GEORGE W. DEMING. Owing and operating a well tilled farm of thirty-two acres on section 24 of Blackman Township, Mr. Deming finds time for much work in behalf of religion and morality, wisely thinking that an accumulation of a large of amount of this world's goods will not prove satisfactory to him if gained at the expense of mental and spiritual growth. He and his wife are members of the Free Will Baptist Church and active in the work of the society, particularily among the young. The reputation which they bear is a most excellent one, combining a good repute in moral character, with that of enterprise and industry in financial and household affairs. The gentleman with whose name we introduce this sketch is the second of four children, born to the late Benjamin Deming and his wife Elizabeth Sayles. The parents were natives of New York and Pennsylvania respectively, and from the former state removed to Michigan about the year 1869, settling in Waterloo Township, this county, where the father died in 1884. The birthplace of G. W. Deming, was Chemung County, N.Y., and his natal day December 14, 1852. He came to this county with his parents, with whom he remained until about 1875, when he went to Isabella County, finding employment on a farm and in the woods, and remaining there three and a half years. He then returned to Jackson County, and until March, 1886, lived in Waterloo Township, at that date locating on the farm which he now occupies and where he is conducting successfully his agricultural work and enjoying the comforts of his pleasant home. At the home of the bride in Isabella County, Mich., Mr. Deminng was united in marriage with Miss Cora Wellman who bore him one child - Flora. The little one was removed by death when four years old, and the wife and mother breathed her last in Waterloo Township in November, 1878. After having remained a widower until March 2, 1886, Mr. Deming was again married, the ceremony being celebrated in Jackson, Michigan, and the bride being Mrs. Minnie (Kohn) Hurd. The bride was born in Germany, November 17, 1852 to John and Elizabeth Kohn of that Empire, in which the mother died. Mr. Kohn came to America and is now living in Blackman Township, this county. Samuel Hurd, the first husband of Mrs. Deming, died in the city of Jackson, October 18, 1884, and in that city his widow continued to reside until her marriage to our subject. |
