive, and a School in Walker Township that was predominantly Catholic. She was married to Elmer Gillett (1408), October 16, 1887 at the family home. They moved to the farm home southeast of Bauer, which he farmed for many years and where all the children were born. In 1922, he retired from the farm and moved to Hudsonville. After his death February 24, 1929, she gave up the village home and spent her remaining years living with her children. She died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ford Leatherman, January 11, 1949. Both are buried in Georgetown Cemetery. They had 10 children.
      1. FRANK M. GILLETT (1409), the oldest son of Gertrude and Elmer Gillett was born in Georgetown Township, September 13, 1 33. He attended Canada Hill School and Grandville High School. He married Mabel Ide of Grandville in 1910. He was a motorman, and a mover of houses, and household goods. He lived in Grand Rapids for years. He died November 18, 1955, and is buried in Georgetown Cemetery. He had four children.
        1. RAULIN E. GILLETT (1420), the oldest son of Frank and Mabel Gillett was born December 29, 1910 at Grandville, Michigan. He attended Union High School in Grand Rapids, Junior College at Grand Rapids and Olivet Nazarene College, Kankakee, Illinois. He married Dorothy E. Brown, May 18, 1934. They live at 5810 Woodheath Dr., Fort Wayne, Ind. He does construction work, is an Elder in Nazarene Church, does work as a Pastor, working to found churches. He taught in High Schools and Colleges. His wife cooks in the school cafeteria. They have six children.
          1. DELORES MAY (GILLETT) SCHULTZ (2606), born April 2, 1936. She attended Ridgeville High School, Ind. She married Neil Schultz (2607), January 1956. He works for the Case Tractor Proving Dept. They are members of Kendallville, Ind. Church of Nazarene. He was in the Army of Occupation in Germany. They have four children.
            1. DAVID LEE SCHULTZ, born 1956.
            2. CHERYL LINN SCHULTZ, born 1958.
            3. MARK ALLEN SCHULTZ, born 1960.
            4. DOUGLAS SCHULTZ, born April 26, 1963
          2. DAVID FRANK GILLETT (2608), was born April 11, 1938, at Olivet, Illinois. He attended Kendallville High School, Ind. and Olivet Nazarene College, Kankakee, Illinois. He married Judy DuGuid (2616), September 1960. He is an IBM operator and she is a secretary in Central Soya. He is active in Nazarene Church at Fort Wayne. They live at 3501 Webster St., Fort Wayne, Ind.
            1. STEVE GILLETT, born May 2, 1961
            2. GAYLE GILLETT, born October 3, 1964.
          3. MARIE M. (GILLETT) MOUNSEY (2609), was born March 28, 1940 at Grandville, Michigan. She attended Montpelier High School, Ind. She married Thomas Mounsey (2617), May 1958 at Montpelier, Ind. He works for General Motors, at Marion, Ind. She is with the Rubber Co., Montpelier, Ind. They are active in Young Peoples work in the church. They have one child.
            1. LINDA MARIE MOUNSEY (2618), born December 1958.
            2. GREG MOUNSEY, born February 1962
          4. MARIAM (GILLETT) GOODHEW (2610), is the twin sister of Marie, and was born at Grandville, Michigan, March 28, 1940. She attended Montpelier High School, Ind. She married Robert E. Goodhew, February 1959, and they live at 616 N. Martha St., Angola, Ind. He is in the office of a Mold Co., at Fremont, Indiana. They are members of Angola Nazarene Church. They have two children. He served in the Marines in Japan.
            1. JUDY ANN GOODHEW (2620), born in 1959 at Winchester, Ind.
            2. JAMES ROBERT GOODHEW (2621), born in 1960 at Angol a, Ind.
            3. JANICE GOODHEW, born November 7, 1965.
          5. ALICE F (GILLETT) ZUERCHER (2611), was born at Geneva, Ind. Jan 11, 1943. Married Herbert Zuercher in Olivet, Illinois.
            1. KIRK ZUERCHER, born April 30, 1968
          6. DOROTHY RAULINE GILLETT (2612), was born August 29, 1950, Decatur, Ind.
        2. RAYMOND GILLETT (1421), the second child of Frank and Mabel Ide Gillett, was born July 29, 1913 at Grand Rapids, Mich. He attended Union High School, he married Geraldine Cuson, March 21,1936 at Grand Rapids. He is a machinist at Jarecki Corp. They live at 2122 Edgewood NE, Grand Rapids. They have one child
          1. RYAN GILLETT (2623), was born November 27,1936 at Grand Rapids. He graduated from High School He married Barbara June VanDerMeer, January 25, 1958. He works for Country Fresh Dairy. He was in the U.S. Navy for 3 years. They have four children. They live at 1450 50th St. SW, Grandville.
            1. MICHAEL EDWARD GILLETT (2625), born March 9, 1960.
            2. MARK GILLETT, born February 9, 1962.
            3. CHERYL GILLETT, born October 8, 1965.
            4. MICHELLE GILLETT, born October 8,1967
        3. ELSIE (GILLETT) EVANS (1422), born November 26, 1914, at Grand Rapids, Michigan. She attended Union High School. She married Earl D. Evans (2626), July 8, 1933 at Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is a welder at Kelvinator, and she is employed by Hekman Biscuit Co. They belong to the Nazarene Church. They have one son
          1. FRED EVANS (2627), born June 23, 1937, at Grand Rapids, Michigan. He graduated from Kelloggsville High School. He married Bonnie Goorhouse (2628), August 25,1958. They have two children.
            1. ROBIN LYNN EVANS (2629), born April 25, 1960.
            2. FREDERICK EVANS, born March 30, 1964.
        4. DORIS (GILLETT) (CLAUSON) BREASE (1423), the fourth child of Frank and Mabel Ide Gillett was born May 18, 1916 at Grand Rapids. She attended Union High School. She married Robert Clauson (2630), December 5, 1936, at Grand Rapids, Mich. They had one child, Roma Clauson. They were divorced in 1940, and she married Phillip Brease (2633), April 4, 1941. He is a Mail Carrier. They live at 2848 Byron Center Rd. SW Grand Rapids, Michigan. They have one child.
          1. ROMA (CLAUSON) (VAN ALLER) HARRIS (2631), was born August 21, 1937. She was married to LeRoy Van Aller (2632), February 3, 1954 at Grand Rapids. They live at 2108 Wyoming Ave. SW, Grand Rapids, Michigan. They have three children. Second marriage to Sidney Harris, 1961.
            1. CHERYL LEE VAN ALLER (2625), born October 4, 1954.
            2. KATHLEEN KAY VAN ALLER (2626), born January 20, 1956.
            3. BRIAN LEE VAN ALLER (2637), born May 12, 1957.
            4. CARL HARRIS, born September 2 0, 1962.
            5. JAMES HARRIS, born October 29, 1966.
            6. PAUL HARRIS, born October 29, 1966.
          2. PHILLIP BREASE, JR (2634)., was born February 15, 1949. Married Anna Halben, 1970
      2. FORREST L. GILLETT (1410), the second child of Gertrude and Elmer Gillett was born April 9, 1890 at Georgetown, Mich. He attended Canada Hill School. He married Adeline Bachman (1424), March 19, 1912. He worked for the Pere Marquette and later the C&O Railway at the Freight office. He is now retired. She is a housewife and caters for church dinners. They have eight children. They lived at 1206 40th St SW, Grand Rapids. Forrest passed away at age 82, December 18, 1972. Adeline passed away June 30, 1976.
        1. LUCILLE E. (GILLETT) HARKER (1425), was born F ebruary 17, 1914, at Grand Rapids, Mich. She attended Godfrey-Lee School. She married Fred Harker (2638), July 17,1933, at Grand Rapids. He is a Metal Rep. of Kelvinator of Grand Rapids. They attend Grandville-Jenison Congregational Church. They have two children. Fred passed away at age 62 on March 12, 1974. Buried Rosedale Memorial Park.
          1. BONNIE LOU (HARKER) CANE (2639), was born February 13, 1936 at Grand Rapids, Mich. She is a graduate of Grandville High School. She married Robert Cane (2641), October 25, 1957 at Grandville. Attend Grandville-Jenison Congregational Church. They have three children.
            1. SCOTT RANDALL GAME (2642), born January 17, 1960.
            2. LAURA LYNN CANE (2643), born July 10, 1961.
            3. LISA RENEE CANE (3578), born April 25, 1966.
          2. MARCIA LYNN (HARKER) (VAN KAMPEN) TIFT (2640), born June 1944. Marcia married Floyd VanKampen (2644) after attending Grandville High School. They have three children. Remarried Dec 3, 1983 to Richard Tift (3579).
            1. KATHY LOU VAN KAMPEN (2645), born January 13, 1962. Husband (3582)
              1. KELLY CARRIER (3583), born April 24, 1987.
              2. ERIN ELIZABETH CARRIER (3584), born Dec 28, 1990.
            2. MICHAEL WILLIAM VAN KAMPEN (3580), born May 5, 1963. Married March 21, 1987. Spouse (3585)
              1. BRIAN WILLIAM VAN KAMPEN (3586), born Oct 21, 1989.
            3. JEFFERY VAN KAMPEN (3581), born December 1, 1966. Passed away August 29, 1988.
        2. HAROLD GILLETT (1426), of 4665 Alpine NW, Comstock, Grand Rapids, was born January 6, 1917 at Jenison, Mich. He attended Lee High School and took wood carving at Davis Tech He married Lavonne Wellman (2646), October 1, 1940, at Grand Rapids, Mich. They attend Baptist Church He is a woodcarver at a Furniture Factory. They have four children.
          1. GLORIA (GILLETT) DE JONGE (2647), born April 23, 1946. Married Richard Dejonge (3587).
            1. JULIA DE JONGE (3588), born January 20, 1969.
            2. JANELL DE JONGE (3589), born January 20, 1969.
          2. MARK GILLETT (2648), born December 25, 1947.
          3. GARY DALE GILLETT (2649), born April 21, 1949.
          4. FAITH JOYCE GILLETT (2650), born August 7, 1955.
        3. BERTIELE (GILLETT) LAWTON (1427), of 1630 36th St SW, Grand Rapids, was born December 30, 1918, at Georgetown. She graduated from Lee High School. She married Robert Lawton (2651), February 24,1939, at Grand Rapids, Mich. He is an electrician at Doehler-Jarvis. They attend the United Brethren Church. They have four children.
          1. SALLY (LAWTON) MALLOY (2652), born June 5, 1940. Married Patrick Malloy (3590), August 4,1962.
            1. DEBRAH ANNE MALLOY ((3591), born November 11, 1963.
            2. LINDA KAY (MALLOY) SMITH (3592), born January 20, 1966. Married May 6, 1990 to Andrew Smith (3594)
            3. SANDRA (MALLOY) MELCHAR (3593), born March 3,1967. Married February 14, 1987 to Larry Melchar (3595).
              1. JONATHAN MELCHAR (3596), born September 1, 1990.
          2. DOUGLAS LAWTON (2653), born May 29,1944
          3. JEFFREY LAWTON (2654), born August 14, 1946.
          4. SUSAN LAWTON (2655), born May 6,1951.
        4. KENNETH GILLETT (1428), of 29720 Old Bedford, Farmington, Michigan was born September 5,1921, at Jenison, Michigan. He attended Lee School. He married Lillian Johnson (2654) in 1958, at Detroit, Mich. They attend the Methodist Church He was a pharmacist mate 1st Class in the Navy for three and one-half years, during W.W.II. He is now in the Styling Division of General Motors
          1. RANDY GILLETT (3597),
        5. BARBARA (GILLETT) DEBOER (1429), of 19517 Blythe St., Resida, CA, was born October 21, 1922 at Jenison, MI. She attended Lee School, and married Charles DeBoer (2657) in 1939 at Grand Rapids. He is a crane operator at General Motors. She is in the Drapery Business. They attend Plymouth Congregational Church. They have three children.
          1. JOAN (DEBOER) MOLAG (2658), of Resida, CA, was born February 1941. She attended Kelloggsville School, Grand Rapids. She married Roger Molag (2659) at Grand Rapids. They have three children.
            1. SCOTT MOLAG (2660)
            2. TERRY MOLAG (2661)
            3. TOD MOLAG (3598), born July 23, 1964.
          2. CHARLES DE BOER, JR. (2599), born July 1, 1943.
          3. THOMAS LYNN DE BOER (3600), born April 18, 1947. Married Wendy Garworth (3601), 1969.
        6. JUNE (GILLETT) NOWLAND (1430), of 19523 Saticoy St., Resida, CA, was born June 7, 1925 at Jenison, MI. She attended Godfrey-Lee School. She married Monte R. Nowland (2662), March 9, 1945 at Grand Rapids, Mich. He is employed in the office of Riker Laboratories. She is an Electronic Tech at Litton Systems Inc. They have two children
          1. MONTE R. NOWLAND, JR (2663), born January 4, 1946. Married Kim (3602), January 4, 1946.
            1. ELISSA NOWLAND (3603),
            2. JASON NOWLAND (3604), born January 24, 1968.
          2. DENNIS SCOTT NOWLAND (2664), born August 23, 1947.
        7. ROBERT L. GILLETT (1431), of 4321 Henderschott Rd of Grand Rapids, was born August 23, 1927. He attended Godrfey-Lee, Jr. College, and Wayne University Law School. He married Ruth Crips (2665), October 22, 1947, at Grand Rapids. He was in the Navy in the South Pacific, W.W.II, for two years. He is an attorney. They have two children
          1. GAIL GILLE TT (2666), born September 12, 1956.
          2. MARK FORREST GILLETT (2667), born July 29, 1959.
        8. ROGER GILLETT (1432), of 1700 N. Santa Anita, Arcadia, CA, was born January 16, 1936, at Grand Rapids, MI. He is a graduate of Godfrey-Lee. Roger is an architect. He is married ???????, Michigan. She attended Scottville High School and Kalamazoo College.
      3. HOWARD E. GILLETT (1411), of 4310 Barry St., Hudsonville, MI was born in Georgetown Township, November 26, 1891. He attended Canada Hill School. He was a Veteran of World War I., serving in the Machine Gun Corp., 14th Cavalry. He was a fireman in the city of Grand Rapids until his retirement. He is now a farmer. He married Clara Boldt (1433), September 11, 1920. He belongs to Georgetown Grange, Metropolitan Club-- Spirit #2. They have three children. Howard passed away July 1971. Clara passed away February 1987.
        1. CLAYTON H. GILLETT (1434), lives at 1629 Philadelphia Ave. SE, Grand Rapids, MI., was born October 16,1921. He attended Ottawa Hills Schools. He married Clarissa Dykstra (2668), June 20,1947 at Grand Rapids, MI. He is a Veteran of World War II. He is Supervisor at Western Electric. They have three children. Clayton passed away at age 51 on August 24, 1973. Buried in Graceland Memorial Park, Grand Rapids.
          1. VICTOR C. GILLETT (2669), born March 14, 1949.
          2. DENNIS LEE GILLETT (2670), born January 31, 1952. Married Kathleen Dinger (3605), July 29, 1972. She was born April 26, 1954 the daughter of Robert and Beatrice Dinger.
            1. SHEILA ANN GILLETT (3606), born May 21, 1974.
          3. KIRK ALLEN GILLETT (2671), born November 7,1959.
        2. ARLEEN (GILLETT) SMITH (1435), of Rt #4, Box 10, Boone N.C. was born March 17, 1924 at Grand Rapids, Mich. She attended Ottawa Hills, Grand Rapids. She married LeBrun N. Smith (2672), August 23, 1949 at Baton Rouge, LA. He is a Professor of Geology at State College, Boone, NC. He is also a surveyor. She is a housewife and Medical Technician. They have two children.
          1. MICHAEL LEBRUN SMITH (2673), born April 4, 1951.
          2. NANCY AUGUSTA SMITH (2674), born November 4, 1957.
        3. LEON E. GILLETT (1436), of 1124 Merritt St. SE, Grand Rapids, was born March 13, 1929 at Grand Rapids. He attended Ottawa Hills. He married Aurefia Ann Matteson (2675), December 31, 1948 at Grand Rapids, MI. He works for the Michigan Bell Telephone Co. P B.X. Repair. They have three children.
          1. RAYLEE (GILLETT) NELSON (2676), born January 26, 1951. Married Bruce Nelson (3607), in 1970.
            1. SARA LINDA NELSON (3608), born December 15, 1971
            2. BRAD CHRISTOPHER NELSON (3609), born April 29, 1975.
          2. KATHLEEN ANN GILLETT (2677), born April 8, 1956.
          3. MARY BETH GILLETT (2678), born May 11, 1960.
      4. MAUDE EDITH (GILLETT) LEATHERMAN (1412), of 41 32nd St., Grand Rapids, MI was born September 25, 1893 i n Georgetown Township. She attended Canada Hill grade school and Grandville High School. She married M.H. Ford Leatherman (1437), December 23,1914, at Caledonia, MI. He is retired from the C&O Railroad. He was Committeeman for the Boy Scouts, for six years. They had five children. Ford passed away January 1971. Maude passed away at age 86, on August 1, 1980. Buried in Georgetown Cemetery.
        1. RICHARD E. LEATHERMAN, (1438) of 9660 Division Ave., S., R.R.#1, Byron Center, MI, was born September 12, 1915 in Gaines Township, Kent Co. He attended Godwin High School. He married Leona Leggett (2679), December 18, 1940 at Redeemer Lutheran Church in Grand Rapids. Richard served in the Navy during W.W. II, on the Destroyer U.S.S. Reno, which on the night of November 3, 1945 was struck by a Japanese torpedo, tearing a 20 by 60 foot hole, just missing an ammunition magazine. Many lives were lost as it hit the sleeping quarters. The Reno was towed 1500 miles to a base where it could be repaired. It had just been in the battle of Leyte Gulf, and was standing by with Task Force 38, in the Philippine Sea. Richard now works for the Consumers Power Company. They attend Redeemer Lutheran Church. They have three children. Richard died March 6, 1990.
          1. CHERILEE (LEATHERMAN) MC KAY (2680), born September 15, 1946. Married Jon McKay (3610), 1970.
            1. CHERIE RENEE MC KAY (3611), born August 15, 1970.
          2. RICHE ANN LEATHERMAN (2681), born November 29, 1953.
          3. LARRY FORD LEATHERMAN (2682), born July 16, 1957.
        2. WAYNE DONALD LEATHERMAN (1439), of 6728 Kalamazoo Ave., Grand Rapids, MI, was born January 5, 1917 at Georgetown Twp. He attended Godwin High School. On November 25, 1944 he married Maretta May Sutton (2683) at Lutheran Church in Grand Rapids. Wayne served during World War II for 3 1/2 years in the European Theatre of Operations. He drove over 100,000 miles in England over narrow, winding roads, delivering highly confidential papers, photographs, or driving high ranking officers to widely scattered bases without light for security. In spite of danger there were no accidents. Wayne now works at Ghillesphy Maintenance, Sales and Service. He is a bookkeeper. They have one child.
          1. DONNA LYNN (LEATHERMAN) PAPKE (2684), born July 28,1946. Married William Papke (3612), 1968.
            1. LORI ELIZABETH PAPKE (3613), born July 6, 1972.
        3. ARLO FORD LEATHERMAN (1 440) of 37 Frontenac SE, Grand Rapids, MI, was born March 20, 1919 at Georgetown Twp. He attended Godwin High School. He married Esther Leggett (2685), August 29, 1942 at Redeemer Lutheran Church in Grand Rapids. Arlo was a Veteran of World War II. He also worked with the Boy Scouts. He was employed at Clements Electric Co. and attended Redeemer Lutheran Church. They had two children. Arlo passed away March 13, 1987, buried in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Grand Rapids.
          1. MICHAEL DAVID LEATHERMAN (2686), born June 7,1946.
          2. TIMOTHY ARLO LEATHERMAN (2687), born January 19, 1949.
        4. ROSWEL A. LEATHERMAN (1441), of 218 North Brooks St., Muskegon, MI, was born January 13,1922 in Gaines Twp., Kent Co. He attended Godwin High School . On February 14, 1946, he married Beverly Coverly (2688) at Redeemer Lutheran Church. Roswel was in the U.S. Marines 1st Division, 81 St M M Mortar Unit during World War II. He participated in battles at Guadalcanal, Cape Clouchester, New Britan and Reletiu. At present is a driver for Wolverine Express in Muskegon. They have seven children.
          1. SHARON KAY (LEATHERMAN) WENTLAND (2689), born September 18, 1946. Married James Wentland (3614) February 6, 1965
            1. JOHN PAUL WENTLAND (3615), born December 20, 1965.
            2. TODD ERIC WENTLAND (3616), born March 3, 1967.
            3. STEVEN JAMES WENTLAND (3617), born November 15, 1968.
            4. DAVID SCOTT WENTLAND (3618), born June 4, 1970.
            5. CARRIE LYNNE WENTLAND (3619), born April 6, 1972.
          2. NANCY LEE LEATHERMAN (2690), born July 29, 1948.
          3. ROLAND FORD LEATHERMAN (2691), born October 24, 1950.
          4. LINDA JOYCE (LEATHERMAN) SHERMAN (2692), born April 5, 1952. Married Fred Sherman (3620), 1968.
            1. MICHELLE SHERMAN (3621), born February 10, 1969.
            2. ROBERT ALLEN SHERMAN (3622), born September 9, 1970.
            3. CHRISTINE ANN SHERMAN (3623), born October 24, 1971.
          5. BRUCE AARON LEATHERMAN (2693), born October 22, 1953.
          6. DAN ERIC LEATHERMAN (2694), born October 29, 1956.
          7. PAUL RYAN LEATHERMAN (2695), born November 12, 1960.
        5. LOTS MARJORIE (LEATHERMAN) (JOHNSON) (TIGCHELAAR) PERRY (1442), of 7125 Noffke Dr., Caledonia, MI, was born November 20, 1926, in Paris Twp., Kent Co. She graduated from Godwin High School. January 1947 she married Lyle Johnson (2696) at Redeemer Lutheran Church in Grand Rapids. They had one child. They were divorced, and Lois married William Tigchelaar (2698) in February 1956. H e works at the Tigchelaar Construction Co. and she at Lear Inc. They attend Redeemer Lutheran Church. Third marriage to Charles Perry (3624), 1964
          1. RENEE SUE JOHNSON (2697), born April 4, 1950
      5. GRACE (GILLETT) VELDMAN (1413), of 4211 Port Sheldon Rd., Hudsonville, MI is the fifth child of Gertrude and Elmer Gillett. She was born March 19,1895 in Georgetown Twp. and attended Canada Hill School. She married George Veldman (1443) January 18, 1914 at Georgetown, MI. He is a farmer and she a housewife. They attend Hudsonville Reformed Church. They have ten children. George passed away April 28, 1964. Grace passed away October 20, 1979 at age 84. Both are buried in the Georgetown Cemetery.
        1. DOROTHY (VELDMAN) ALWARD (1444), of Port Sheldon Rd., Hudsonville, Mi, was born May 21, 1914 at Georgetown, MI. She attended Canada Hill, Chrysler and Alward grade schools and Hudsonville High School. She married Austin Alward (2699), February 10, 1939. He is a farmer and substitute mail carrier. They attend the Hudsonville Reformed Church, and she is a member of an Extension and Mother's Club. They have four children.
          1. ROBERT ALLEN ALWARD (2700), is the first child of Austin and Dorothy Alward and was born January 11, 1940, at Georgetown. He attended Alward grade school and Hudsonville High School. Robert is a bricklayer by trade. On March 6, 1962 he married Ruth Lapp (2704) and lives in Wyoming, ML
            1. ROBIN RUTH ALWARD (3625), born September 5, 1963.
            2. ROBERT ALWARD, JR (3626), born March 9, 1967.
            3. RENEE ALWARD (3627), born October 23, 1969.
          2. WANDA LEA (ALWARD) MUDGET (2701), born September 26, 1942. Married Michael Mudget (3628), June 26, 1970
            1. JILL MUDGET (3629), born April 14, 1971
            2. JAMES AUSTIN MUDGET (3630), born April 17, 1974.
          3. WARREN DALE ALWARD (2702), born May 7,1944. Married February 22,1975 to Blaine Soya Ulrich (3631), born October 29, 1944.
            1. WENDY ULRICH (3632), born April 19, 1970.
            2. WARREN ULRICH (3633), born December 3, 1971.
          4. GREGGORY SCOTT ALWARD (2703), born December 26,1950. Married Ellen Cobb (3634), June 24, 1964.
        2. HERMAN VELDMAN (1445), of Hudsonville, MI was born February 26, 1917 at Georgetown. He married Floy Alward (2705), September 20, 1940 at Georgetown. He attended the Canada Hill and Alward Schools. Herman works at the Edson Meat Packing Co. They attend Hudsonville Congregational Church. They have three children. Herman passed away November 29, 1990. Floy passed away April 17, 1991.
          1. BARBARA (VELDMAN) HUYSER (2706), born December 7, 1941. Married James Huyser (3635), 1972.
            1. MATTHEW HUYSER (3636), born June 19, 1967.
          2. WARD VELDMAN (2707), born January 2, 1943. Married Marcia Horrigan (3637), 1968.
          3. CONNIE LEA (VELDMAN) VAN BEEK (2708), born June 19, 1946. Married James Dale VanBeek (3638), April 20, 1965.
            1. ROSS VAN BEEK (3639), born August 30, 1966.
            2. JEFF VAN BEEK (3640), born January 24, 1968.
            3. RYAN VAN BEEK (3641), born 1971.
        3. WILLIS H. VELDMAN (1446), of Port Sheldon Rd., Hudsonville, Ml, was born June 27, 1919 in Georgetown. He attended the Alward School. On June 27,1939, he married Hazel Ringerwole (2709) in Georgetown. They attend the Congregational Church. Willis was a partnership owner of the Wedgewood Inn at Grandville. They have four children. Willis passed away November 3, 1979 at age 60, buried in Georgetown Cemetery.
          1. BEATRICE (VELDMAN) BRANDT (2710), was born December 21, 1940 at Hudsonville. She graduated from Hudsonville High School. On November 1, 1958 she married Ronald Brandt (2714) at Hudsonville. He works at the Hart Cooley Corp. S he is a housewife. They have three children.
            1. ROGER BRANDT (2715) born April 26, 1959.
            2. JACK A. BRANDT (2716), born April 23, 1961.
            3. LINDA BRANDT (3642), born April 23, 1965.
          2. KAREN KAY (VELDMAN) WIERENGA (2711), born December 31, 1943. Married Thomas Lee Wierenga (3033), January 31, 1964.
            1. TAMARA WIERENGA (3643), born December 17, 1966.
          3. SANDY L. (VELDMAN) COSTEN (2712), born March 15, 1947. Married Bruce Costen (3644), 1966.
            1. RONDA COSTEN (3645), born September 20, 1966
            2. RICK COSTEN (3636), born October 1, 1969.
          4. BRUCE VELDMAN (2713), born December 23, 1952.
        4. EDITH (VELDMAN) BUTLER (1447), of 22 Batavia PI NE, Grand Rapids, M1, was born November 27, 1920 at Hudsonville, MI. She attended Alward and Hudsonville Schools. On June 10, 1940 she married Robert J. Butler (2717). They are both in the drapery business. They attend the Christian Reformed Church. Seven children were born to this union. Edith passed away September 29, 1981 at age 60, buried in Georgetown Cemetery.
          1. PATRICIA ANN (BUTLER) TIGELAAR (2718), of Hudsonville, was born March 13, 1937 at Hudsonville. Attended schools in Grand Rapids and graduated from Hudsonville High School. She married Harrison Tigelaar (2725), June 21, 1958 at Hudsonville. He is a produce transporter. They attend Hudsonville Reformed Church. They have two children.
            1. BRENDA SUE TIGELAAR (2726), born April 30, 1959.
            2. WADE J. TIGELAAR (2727), born May 24, 1960.
          2. JOYCE (BUTLER) (TURNES) WARNER (2719), of 749 E. Fulton St, Grand Rapids, MI was born March 1, 1940 at Grand Rapids. She married Donald C. Turnes (2728) March 6,1956, at Grand Rapids. He is with the North Central Airlines. They have four children all born at Grand Rapids, MI. Remarried Donald Warner (3648), 1969.
            1. DONALD J. TURNES (2729), born 1956.
            2. WILLIAM P. TURNES (2730), born November 23, 1957.
            3. SHERRY LYNN TURNES (2731), born April 1959.
            4. RANDALL TURNES (3647), born March 7, 1967.
            5. PAULA WARNER, born January 25, 1970.
          3. SHIRLEY (BUTLER) HUDDLESTON (2720), was born August 20,1941 at Grand Rapids, MI. She was married to William Huddleston (2732), February 1958 at Grand Rapids, MI. He is a mechanic. They have six children.
            1. DENISE KAY HUDDLESTON (2733), born. November 1959.
            2. MARJORIE HUDDLESTON (2734), born August 1960.
            3. LORIE HUDDLESTON (2735), born October 23, 1961.
            4. WILLIAM JOSEPH HUDDLESTON, JR (3650), born April 22, 1963.
            5. JOSEPH JAMES HUDDLESTON (3651), born May 28, 1964
            6. TERRY HUDDLESTON (3652), born July 14, 1965.
          4. ILEEN (BUTLER) KRAMER (2721), was born December 31, 1942, at Grand Rapids, MI. She married Dick Kramer (2736), October 23, 1959. He is a Michigan Bakery Maintenance Man. They have two children.
            1. RICHARD G. KRAMER (2737), born April 13, 1960.
            2. ROBERT JAMES KRAMER (3653), born July 6, 1963.
          5. JACQUELINE JUNE (BUTLER) LOWELL (2722), born May 26, 1944. Jacqueline married James Lowell (3832).
            1. DAVID LOWELL (3833), born January 7, 1964.
            2. ANGELA LOWELL (3834), born August 22, 1965
            3. MELISSA LOWELL (3835), born April 3, 1968.
          6. NORMA LEE (BUTLER) BOGUS (2723), was born July 16,1945. She married Richard Bogue (2738), July 23, 1961. They have three children.
            1. KARRY ALLEN BOGUS (2739), born February 6,1962.
            2. PAMELA SUE BOGUS (3654), born January 3, 1963.
            3. TIMOTHY BOGUS (3836), born February 15, 1969.
          7. LOIS SUSANNE (BUTLER) ENTER (2724), born April 19,1950. Lois married James Enter (3837) in 1967.
            1. JAMES ENTER, JR (3838) born August 20, 1968.
        5. GEORGE VELDMAN JR. (1448), of 531 Huizenga St., Zeeland, MI, was born November 3, 1922 at Hudsonville, MI. He attended Alward and Hudsonville Schools. On June 25, 1949, he married Janet Marie Meeuwsen (2740) at Zeeland. He works at Edson's Meat Packing Co. They attend the First Reformed Church at Zeeland, MI. He served in the Blackhawk, 86th Divison during World War II. They have two children. Janet passed away January 1986, buried in Zeeland.
          1. BEVERLY VELDMAN (2741), born June 3, 1950.
          2. NANCY VELDMAN (2742), born June 5, 1952.
        6. DIXIE J. (VELDMAN) MEYER (1449), of Hudsonville, Mi was born October 22, 1924 in Georgetown. She attended Alward and Hudsonville Schools. On June 21,1946 she married Harry A. Meyer (2743). He is employed by the Spe-D-Gas Co. of Hudsonville. They attend the Hudsonville Reformed Church. They have five children. Harry passed away December 25, 1987, buried in the Georgetown Cemetery.
          1. TOM L. MEYER (2744), born January 5, 1951.
          2. TIM A. MEYER (2745), born July 28, 1955.
          3. TERRY B. MEYER (2746), born July 28, 1955, twin to Tim.
          4. TODD J. MEYER (2747), born October 28, 1960.
          5. TED MEYER (2835), born October 24, 1962.
        7. HENRIETTA F (VELDMAN) DYKE (1450), of Hudsonville, was born June 7, 1927. She attended Alward School. On October 16, 1946, she married Dick Dyke (2748) at Hudsonville. They attend the Christian Reformed Church. He is a farmer. They have three children.
          1. LARRY DYKE (2749), born Februa ry 19, 1948. Married Judy Vort (3655), December 12, 1968.
            1. KEVIN DYKE (3656), born May 29, 1970
            2. MICHAEL TODD DYKE (3657), born August 5, 1972.
            3. MARK RYAN DYKE (3658), born August 16, 1975.
          2. GARY DYKE (2750), born February 9,195 1. Married Nov 1972.
          3. DOUGLAS DYKE (2751), born May 11, 1959.
        8. GERALD LEE VELDMAN (1451), of Hudsonville was born October 16, 1929. He attended Alward and Hudsonville High School. December 11, 1954 he married Thressa J. DeYoung (2752) at Hudsonville. He is employed by the Hudsonville Dairy. Gerald served two years in the Korean War. They attend the Hudsonville Reformed Church and have four children
          1. KATHY JO VELDMAN (2753), born October 28, 1955.
          2. LINDA RAE VELDMAN (2754), born December 14, 1956.
          3. JAMES VELDMAN (2836), born August 27, 1961.
          4. SHERYL VELDMAN (2837), born August 25, 1962.
          5. IRWIN VELDMAN (3839), born December 9,1965.
          6. DONNA VELDMAN (3840), born December 21, 1966.
        9. EARL L. VELDMAN (1452) of Port Sheldon Rd. Hudsonville, was born October 4,1932. He attended Alward and Hudsonville High School. Also served two years in the Armed Forces. On June 12, 1959 he married Cornelia Naglekirk (2755) at Hudsonville, MI. He is employed by the Mead Johnson Dairy. They attend the Hudsonville Reformed Church. They have three children
          1. DAVID VELDMAN (2756), born February 12, 1960.
          2. DUANE VELDMAN (2757), born January 14,1961.
          3. NORMAN JAY VELDMAN (3659), born February 19, 1964.
        10. MYRTLE L. (VELDMAN) HUIZENGA (1453), of Hudsonville was born June 26, 1935. She attended Alward and Hudsonville High School. She married Gerrit Huizenga (2758), September 21, 1956 at H udsonville. He is a painter. They attend Hudsonville Reformed Church. They have three children.
          1. STEVEN J. HUIZENGA (2759), born July 13, 1957.
          2. M ICHAEL ALLEN HUIZENGA (2760), born July 11, 1959.
          3. PAUL G. HUIZENGA (3660), born March 26, 1964.
      6. CARL L. GILLETT (1414), of 307 16th St. N. Great Falls, Montana, was born December 4, 1896 at Hudsonville, Ml. He married Dorlis R. Alexander (1454) at Fort Benton, Montana, June 23, 1935. He is a merchant, belongs to the Shrine, Masons, and was a Veteran of World War I. His wife is a nurse. They have two daughters. Carl passed away August 1, 1970, buried Great Falls, Montana.
        1. CARLENE DORLIS (GILLETT) GRERA (1455), of 74146th St., S. Great Falls, Montana, was born August 17, 1936 at Great Falls, Mont. She married Donald L. Grera (2761), May 29, 1953 at Fort Benton, Montana. He is a building contractor. They attend the Catholic Church and have four children.
          1. CARLA JEAN GRERA (2762), born January 3, 1954.
          2. DEBRA LEE GRERA (2763), born February 18, 1955.
          3. CHERYL ANN GRERA (2764), born July 23, 1958.
          4. DOUGLAS GRERA (3841), born October 20, 1964.
        2. SHIRLEY JEAN (GILLETT) COLGAN (1456), was born January 27, 1939 at Great Falls, Montana. She married Daniel L. Colgan (2765), September 12, 1959. He is a student in Forrestry at Missoula, Montana She is a Secretary, graduated from Catholic High School. They have two children.
          1. RICK DANIEL COLGAN (2766), born June 14, 1960.
          2. TERRI COLGAN (3842), born July 16, 1963.
      7. GEORGE D. GILLETT (1415), of 4445 Baldwin Dr. Hudsonville, MI, was born March 21, 1898 in Georgetown. He attended Canada Hill School. On June 7, 1922, he married Florence Ulberg in Georgetown. He is a Metal Finisher at Reynolds Metals. They belong to the Extension Club. They have three children. George passed away September 4, 1975 at age 77, Florence passed away January 7, 1977 at age 74, and both are buried in Georgetown Cemetery.
        1. DALE E. GILLETT (1458), of 3695 Kipling, Berkley, M., was born May 22,1927 at Grand Rapids, MI. He attended Canada Hill grade school and graduated from Junior College, and Michigan State University. Dale is a veteran of World War II. In June 1953 he married Esther June Roth (2767) at Hudsonville, MI. They attend the Presbyterian Church. He does insurance adjusting and accounting for General Motors. They have four children.
          1. CINDY ANN GILLETT (2768), born June 16, 1954.
          2. MARY BETH GILLETT (2769), born July 10, 1957, at Houston TX. Mary Beth met with an accidental death, July 1, 1961.
          3. LINDA RUTH GILLETT (2770), born September 16, 1959.
          4. ELIZABETH DALE GILLETT (3032), born April 25, 1963.
        2. DONALD G. GILLETT (1459), of 1117 N. Hayford St., Lansing, MI was born May 14,1930 at Grand Rapids, MI. He attended Canada Hill School, Hudsonville High School, Hope College and Michigan State University. On May 3, 1952 he married Phyllis Zwagerman (2771) at Hudsonville. Donald is a Korean War Veteran with two years service. He is in the Department of Agriculture for the State of Michigan. They have three children.
          1. LORNA SUE GILLETT (2772), born December 16, 1953.
          2. SANDRA RAE GILLETT (2773), born June 23, 1957.
          3. BRIAN DONALD GILLETT (2774), born February 18, 1960.
        3. MARILYN (GILLETT) MARVIN (1460), born January 1, 1934 at Georgetown Married Larry Marvin (3661), October 19, 1969.
      8. ADA MARIE (GILLETT) ROBERTSON (1416), of 421 N. Cullen Ave., Glendora, CA, was born January 29, 1900 at Georgetown, MI. She graduated from Hudsonville High School and Nurses" Training School at Goshen and Indianapolis, Indiana. On December 30,1925, she married Douglas Earl Robertson (1461) at Hudsonville, MI. She is a member of Glendora Christian Church and Glendora Coordinating council League for Nursing. Ada is a Registered and Visiting Nurse in Glendora. She is divorced. They had four children.
        1. DAVID JUSTIN ROBERTSO N (1462), of 124 Manistee Lane East Islip, Long Island, New York, was born August 20, 1927 at St. Clair, MI. He attended the George Washington University at Washington D.C. On March 26, 1951 he was married to Helen Patricia Cullen (2775) at Washington D.C. David is a Public Accountant. He belongs to the Country Village Civic Ass'n, the St Mary's Holy Name Society, the American Institute of C.P.A.'s and the N.Y. State Society of C.P.A.'s, and also is Suffolk County Councilor for Boy Scouts of America. He also served three years during World War 11 in the Philippine area. They have one child.
          1. MICHAEL DAVID ROBERTSON (2776), born April 6, 1953.
        2. DUANE EUGENE ROBERTSON (1463), of 7332 Almond Ave., Orangeville, CA, was born August 12, 1929 at Hudsonville, MI. He attended school at Farmington, MI, Goshen Indiana High School, Monrovia California High School and Junior College at Sacremento, CA. On June 17,1950, he married Isabelle Delfosse (2777) at Arcadia, CA. He is employed by the Aerojet Corp. at Orangeville CA. They belong to the Catholic Church, and have five children.
          1. KIM GREGORY ROBERTSON (2778), born September 20, 1951.
          2. JEFFRY ALLEN ROBERTSON (2779), born December 4, 1952.
          3. PENNY LYNN ROBERTSON (2780), born December 18, 1953.
          4. PAMELA ANN ROBERTSON (2781), born April 29, 1955.
          5. KERRY ROBERTSON (2782), born December 17, 1957.
        3. KING GILLETT ROBERTSON (1464), of 3840 Elmhurst Place, Boulder, CO, was born January 7,1933 at Detroit, MI. He attended the Army and Navy Academy at Carlsbad, CA, the Colorado School of Mines at Colden CO. His wife is the former Doris Louise Jager (2783), of Kalamazoo, MI whom he married August 1, 1957 at Golden, CO. She is a housewife and teacher. He is a Metallurgist with the Coors Porcelain Co. He was in the Signal Corp during the Korean War. They belong to the Presbyterian Church, the Choir and the Young Married Couples Club.
          1. JACQUELINE SUE ROBERTSON (2786), (adopted) born March 15, 1956
          2. JEAN ELLEN ROBERTSON (2784), born October 24, 1959.
          3. BRUCE DOUGLAS ROBERTSON (2785), born July 14, 1961.
          4. ANN LOUISE ROBERTSON (3843) born March 5, 1968.
        4. DEAN SCOTT ROBERTSON (1465), was born at Hudsonville, MI August 28, 1937. He was in the Army stationed at Treasure Island, San Diego, CA. Married Judy Farran (3844) of Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1967.
          1. WENDY ROBERTSON (3845), born August 28, 1968.
      9. MARION GILLETT (1417), of 40th St. Hudsonville, MI was born February 17,1903. He attended Canada Hill and Hudsonville Schools. He married Verla King (1466) in 1929. They had three children, they were divorced and he married Hazel Nibbilink (1470), April 23, 1941. For years he was Superintendent at the Grand Rapids Creamery Co. They attend the Congregational Church. Marion passed away June 10, 1967, buried in the Georgetown Cemetery.
        1. RUSSELL K. GILLETT (1467), of 3759 Balsum NE Grand Rapids, MI, was born January 30, 1930 at Allendale, Illinois , He attended Union Elementary and graduated from Comstock Park High School and Davenport Institute of Grand Rapids. His wife is the former Beverly Bohn (2787) whom he married, March 14, 1952. For three years he served in the U.S. Coast Guard They attend Trinity Congregational Church. He is employed by the Michigan National Bank in the Mortgage Dept. They have six children.
          1. DAWN LOUISE GILLETT (2788), born April 10, 1953.
          2. KIM ELLIOT GILLETT (2789), born October 7, 1954.
          3. RENEE ANN GILLETT (2790), born March 30, 1956.
          4. BETH HAZEL GILLETT (2791), born September 26, 1957.
          5. LANE RUSSELL GILLETT (2792), born October 2, 1959.
          6. HOLLE MARIE GILLETT (2793), born January 12, 1961.
        2. BETTY (GILLETT) WEBBER (1468), was born January 2, 1933. She graduated from Union High School. In 1955, she married Douglas Webber (2794) at Grand Rapids, MI. He is a General Electric Missile Tech. They live in California where they attend the Methodist Church. They have five children.
          1. SUSAN G. WEBBER (2795), born January 23, 1957.
          2. STEPHEN WEBBER (2796), born February 17, 1958.
          3. CRAIG WEBBER (2797), born June 1959.
          4. THOMAS WEBBER (2798), born August 1960.
          5. SHARI LYNN WEBBER born May 24, 1964.
        3. CAROL ANN (GILLETT) ARNOLD (1469), was born October 1939 at Grand Rapids, MI. From childhood she has lived in the west, with her present address, 9125 N.E. Sandy Blvd., Portland 21, Oregon. Married Jerry Arnold (3663), September 4, 1965 of Bend Oregon.
          1. BRUCE ANDREW ARNOLD (3664), born October 27,1966.
          2. BARBARA JEAN ARNOLD (3665), born April 11, 1968
      10. MARY (GILLETT) FRY (1418), of 1908 Blandford Ave., SW, Grand Rapids, MI, was born May 25,1907 at Georgetown, MI. She attended Canada Hill, Hudsonville High School and graduated from Western Michigan University with an AB degree. Her husband is Lloyd C. Fry (1471) whom she married in 19 29 in Indiana. He is Superintendent of Lee and Godfrey Schools. She is a teacher. They attend the Congregational Church, and are members of the Rotary Club and Rotary Anus and also the M.E.A. They have three children. Lloyd passed....????
        1. HOMER C. FRY (1472), of 1525 Paulson Rd., Muskegon, MI, was born July 14, 1930 at Hudsonville, MI He graduated from Lee High School and Western Michigan University with a Master's Degree. On September 6, 1950, he married Marilyn Hoek (2799) at Grand Rapids, MI. He is a teacher, and belongs to the Congregational Church and also the M.E.A. They have one child
          1. SHARON FRY (2800), born April 4,1951.
        2. CARL FRY (1473), of 28646 Leona, Garden City, MI, was born October 19, 1932 at Stevensville, MI. He attended Lee High School, Junior College and Michigan State University. His wife is the former Delores May Cooley (2801) whom he married October 25, 1952, at Bremerton, Washington. For 2 1/2 years he served in the Navy. He is employed as an Ornamental Iron Erector . They attend the Catholic Church and have four children.
          1. MICHAEL FRY (2802), born November 12, 1953.
          2. PATRICK FRY (2803), born August 16, 1955.
          3. TERRY FRY (2804), born January 18, 1957.
          4. TIMMY FRY (2805), born January 1, 1958.
          5. MICHELE FRY (3847) born February 10, 1961.
        3. KEITH FRY (1474), of 101 Capitol Dr., Midland, MI, born May 21, 1934 at White Cloud, MI. He attended Lee High School and has his Master's Degree from Michigan State University. His wife is the former Mary Lou Brown (2806), whom he married September 3, 1955 at Grand Rapids, MI. They attend the Catholic Church. For two years he served in the Army. He is now a Chemical Engineer in the Research Field. They have three children.
          1. JEFFERY FRY (2807), born May 21, 1956.
          2. JUDY FRY (2808), born August 30, 1957.
          3. KEVIN FRY (2809), born June 8, 1960.

    This Completes The Life Of Mary (Lowing) Bosworth And All Her Known Descendants

    Ch. 09 : Ulysses Lowing

    Lowing Family History

    Updated by Bruce Sheridan Lowing

    Chapter 9: Ulysses Lowing

    ULYSSES LOWING (72), the seventh child of Isaac and Lavina Lowing was bom in 1827, and lived but a few weeks.

    Ch. 10 : Corelia Lowing Spears

    Lowing Family History

    Updated by Bruce Sheridan Lowing

    Chapter 10: Corelia (Lowing) Spears

    Corelia (Lowing) Spears (73), was the eighth child bom to Isaac and Lavina Lowing in 1830 at East Bloomfield, New York. She was thirteen when the family moved to Michigan. Very little was recorded about Cordelia in the Lowing Book. She attended the Canada Hill School, and lived at home until her marriage to Martin Spears (1475), when she moved to a home a short distance away. Five children were born to this union before Martin ran away from home, joining the Army at the time of the Civil War, leaving Cordelia with the care of all the children. He never wrote, and when the war was over no one could find any trace of him. The family had a difficult time, and the children moved away as soon as they were able to do so, and found work.

    Cordelia died in 1876, at the age of 46, and none of the children except Stephen lived long after their mother died. Stephen moved to another State, and no one ever heard from him. Cordelia was buried in Georgetown Cemetery

    The children were Eugene (1476), Inez (1477), Laura (1478), Stephen (1479) and Archibald (1480). Laura and Archibald died in early childhood, and the rest in their early maturity.

    Ch. 11 : Elizabeth Bosworth

    Lowing Family History

    Updated by Bruce Sheridan Lowing

    Chapter 11: Elizabeth (Lowing) Bosworth

    ELIZABETH (LOWING) BOSWORTH (74), the youngest of the nine children fo Isaac and Lavina Lowing, was born at East Gainesville, New York, in 1833. She was ten years old when the family reached Michigan, October 18, 1843. She had a cold memory of that arrival for that night she fell in a creek on the way to her father's cabin. (See life of Isaac and Lavina) She was one of the children that attended the first Canada Hill School, which was built in 1845. Miss Ann Evarts was her first teacher in Michigan.

    Furniture and beds were scarce in the log cabin, most of the children slept on the floor in the loft, but Elizabeth had a bed on the floor at the foot of her parent's bed, and said it kept her from being afraid when the wolves howled at night.

    In April of 1855, Elisha P. Bosworth (1481) visited his brother Franklin, and Elizabeth's sister Mary (See poem at end of History). Here he met Libby. He came to Michigan again that fall, and married Elizabeth, September 23, 1855, and she accompanied him to his farm in Illinois, going by boat to Chicago.

    One year later in September of 1856, Libby's father and mother visited her in Illinois, having taken a steamer to Grand Haven and crossing the Lake to Chicago. After Lavina's death, Isaac made another trip to visit his daughter Libby in 1872.

    During the winters Franklin shaved shingles and shipped them to Illinois for Elisha to sell.

    In the summer of 1870, Libby and Elisha visited Michigan and were the instigators of the family picture for which 26 members of the family drove the long distance to Grand Rapids.

    Elisha P. Bosworth died, April 5, 1904, and two weeks later on April 22, 1904 Elizabeth passed away. Both are burried at LaSalle, Illinois. They had eight children.

    1. ELMA ADA (BOSWORTH) (SPICER) STEEN (1482), was born July 3, 1857 at LaSalle, Illinois. She married Fremont Spicer (1490), September 23, 1879. After his death she married Claus Steen (1330) of Georgetown, Michigan, August 6, 1904. She died August 4, 1906.
    2. ELSKA LILLIE (BOSWORTH) (EVITTS) TURNER (1483), was born October 26, 1858 at LaSalle, Illinois. She married S.R. Evitts (1492), July 4, 1888 and a second time to Thomas Turner (1493), June 16, 1894.
    3. EFFIE BELL (BOSWORTH) BIGNALL (1484), was born Febnrary 20, 1860. She married Herbert Bignall (1494), January 1, 1879
    4. JABIN ELMER BOSWORTH (1485), was born January 16, 1862 and died March 2, 1862.
    5. RUTH EDNA (BOSWORTH) (HAYNES) (SATRANY) MOORE (1486), was born in LaSalle, August 15, 1867. She married George B. Haynes (1495), July 14, 1892. Second marriage was to T. Satrany (1496) and the third was to Joshua Moore (1497).
    6. FRANK ELISHA BOSWORTH (1487), was born January 5, 1869 and married Blanche L. Henry (1498), September 29, 1 901
    7. MARY ELIZABETH (BOSWORTH) BUTTERFIELD (1488), was born November 19, 1873, and married Stanley Butterfield (1499), May 5, 1897. They had five children.
      1. LEE I. BUTTERFIELD (1500)
      2. WILLIAM T. BUTTERFIELD (1501)
      3. BESSIE M BUTTERFIELD (1502), was born November 25, 1904.
      4. HOWARD S. BUTTERFIELD (1503), was born August 31, 1908 and died August 3, 1916.
      5. RAY CHARLES BUTTERFIELD (1504).
    8. RALPH EVITTS BOSWORTH (1489), was born March 9, 1875 at LaSalle, Illinois. He married Maud Stickney (1505). They had two children.
      1. HOWARD RALPH BOSWORTH (1506)
      2. DORIS IRENE BOSWORTH (1507).

    This Is The End Of The Life And The Known Descendants Of Elizabeth (Lowing) Bosworth. ="_blank" href="./genealogy/individual.php?ged=Lowing5.ged&pid=I1488">1488), was born November 19, 1873, and married Stanley Butterfield (1499), May 5, 1897. They had five children.

    1. LEE I. BUTTERFIELD (1500)
    2. WILLIAM T. BUTTERFIELD (1501)
    3. BESSIE M BUTTERFIELD (1502), was born November 25, 1904.
    4. HOWARD S. BUTTERFIELD (1503), was born August 31, 1908 and died August 3, 1916.
    5. RAY CHARLES BUTTERFIELD (1504).
  • RALPH EVITTS BOSWORTH (1489), was born March 9, 1875 at LaSalle, Illinois. He married Maud Stickney (1505). They had two children.
    1. HOWARD RALPH BOSWORTH (1506)
    2. DORIS IRENE BOSWORTH (1507).

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