Person:John McKelvey (6)

_DCAUSE: Heart disease Date: 19 AUG 1893 Place: Ionia, Michigan, USA Source: Page: p. 124-125 Scroll down from http://books.google.com/books?id=K5gUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA121&vq=mckelvey&dq=%2B%22mckelvey%22%2Bionia&source=gbs_search_s Data: Text: heart disease For 60 years he had been a prominent figure in and about Ionia county having settled in Lyons township in 1833 and had many friends He was born October 15 1816 at Albany NY He moved with friends who were farmers to Rochester when 3 years old moving thence to Michigan in 1833 settling in Oakland county He remained there 8 years after which be moved into Lyons township where he has resided ever since He never attended school but was educated by a private tutor He engaged in farming and began the study of law when ... Quality: 3

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Ancestry.com. 1860 United States Federal Census (2). (Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;)
   Database online. North Plains, Ionia, Michigan, post office North Plains, roll M653_546, page 0, image 84.

   Record for John McKelvey

2. ↑ Elam Branch. History of Ionia County, Michigan: Her People, Industries and Institutions, with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Genealo. (Name: B.F. Bowen & Co.; Date: 1916;)
   p. 303 http://books.google.com/books?id=yz4VAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA303&dq=%2B%22mckelvey%22%2Bionia&ei=uoDYSJHkL5S4yQTdvujrDg#PPA303,M1.

   On October 15 1873 Marcellus J Allen was united in marriage to Susan S Morrison who was Ixjrn on a farm in what is now South Ionia March 14 1844 daughter of John E and Eliza McKelvey Morrison both natives of New York state and pioneers of this county who spent their last days here the former dying at the age of eighty and the latter at the age of seventy six John E Morrison was the youngest of five children of Joseph Morrison a soldier of the American Revolution and wife the others having been Joseph Anna Susanna and Edward Joseph Morrison was a prominent resident of Elmira New York where he and his wife spent their last days Grandfather McKelvey and wife were among the earliest residents of Ionia county having settled here about six months after the coming of the Dexter colony the first recorded settlers Among their children who grew to maturity here were John Eliza Catherine and Elizabeth John E Morrison and wife were the parents of eight children George who died during his service as a Union soldier in the Civil War Joseph Myra John Susan S Mary Anna and Charles Susan S Morrison received her education in the Ionia schools and was a public school teacher at the time of her to Mr Allen

3. ↑ Ionia County Michigan Genweb. (Location: http://ionia.migenweb.net;)
   Obituaries of Ionia County http://ionia.migenweb.net/obits/obits-m.html.

   Posted By: LaVonne I. Bennett Date: Thursday, 12 August 2004, at 3:26 p.m. THE IONIA SENTINEL, MICH.; November 4, 1886: "Sarah McKelvey, wife of John McKelvey of North Plains township, died at her home on Monday evening at 8 o'clock, from the effects of an injury received (some?) weeks ago in a runaway accident. The deceased lady leaves her husband, whose pathway through life she has shared and lightened for forty-three years, and one son to mourn her loss. A host of friends whom she was ever ready to make welcome at her fireside and who have so often partaken of her kindly hospitality will sympathize with those whose hearts are made so desolute today by the loss of wife and mother. The funeral occurred on Wednesday afternoon at one o'clock, at the family residence on North Plains."

4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Federal Census (2). (Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2005;)
   Database online. North Plains, Ionia, Michigan, roll M432_352, page 160, image 76.

   Record for John McCalvey

5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6} Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society. Historical Collections. (Date: 1896;)
   p. 124-125 Scroll down from http://books.google.com/books?id=K5gUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA121&vq=mckelvey&dq=%2B%22mckelvey%22%2Bionia&source=gbs_search_s.

   heart disease For 60 years he had been a prominent figure in and about Ionia county having settled in Lyons township in 1833 and had many friends He was born October 15 1816 at Albany NY He moved with friends who were farmers to Rochester when 3 years old moving thence to Michigan in 1833 settling in Oakland county He remained there 8 years after which be moved into Lyons township where he has resided ever since He never attended school but was educated by a private tutor He engaged in farming and began the study of law when ...

6. ↑ ^6.0 6.1 Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society. Historical Collections. (Date: 1896;)
   p. 121 http://books.google.com/books?id=K5gUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA121&dq=%2B%22mckelvey%22%2Bionia&ei=uoDYSJHkL5S4yQTdvujrDg.

   Name Came to Michigan Place of death Date of death Age John McKelvey 1833 Ionia Ang 19 1893 77

7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3} History of Ionia County, Michigan. (Name: Published by B.F. Bowen & Co.; Date: 1916;)
   http://books.google.com/books?id=pfoBfEoLRrgC&pg=PA146&lpg=PA146&dq=%22john+mckelvey%22+michigan+settler&source=web&ots=skXxab3sBP&sig=lMRbTPO6znayaghWz0tnBq3F9F4&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result.

   John McKelvey came to Michigan in 1834 with his father who located near Lyons in that year and put in what is said to have been the first wheat sown in Ionia county John the son made a settlement in North Plains in 1842 and for many years has divided his time between farming and law practice Mr McKelvey enjoys the double distinction of having brought the first threshing machine into the Grand River valley in the year 1838 a special journey having been made for it to Rochester New York an4 the first lot of civilized hogs as well

8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3} Jackson D. Dillenback. History and Directory of Ionia County, Michigan: Containing a History of Each Township: the Name, Occupation, Location, and Post-office Addres. (Name: J.D. Dillenback; Date: 1872;)
   p. 56 http://books.google.com/books?id=NUUVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA165&dq=%2B%22mckelvey%22%2Bionia&ei=uoDYSJHkL5S4yQTdvujrDg#PPA56,M1.

   John McKelvey came to Lyons with his father January 10th 1834 His father settled on the old McKelvey farm near Lyons in 1834 and sowed the first wheat ever sowed in Ionia County John settled first in the town of North Plains in the year 1843 made some changes in the next few years and finally settled on section thirty where he still lives He has carried on a farm and practiced law ever since he first settled in the town