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Fellows Family Land Records, Wexford County, Michigan Liber 139 page 507

March 23rd, 2010 | Posted by Granny Pam in Papa's Ancestors - (0 Comments)

This entry is part 65 of 99 in the series Deeds in the Family

I am posting information gleaned from land records in the areas where our family’s ancestors resided. You can read more about this project in the overview. You may also check my deed record listing, which I will update frequently, but probably not every day. This group pertain to Papa’s Fellows ancestors who resided in Wexford County, Michigan.

Date:	7 May 1945
Liber:	139
Page:	507
Location:	Wexford Co., MI
Grantor:	Charles Tinker & Belle Tinker his wife
Grantee:	Earl T. Colbert & Marie Colbert Husband and Wife
Witnesses:	Jno A. Muche, Harriet Muche
Type of deed:	Warranty
Rec’d and recording:	24 Jan 1947
Clerk/registrar:	Brown
Location of land:	Colfax
Consideration:	$1,000
Notes:	Belle signed with an X, although She could write and had signed previous deeds.
Description:	The W 1/2 of the NE 1/4 of the NW 1/4 of Section 9 T23N R10W except a piece of land in the NW corner 10 rods N-S by 12 rods E-W and also a piece starting 12 rods E of the corner of the NW 1/4 of the NW 1/4 and running east 24 rods, south 10 rods, west 24 rods and north 10 rods to the point of beginning.

Charlie Tinker died on 5 January 1946, less than a year after the this deed was executed. I cannot explain why Mr. & Mrs. Colbert did not file this deed until 24 January 1947, but since Charlie died on 5 January, maybe that prompted them to act. I have again used a portion of the Colfax Township map from the 1914¹ Atlas to show the location of the property.

Standard Map Company., Atlas of Wexford County, Michigan : containing complete maps of all townships, names of property owners, maps of the county, city of Cadillac, United States and State of Michigan., Standard Map Company., Cadillac Evening News (Firm) (Cadillac, Mich.: Cadillac Evening News, c1914), page 20, The University of Michigan. Michigan County Histories and Atlases. http://name.umdl.umich.edu/3928167.0001.001 : accessed 2 November 2009.

Colbert, Fellows, Tinker. Land Records, Wexford Co MI

Fellows Family Land Records, Wexford County, Michigan Liber 128 page 451

March 22nd, 2010 | Posted by Granny Pam in Papa's Ancestors - (0 Comments)

This entry is part 64 of 99 in the series Deeds in the Family

Date:	16 June 1936
Liber:	128
Page:	451
Location:	Wexford County, MI
Grantor:	Charles Tinker & Belle Tinker his wife of Colfax, Wexford, MI
Grantee:	I. Fay Horton, C. Howard Horton
Witnesses:	Warranty
Type of deed:	16 June 1936
Rec’d and recording:	6 June 1936
Clerk/registrar:	Johnson
Location of land:	Colfax
Consideration:	$75.00
Notes:
Description:	Start 12 rods east of the corner of the NW 1/4 of the NW 1/4 of Section 9, T23N R10W, then east 24 rods, south 10 rods, west 24 rods, then north 10 rods to the start.

On this deed, Charlie and Belle sold a lot of about 1.5 acres to Clayton L. Babcock. I used the Colfax map from the 1914 atlas¹ to show the position of the lot descried in this deed.

Standard Map Company., Atlas of Wexford County, Michigan : containing complete maps of all townships, names of property owners, maps of the county, city of Cadillac, United States and State of Michigan., Standard Map Company., Cadillac Evening News (Firm) (Cadillac, Mich.: Cadillac Evening News, c1914), page 20, The University of Michigan. Michigan County Histories and Atlases. http://name.umdl.umich.edu/3928167.0001.001 : accessed 2 November 2009.

Babcock, Fellows, Horton, Tinker. Land Records, Wexford Co MI

Fellows Family Land Records, Wexford County, Michigan Liber 97 page 114

March 20th, 2010 | Posted by Granny Pam in Papa's Ancestors - (0 Comments)

This entry is part 63 of 99 in the series Deeds in the Family

Date:	31 December 1919
Liber:	97
Page:	114
Location:	Wexford County, MI
Grantor:	Harmon Longstreet & Susie Longstreet his wife of Colfax, Wexford, MI
Grantee:	Charlie Tinker & Belle Tinker of the same place
Witnesses:	Stephen Dassance, Ross Fenton
Type of deed:	Warranty
Rec’d and recording:	5 Feb 1920
Clerk/registrar:	Slack
Location of land:	Colfax
Consideration:	$225.00
Notes:	Ross Fenton was Susie’s son, and Belle’s son-in-law.
Description:	NW 1/4 of the NE 1/4 Sect 17 T23N R10W

More in Section 16. Papa’s families populated this area for much of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Many of the names which appear in today’s atlas are cousins, or descendents of other landowners of that time.

Here is the location of the land, which I plotted on a portion of a page from an old 1914 Atlas¹ of Wexford County, here is a visual of the land in question.

Standard Map Company., Atlas of Wexford County, Michigan : containing complete maps of all townships, names of property owners, maps of the county, city of Cadillac, United States and State of Michigan., Standard Map Company., Cadillac Evening News (Firm) (Cadillac, Mich.: Cadillac Evening News, c1914), page 20, The University of Michigan. Michigan County Histories and Atlases. http://name.umdl.umich.edu/3928167.0001.001 : accessed 2 November 2009.

Fenton, Land Records, Longstreet, Wexford Co MI

Fellows Family Land Records, Wexford County, Michigan Liber 97 page 98

March 19th, 2010 | Posted by Granny Pam in Papa's Ancestors - (0 Comments)

This entry is part 62 of 99 in the series Deeds in the Family

Date:	13 December 1919
Liber:	97
Page:	98
Location:	Wexford County, MI
Grantor:	Ross Fenton & Edna Fenton his wife of Colfax, Wexford, MI
Grantee:	Charles E. inker & Belle Tinker of the same place
Witnesses:	N.A. Reynolds & Linda K. Reynolds
Type of deed:	Warranty
Rec’d and recording:	19 Dec 1919
Clerk/registrar:	Slack
Location of land:	Colfax
Consideration:	$225.00
Notes:	N.A. Reynolds was a 1st cousin once removed of Ross Fenton [1C1R]
Description:	NW 1/4 of the NE 1/4 Sect 17 T23N R10W

This is another little piece of the section 16 puzzle I am working my way through. When I started going through these deeds, I supposed that dividing they by family made the most sense. Now I see that the land was passed around between families. I should probably have divided it my location of land, ordered by the dates of the transactions.

I am going to keep plodding away, and one day it will all make sense. Why? Because I am making a new spreadsheet which I will be able to sort by section, description, grantor, grantee, or whatever else I think of between now and then. When that is done I will have the whole ball of was. [Do not hold your breath.] I also have a group of transactions for which I am going to clarify information when I make a trip up to Wexford County soon. All of this will hopefully provide a more complete picture of the land transactions and relationships of Papa’s Wexford County ancestors in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

In the meantime, from the Colfax township page of the old 1914 Atlas¹ of Wexford County, here is a visual of the land in question.

Standard Map Company., Atlas of Wexford County, Michigan : containing complete maps of all townships, names of property owners, maps of the county, city of Cadillac, United States and State of Michigan., Standard Map Company., Cadillac Evening News (Firm) (Cadillac, Mich.: Cadillac Evening News, c1914), page 20, The University of Michigan. Michigan County Histories and Atlases. http://name.umdl.umich.edu/3928167.0001.001 : accessed 2 November 2009.

Fenton, Land Records, Reynolds, Tinker, Wexford Co MI

Fellows Family Land Records, Wexford County, Michigan Liber 87 page 383

March 13th, 2010 | Posted by Granny Pam in Papa's Ancestors - (2 Comments)

This entry is part 61 of 99 in the series Deeds in the Family

Date:	15 July 1914
Liber:	87
Page:	383
Location:	383
Grantor:	Lester E. Stone and Sarah E. Stone of Manton, MI
Grantee:	Charles E. Tinker & Belle Tinker of Manton, MI
Witnesses:	Addie Campbell, Guy W. Slack
Type of deed:	Warranty
Rec’d and recording:	15 July 1914
Clerk/registrar:	Slack
Location of land:	Colfax, Wexford, MI
Consideration:	$1,800
Notes:
Description:	N1/2 of SE1/4 of NW1/4 and NE1/4 of NW1/4 Sec 16 T23N R10W abt 60 ac

Belle and Charlie lived on this piece of of land when M-in-L was a child. This deed shows why I believe it is important to leave no STONE unturned while researching your family. If you look back at the post I wrote about Charlie Tinker, you can see that Charlie and Belle married on 15 July 1914. Interesting this deed was recorded the same day Charlie and Belle married, apparently in a judge’s chambers at the courthouse. A closer look shows that Lester and Sarah Stone were the witnesses. Oh. Although Charlie Tinker’s obituary gave an earlier year for their marriage, I am convinced that the actual date was 15 July 1914.

One little postcard shows how valuable various fragments of evidence can become. In the collection from Belle’s box, I wrote about a postcard from Mrs. Stone, which was postmarked 31 July 1914. Looks like Belle and Charlie got a dog with the house and property!

The location is marked in red from the 1914 atlas of Wexford County¹ which is online on a University of Michigan site. The blue outlined property was owned at various times by people associated with Belle. The northern most property was owned by Alfred Fenton, a brother-in-law of Belle’s daughter, Edna. Edna’s mother-in-law, Susie M. Burdick Fenton Longstreet and her husband Harmon H. Longstreet owned the remaining property outlined in blue.

Standard Map Company., Atlas of Wexford County, Michigan : containing complete maps of all townships, names of property owners, maps of the county, city of Cadillac, United States and State of Michigan., Standard Map Company., Cadillac Evening News (Firm) (Cadillac, Mich.: Cadillac Evening News, c1914), page 20, The University of Michigan. Michigan County Histories and Atlases. http://name.umdl.umich.edu/3928167.0001.001 : accessed 2 November 2009.

Campbell, Fellows, Lamunion, Stone, Tinder

Fellows Family Land Records, Wexford County, Michigan Liber 86 page 212

March 12th, 2010 | Posted by Granny Pam in Papa's Ancestors - (0 Comments)

This entry is part 60 of 99 in the series Deeds in the Family

Date:	27 August 1913
Liber:	86
Page:	212
Location:	Wexford County, MI
Grantor:	Mrs. Belle Fellows of Cedar Creek, Wexford Co., MI
Grantee:	Herbert Doolittle of Ann Arbor, MI
Witnesses:	Charley Tinker, Isaac C. Wheeler, Notary Public
Type of deed:	Warranty
Rec’d and recording:	28 August 1913
Clerk/registrar:	Slack
Location of land:	Cedar Creek, Wexford, MI
Consideration:	$1,300
Notes:
Description:	NE 1/4 of the NW 1/4 Sect 5 T23N R10W

Belle’s tenure on this property in Cedar Creek was short-lived. She purchased on 21 March 1907 and sold on 27 Aug 1913. Comparing amounts on the deeds shows that she “earned” $200 for that period. It does not seem like a lot of money, until you think of it as 18.18 % of the beginning sale price of the property. I made a calculation at my favorite site for figuring value, Measuring Worth. According to the site, $1,100 in 1907 is equivalent to the following values in 1913:

$1,159.17	using the Consumer Price Index
$1,171.18	using the GDP deflator
$1,262.96	using the value of consumer bundle
$1,144.77	using the unskilled wage
$1,138.20	using the nominal GDP per capita
$1,271.86	using the relative share of GDP

We don’t know what improvements may have been made to the property between 1907 and 1913, so we can not really tell if Belle profited from the sale, or lost money after making considerable improvement.

The property didn’t move, but apparently Belle moved on. If you want to see the location of this land, you may view the map with the description of the purchase transaction.

Fellows, Land Records, Tinker, Wexford Co MI, Wheeler

Fellows Family Land Records, Wexford County, Michigan Liber 63 page 22

March 10th, 2010 | Posted by Granny Pam in Papa's Ancestors - (0 Comments)

This entry is part 59 of 99 in the series Deeds in the Family

Date:	21 March 1907
Liber:	63
Page:	22
Location:	Wexford County, Michigan
Grantor:	Harry Taylor & Olive Taylor, his wife of Cedar Creek, Wexford, MI
Grantee:	Mrs. Bell Fellows, widow, of Liberty, Wexford, MI
Witnesses:	Lillian Kotts, Isaac Cw. Culer
Type of deed:	Warranty
Rec’d and recording:	6 April 1907
Clerk/registrar:	Elon A Losie
Location of land:	Cedar Creek Twp, Wexford Co., MI
Consideration:	$1,100
Notes:
Description:	NE 1/4 of NW 1/4 Sec 5 T23N R9W 40 acres

Henry Fellows died on 19 Sept 1905. I am not sure where in Liberty Township Belle was living, but Cedar Creek Township lies just south of Liberty and the property Belle purchased is on the township line. This thumbnail illustrates the property’s location, and is taken from the old 1908 on-line atlas.¹

Geo. A. Ogle & Co., Standard atlas of Wexford County, Michigan : including a plat book of the villages, cities and townships of the county…patrons directory, reference business directory…/ assisted in record work and platting by E. A. Losie. Geo. A. Ogle & Co. (Chicago, IL : Geo. A. Ogle & Co., 1908), page 45, The University of Michigan. Michigan County Histories and Atlases. http://name.umdl.umich.edu/3928168.0001.001 : accessed 2 November 2009.

Culer, Fellows, Kotts, Land Records, Losie, Taylor, Wexford Co MI

Fellows Family Land Records, Wexford County, Michigan Liber 54 page 359

March 9th, 2010 | Posted by Granny Pam in Papa's Ancestors - (0 Comments)

This entry is part 58 of 99 in the series Deeds in the Family

Date:	26 October 1903
Liber:	54
Page:	359
Location:	Wexford County, MI
Grantor:	Henry Fellows & wife Belle Fellows of Colfax, Wexford, Michigan
Grantee:	Elizabeth McClain of the same place
Witnesses:	Wm Jones, Isaac C. Wheeler
Type of deed:	Warranty
Rec’d and recording:	30 Oct 1903
Clerk/registrar:	Henry Hanson
Location of land:	Antioch Twp, Wexford Co., MI
Consideration:	$256
Notes:
Description:	W 1/2 of the NE 1/4 of the SE 1/4 Sec 15 T23NR11 W 20 Acres

I do not know how Belle and Henry acquired this land. I obviously have some work to do at the Wexford County Court House. I am planning two genealogy trips this sprint, and one is up to Wexford County. My list is getting longer. I do see the name Jones on the deed as a witness, a surname associated with Belle’s family. Belle’s mother was Miranda Jones, daughter of Robert and Savilla. It remains to be see if William Jones of Antioch Township, Michigan was related, or the name is a coincidence.

This map is taken from the old 1908 atlas of Wexford County¹. Elizabeth McClain is not listed as an owner in 1908. You can enlarge to see the detail, with the family of Geo Jones owning 40 acres which would encompass the 20 referred to in this deed.

Geo. A. Ogle & Co., Standard atlas of Wexford County, Michigan : including a plat book of the villages, cities and townships of the county…patrons directory, reference business directory…/ assisted in record work and platting by E. A. Losie. Geo. A. Ogle & Co. (Chicago, IL : Geo. A. Ogle & Co., 1908), page 45, The University of Michigan. Michigan County Histories and Atlases. http://name.umdl.umich.edu/3928168.0001.001 : accessed 2 November 2009.

Fellows, Jones, Land Records, McClain, Wexford Co MI

Fellows Family Land Records, Wexford County, Michigan Liber 54 Page 359

February 12th, 2010 | Posted by Granny Pam in Papa's Ancestors - (3 Comments)

This entry is part 89 of 99 in the series Deeds in the Family

Date:	29 October 1903
Liber:	54
Page:	359
Location:	Wexford County, MI
Grantor:	Henry Fellows and Belle Fellows his wife, of Colfax, Wexford, MI
Grantee:	Elizabeth McCain of the same place
Witnesses:	Wm Jones, Isaac C. Wheeler
Type of deed:	Warranty
Rec’d and recording:	30 October 1903
Clerk/registrar:	Henry Hanson
Location of land:	Antioch Twp., Wexford Co., MI
Consideration:	$256
Notes:	have no record of this purchase, need to research
Description:	W 1/2 of NE1/4 Sec 15 T23N R11W

It is too bad that I didn’t go through these records sooner after I abstracted them. The first record I have in Wexford County for Henry and Belle Fellows is a sale, not a purchase. I am going to have a long list of goals when I can visit the Wexford Court house again.

What I noticed when I located this land in the old 1889 Atlas¹ is that Merritt Winfield “Scott” Lamunion lived nearby; Scott was Belle Lamunion Fellows’ brother. You can see his name outlined in blue just below The red-outlined location of the purchase. Also, a Sylvester Gilbert owned 40 acres in the NW1/4 of the section; I also outlined that 40 acres in blue. One of the Fellows daughters married Charles Gilbert, who may have been connected with Sylvester. More investigation is required.

E.L. Hayes & Co., Atlas of Wexford County, Michigan / compiled by Eli L. Hayes from government surveys, county and township records, and personal investigations and observations , Eli L. Hayes, (Chicago, Ill.: E.L. Hayes & Co., 1889), page 37; digital images, The University of Michigan. Michigan County Histories and Atlases. http://name.umdl.umich.edu/3928170.0001.001 : accessed 2 November 2009.

Fellows, Lamunion, Land Records, Wexford Co MI

Fenton Family Land Records, Wexford County, Michigan Liber 134 page 347

February 5th, 2010 | Posted by Granny Pam in Papa's Ancestors - (0 Comments)

This entry is part 56 of 99 in the series Deeds in the Family

I am posting information gleaned from land records in the areas where our family’s ancestors resided. You can read more about this project in the overview. You may also check my deed record listing, which I will update frequently, but probably not every day. This group pertain to Papa’s Fenton ancestors who resided in Wexford County, Michigan.

Date:	2 April 1940
Liber:	134
Page:	347
Location:	Wexford County
Grantor:	Fred V. Jewell & wife Mamie Jewell of Wexford Township, Wexford County, MI
Grantee:	Frank & Lila Fellows of Mesick, MI
Witnesses:	John Sparling, Lloyd Spencer
Type of deed:	Warranty
Rec’d and recording:	2 April 1940
Clerk/registrar:	Johnson
Location of land:	Springville Township
Consideration:	$1 and other valuable consideration
Notes:
Description:	Lots 3,4,5,6,7,8,9 and 10, block 6, Crippens addition to the village of Sherman, MI

I located this land using the Michigan Subdivision map for Crippen Addition, Sherman, Michigan. Frank and Lila did not purchase the entire block, but the largest part of it.

Sherman is a very small town, after losing the battle to remain the county seat in Wexford County, it became smaller, not larger. The booming town described by the 1889 Atlas of Wexford County, and shown below, can hardly be imagined by looking at the current Satellite view from Google.

From the 1889 Atlas¹:

Today from Google:
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E.L. Hayes & Co., Atlas of Wexford County, Michigan / compiled by Eli L. Hayes from government surveys, county and township records, and personal investigations and observations , Eli L. Hayes, (Chicago, Ill.: E.L. Hayes & Co., 1889), 29; digital images, The University of Michigan. Michigan County Histories and Atlases. http://name.umdl.umich.edu/3928170.0001.001 : accessed 2 November 2009.

Fellows, Jewell, Land Records, Sparling, Spencer, Wexford Co MI