Abbie Augusta JONES

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• Census: 1860, Living with parents in Tecumseh, Lenawee Co., Michigan
• Census: 1870, Living with parents in Tecumseh, Lenawee Co., Michigan
• Census: 1880, Living with husband in Lansing, Ingham Co., Michigan
• Census: 1900, Living with husband in Meyer, Menominee Co., Michigan
• Census: 1930, Living with sister, Anna Blackburn, in Albion, Calhoum Co., Michigan

Abbie married Alvin DINGMAN on 5 Jan 1876. Alvin was born in 1850 in New York; died on 28 Apr 1886 in Lansing, Ingham Co., Michigan; was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Lansing, Ingham Co., Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Abbie married Wallace M. GILLETTE on 14 Feb 1888. Wallace was born in Feb 1859 in New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1850, Living in Hartland, Niagara Co., New York
• Census: 1860, Living in Tecumseh, Lenawee Co., Michigan
• Census: 1870, Living in Tecumseh, Lenawee Co., Michigan

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From a young man up to the time of his marriage he was a driver for a packet line on the Erie Canal between Rochester and buffalo, long before railroads were hardly thought of.

When about six years of age his mother was murdered in Brockport, NY where they lived, and soon after his father showed signs of mental derangement. At one time he set out with a younger sister of Bradford's to visit an aunt a few miles away. The country was then a wilderness, and whether they were lost on the way and perished from hunger and exposure, or were devoured by wild beasts, was never known, as they were never heard from afterwards. They settled in Middleport, NY, where thee children were born, and in 1851 he removed to Tecumseh, Mich., where the other children were born. He finally removed to Albion, Mich., where his daughters had established themselves in the millinery business. Mr. jones was a soldier in the war of the rebellion in 1861-65; was in a Michigan regiment.

Bradford married Caroline RIX on 30 Dec 1845 in Holly, New York. Caroline (daughter of Guy Carlton RIX and Martha GATES) was born on 16 Dec 1826 in Littleton, Grafton Co., New Hampshire; died on 10 Apr 1896 in Albion, Michigan; was buried in Brookside Cemetery, Tecumseh, Lenawee Co., Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1850, Living with husband in Hartland, Niagara Co., New York
• Census: 1860, Living with husband in Tecumseh, Lenawee Co., Michigan
• Census: 1870, Living with husband in Tecumseh, Lenawee Co., Michigan
• Census: 1880, Living in Tecumseh, Lenawee Co., Michigan

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• Fact: Son of Nathaniel Rix and Rebecca Eastman
• Census: 1850, Living in Ridgeway, Orleans Co., New York
• Occupation: 1850, Blacksmith
• Census: 1860, Living in Manchester, Washtenaw Co., Michigan
• Census: 1870, Living in Ridgeway, Orleans Co., New York

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Mr. Rix like most young men was brought up on a farm, and in the ordinary acceptance of that term was not liberally educated, though he supplemented by careful study and voluminous reading and research education which the common schools afforded. To a strongly practical training he added by his own exertions unusual literary culture, acquiring among his other accomplishments an almost irresistible fascination for studying the classics. he had a very retentive memory, and could quote pages of almost all the works of which he was familiar.

In his early life he learned the trade of edge-tool making, and proved to be a skillful workman. He taught school nineteen winters, and while teaching in Barnston, Canada, in the winter of 1835, he moved his family there, and after his school closed, he removed to Compton in the same county, and went to work at his trade. The Canadian Rebellion breaking out in the winter of 1836-7, he returned to Littleton, N.H., and after the rebellion was crushed, he returned to Canada and located at king's Croft, in Barnston, and entered into business on his own account. His business here not proving so favorably as he had wished, he returned to the States and located in Rumney, N.H., where he built up a good business, but a financial panic coming on, he met with reverse of fortune, and removed to western Ne York, landing at Hartland, Niagara County, in June, 1844. In the fall of this year removed to Middleport, Oleans County, ten miles away, and in the fall of 1846, he removed to Jeddo, a little village in Orleans County, about five miles from Middleport. Here he did business on his own account till 1851, when he removed to Michigan, locating at Manchester. In 1864, while his son, Guy S., was in the hospital in Washington, with his eg amputated, his wife there taking care of him, Mr. Rix and wife returned to Jeddo especially to care for Guy's children, and remained until 1870, when they returned to Michigan and located in Dowagiac, where their son Thomas resided. Here they remained until death. he was lame from boyhood, caused by his hip being put out of joint, and never being set.

My father had weaknesses (and who of us do not possess many), but I am proud to say that he was a kind-hearted man, an exceedingly generous one - a man who never turned the distressed and disconsolate from his door, but prompt to act in their behalf. Although not an open worshiper of the Great Architect of nature - in fact, to the uninitiated he was completely the reverse in some respects, for which I pardon him through extenuating circumstances - yet his heat beat with almost the tenderness my deae mother possessed, and however rough his expressions, by many misjudged I Know he inwardly worshiped the Great Artificer at nature's shrine, and I hope to meet them both in the happy hunting grounds of that undiscovered country from which no traveler returns.

Guy married Martha GATES on 4 Jan 1826 in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. Martha (daughter of Thomas GATES, Sr. and Patty PLUMLY) was born on 5 Mar 1807 in Acworth, Sullivan Co., New Hampshire; died on 28 Apr 1892 in Dowagiac, Cass Co., Michigan; was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Dowagiac, Cass Co., Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Birth: 10 Aug 1807, St. Johnsbury, Vermont
• Census: 1850, Living with husband in Ridgeway, Orleans Co., New York
• Census: 1860, Living with husband in Manchester, Washtenaw Co., Michigan
• Census: 1870, Living with husband in Ridgeway, Orleans Co., New York
• Census: 1880, Living with daughter, Martha Farwell, in Dowagiac, Cass Co., Michigan

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• Census: 1850, Living with daughter, Lucinda Bingham, in Weber Co., Utah Territory

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Comments: In 1835 in Kirtland, Thomas was assistant president of the Deacon's quorum. He was called in 1835 in Kirtland to testify to the truthfulness of the soon-to-be published D&C. Comments: 2 On March 7, 1835, Thomas received many blessings for his efforts in building the Kirtland Temple. On August 17, 1835 the D&C was presented to general assembly. Due to the crowds, several men were assigned as presidents of the day. Thomas was chosen as one of these men to keep order in the assembly. Thomas bore record of the truthfulness of the D&C and acknowledged it as scripture in the church in front of the congregation. Thomas also made a covenant to help move the saints from Missouri on January 29, 1839 in Far West.

Thomas married Patty PLUMLY in 1796. Patty (daughter of John PLUMLEY and Susannah CLAYTON) was born on 27 Aug 1776 in Acworth, Sullivan Co., New Hampshire; died on 18 Sep 1845 in Nauvoo, Hancock Co., Illinois; was buried in Old Nauvoo Burial Grounds, Nauvoo, Hancock Co., Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]