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 with each post.
This deed once again involves Daniel Kaiser, my second great grand-uncle, who was a brother of my great grandfather, William Kaiser
Date: | 7 May 1885 |
Liber: | 14 |
Page: | 133 |
Location: | Calhoun County, Michigan |
Grantor: | William L. Hollister and Maria A. Hollister his wife, of Battle Creek, Calhoun Co., MI |
Grantee: | Daniel Kaiser of Clam Lake Twp. Wexford Co., MI |
Witnesses: | Illegible, but resided in Calhoun County. |
Type of deed: | Warranty |
Rec’d and recording: | 24 June 1885 |
Clerk/registrar: | Geo A. Currier |
Location of land: | Clam Lake, Wexford County, Michigan |
Consideration: | $1250 |
Notes: | |
Description: | N1/2 of the SE1/4 of Sec 26 T21N R9W |
This 80 acres is probably the place that my grandmother remembered the Kaisers living. It certainly is not on Whaley Road, but one might drive on Whaley Road, and others, to reach it. Here it is on the 1889 Atlas:
This Google map shows the location today:
View Daniel Kaiser Home in a larger map
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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), page 15; digital images, The University of Michigan. Michigan County Histories and Atlases. http://name.umdl.umich.edu/3928170.0001.001 : accessed 18 April 2011.