Updated 11/15/2023

Lenawee County Michigan
Memorial Report to the Pioneer Society, 1879-1880
by Francis A. Dewey


TownshipNameAge
ClintonWoodard, Lewis80
ClintonWoodard, Mary (w/o Lewis)69
AdrianTreat, Butler68
RaisinColvin, William92
RidgewayDibble, Catherine98
WoodstockHeath, Anna68
WoodstockSmith, Mary88
AdrianCarter, Olive73
PalmyraCraig, Robert73
WoodstockJackson, Joseph66
CambridgeMyers, Deborah88
AdrianIngersoll, Mary R.64
RomeBugbee, Daniel67
RomeKnapp, Reuben79
CambridgeDaniels, Mary47
ClaytonHitchin, Timothy82
PalmyraDecker, Joseph86
AdrianBerry, Bathsheba83
WoodstockLair, Elizabeth76
AdrianSwartout, Mary67
AdrianGregory, Ira84
AdrianCook, Lewis A.58
MadisonHigby, Polly66
RollinSalsbury, Orsym75
AdrianMarshall, Benjamin79
CambridgeAyers, John72
OgdenHicks, Ephriam86
WoodstockHand, Elizabeth73
AddisonCole, David94
CambridgePratt, Sally84
AdrianJones, Dianah81
MadisonHuntington, Samuel87
TecumsehMitchell, Timothy82
AdrianHart, Hon. Henry*61
FranklinBlair, Sarah71
TecumsehFisher, Dr. William50
TecumsehAdams, Isaac76
*****Baker, Sarah80
MaconForbes, Joshua80
MaconLinsley, Rachel73
FranklinKimball, Mrs. Samuel67
RollinHoag, Stephen67
WoodstockVance, Eliza70
AdrianTeachout, Welcome65
AdrianBaker, Norton77
RomeStockwell, Thiren A.82
AdrianVedder, John73
TecumsehChatterron, Harriet G.74
TecumsehStrang, Sarah J.43
FranklinWhalen, Cyrus88
AdrianHunt, William67
FranklinBlanford, John69
AdrianMrs. Joseph Bennett60
AdrianClark, E. L.69
AdrianEddy, Morton70
FairfieldLemon, Catherine70

*Hon. Henry Hart, died from injuries received at the fall of the grand stand at Adrian, 1879.

Hon. D. K. Underwood, first president of the Lenawee County Pioneer Society, died 1875, aged seventy-two.

Dr. T. F. Dodge, Adrian, first treasurer of this society, died 1877, aged seventy-one.

The pioneers who have left us the past year, according to the best record we have, now number fifty-seven, their united ages being 4,144 years, average age seventy-two years. There were thirty-five over seventy years of age, nineteen over eighty, three over ninety. Two youngest born in this county and died here, forty-three and forty seven; two oldest, David Cole, ninety-four and Catherine Dibble, Ridgeway, ninety-eight.