George Sewlyn FARWELL

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• Census: 1880, Living with parents in Dowagiac, Cass Co., Michigan
• Census: 1900, Living in Benton Harbor, Berrien Co, Michigan
• Census: 1910, Living in Muskegon, Muskegon Co., Michigan
• Census: 1920, Living in Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois
• Census: 1930, Living with son, Claude, in Benton harbor, Berrien Co., Michigan

George married Daisy Agnes FITCH on 6 May 1894 in Dowagiac, Cass Co., Michigan. Daisy was born on 8 Jul 1877 in Muskegon, Michigan; died on 17 Jan 1955; was buried on 19 Jan 1955 in Crystal Springs Cemetery, Benton, Berrien Co., Michigan . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Melba Nellie FARWELL was born on 9 Nov 1895 in Michigan; died on 3 May 1923 in Muskegon, Muskegon Co., Michigan; was buried on 4 May 1923.
2. Rex Navarre FARWELL was born on 19 Nov 1897 in Michigan; died on 18 Jun 1960; was buried in Crystal Springs Cemetery, Benton, Berrien Co., Michigan .
3. Claude Fitch FARWELL was born on 23 Mar 1900 in Michigan; died on 9 Oct 1962; was buried in Calvary Cemetery, Benton, Berrien Co., Michigan.
4. Martha Rix FARWELL was born on 11 Sep 1919 in Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois; died on 2 May 2000.

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• Census: 1880, Living in Dowagiac, Cass Co., Michigan

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He was a farmer, first in Yates, NY, then in Hartland NY, but the farm not proving as was expected he sold out and removed to Jeddo, NY. In 1874 he removed to Dowagiac, Mich., and bought a farm just out of the city and sold out in a few years and bought one in Glenwood, about ten miles east of Dowagiac, on the Michigan Central Railroad. Here in the spring of 1892 his wife was taken sick, and to be near a physician they removed temporarily to Dowagiac, but near her last days she said she wished to die at her own home and was taken there. In June of the year in which she dies Minnie Rix, her niece, and daughter of her bother Guy S., left Concord at a few hours' notice for Dowagiac to are for her aunt Martha, and stayed and cared for her until her death, and was alone with her when she died, here husband being called away on business, none thinking her death was so near.

Mr. Farwell enlisted Aug. 22, 1962, in Co. A, 129th NY Inft.; discharged for disability June 19, 18963. While on the farm in Dowagiac he worked occasionally in a stove foundry and shop and received an injury by the bursting of an emery wheel, which it is thought caused insanity after a few years. The death of his wife broke him all up, and disposing of every piece of property he had he went east to visit his brother-in-law Guy S. Rix, in Concord, NH. It was soon discovered he was deranged, he was sent back to Michigan and in a few days he was taken to the Insane Asylum at Kalamazoo, where he died in 1899.

The Compiler became acquainted with Mr. Farwell while in the army, where they bunked together, and were as brothers, as it proved to be a fact afterwards, and there is no man living whom he loved with a deeper, brotherly love than he had for Henry A. Farwell. Mr. Farwell was known and recognized in the community in which he lived as a kind, affectionate husabnd and father, a good neighbor and an upright citizen.

Henry married Martha Rebecca RIX on 11 Apr 1866. Martha (daughter of Guy Carlton RIX and Martha GATES) was born on 16 Jan 1841 in Barnston, Canada; died on 30 Sep 1892 in Glenwood, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1850, Living with parents in Ridgeway, Orleans Co., New York
• Census: 1860, Living with parents in Manchester, Washtenaw Co., Michigan
• Census: 1880, Living with husband in Dowagiac, Cass Co., Michigan