Owosso Michigan History: Alfred & Benjamin Williams Family Genealogy Lot 1 for Sale

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Owosso Michigan History: Alfred & Benjamin Williams Family Genealogy Lot 1 For Sale

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Owosso Michigan History: Alfred & Benjamin Williams Family Genealogy Lot 1:
$202.12

ACCEPTABLE OR BETTER CONDITION. READ ENTIRE TITLE & DESCRIPTION AND VIEW ALL PHOTOS, ITEMS ARE CONSIDERED PRE-OWNED.

I received many items from the Welch family estate in Raleigh North Carolina. The family have descendants of Owosso Michigan and its founders the Williams Brothers. I will have several items of ( Alfred Leonzo A.L. & Benjamin Oliver B.O. ) their provenance going back to the mid 1800s. The family was also related to E.O. Edmund Otis Dewey, the brother of Thomas Dewey, who almost defeated President Harry Truman in the election after World War II.

ITEM : Owosso Michigan History: Alfred & Benjamin Williams Family Genealogy Lot 1 of 6… included in this lot is as follows:

— an envelope addressed to Harriet Williams (AL’s spouse), beautiful calligraphy with an address of Owasso Shiawassee County Michigan. It has a postmark from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania dated April 23. most likely during the Civil War. As the stamp is a Scott number 65 three cent, which was placed in service in 1861.

— an envelope dated 1879 with a Washington three cents stamp. It is addressed to Mrs. AL Williams and it has two postmarks is canceled in New York City on October 29. Any other is canceled in Owasso on October 31 Halloween… which is awesome!

— A letter and envelope written by Harriet Williams while in New York to her children in January 1884. It is addressed to Henrietta Ettie Williams, one of her daughters… includes the number 1 over the Washington two cents stamp.

— Signed power of attorney document of Alfred Williams to his wife Harriet Williams. It is dated June 31, 1871. Some of the writing is very faint on the top half of the document… the signatures / autographs are quite bold on the document including that of William Marvin Kilpatrick and Newton McBain… proprietor of the local General Store. Years later, he would become postmaster for the town.

… William Marvin Kilpatrick ( SIGNED 2x as Notary Public ) Born on Christmas day in 1840 to Jesse Kilpatrick Jr. and Catherine Seamans in Middlesex, Yates county NY. He was married three times. His first wife was Mary Caroline Williams, married on Dec. 31, 1868. It appears from the records that Mary gave birth to William C. on October 4th, 1869 and three days later, on October 7th William lost both his wife and his son.

William married a second time on June 10th, 1873 to Emily Harriet Williams who was the cousin of his first wife. b.10/2/1842, d. 7/22/1880. She was the Mother to William Duncan Kilpatrick b. April 3, 1874. Mary Kilpatrick b. Jan. 1876 and Florence May Kilpatrick b. March 12,1879.

After the death of Harriet, William married his third wife on June 30,1897. Mana Ruckle Needles (b.12/7/1867 d.1/29/1932) They had two daughters together, Katherine Eva b.4/14/1899 and Mana Frances (young) b. 2/17/1900 d. 9/18/1928.

Willam graduated from the University of Michigan law department in 1866. In 1869 he was appointed City Attorney for the town of Owosso MI. He was elected Supervisor at Large in 1873 which he held until the year 1875 when he was elected mayor and served one term. In 1876 he was again elected Supervisor at Large and later in the same year to the office of Prosecuting Attorney for Shiawassi County. He remained at this position until Nov. of 1880 when he was elected State Senator. He was Chairman of the Republican County Committee from 1872 to 1894, with the exception of 1884, 1885 and 1892. He was again elected State Senator in 1895 and was the President of the Owosso School Board for thirteen years.

The reverse side of this power of attorney has several registers office remarks for the deed. Several signatures on that side include Registrar’s of different Michigan counties are A. Bacon, T.A. Delzell, C.C. Casterhis Charles Holman and Albert Yaeger.

The document also includes a 50 Cent revenant of George Washington as well as a pressed/raised seal from Saginaw county Michigan, the final record of this document in 1898.

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