Melba Nellie FARWELL

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• Census: 1900, Living with parents in Benton Harbor, Berrien Co., Michigan
• Census: 1910, Living with parents in Muskegon, Muskegon Co., Michigan
• Census: 1920, Living with husband in Muskegon, Muskegon Co., Michigan

Melba married Mortimer William AVERILL on 1 Mar 1916 in Muskegon, Michigan. Mortimer was born on 31 Jul 1893 in Muskegon, Michigan; died on 30 Apr 1923 in Muskegon, Muskegon Co., Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. William Mortimer AVERILL
2. Gloria AVERILL

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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]

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• Fact: Daughter of Lewey Nelson Fitch and Anna McNally
• Census: 1900, Living with husband in Benton Harbor, Berrien Co., Michigan
• Census: 1910, Living with husband in Muskegon, Muskegon Co., Michigan
• Census: 1920, Living with husband in Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois
• Census: 1930, Living with son, Claude, in Benton harbor, Berrien Co., Michigan

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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

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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