Pioneer history of Ingham County, compiled and arranged by Mrs. Franc L. Adams, secretary of the Ingham County pioneer and historical society.

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and his kindly interest in everything about him remained strong
until within a few days of his death. The end came Oct. 31, 1915,
at his home in Charlotte where he had lived for the last six years.
IIe often spoke of the marvelous changes which he had seen
take place in this part of Michigan since he arrived here a small
boy with his parents in a wilderness full of Indians and wild
beasts. He was a member of the Ingham County Historical and
Pioneer Society, a faithful attendant at the meetings and one
much interested in the work it was doing.
Lewis Stanton was a man of sterling integrity, a devout Christian, hospitable and generous to a fault, always eager to do others
a service, and wherever he lived he was respected and honored
by a wide circle of friends. Throughout life he fulfilled the spirit
of this sentiment:
"I live for those that love me, for those that know me true
For the Heaven that smiles above me, and waits my coming, too.
For the cause that lacks assistance, for the wrongs that need
resistance,
For the future in the distance, and the good that I can do."
INGHAM COUNTY PIONEERS MARRIED FIFTY-EIGHT
YEARS RECALL EARLY DAYS.
The State Journal-1919.
MASON, April 9.-Mr. and Mrs. James Steinhoff, of Alaiedon
Township, have just celebrated their fifty-eighth wedding anniversary at the home of their daughter, Mrs. Bert Baldwin, of
Mason, where they are staying for a few weeks, having recently
sold the farm where they located 55 years ago. There, on the 80
acres, taken up from the government, they settled in a little log
shack, coming from Jackson county, where Mrs. Steinhoff had
lived as a girl, and taught school, getting ten shillings a week, and
boarding round. Big oak trees were chopped down and piled
and burned to make way for the little cabin, and the surrounding
clearing.
Mr. Steinhoff states that his first field of corn was put in by
using an old ax to break open a bit of soil, while his wife following