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

ALAIEDON TOWNSHIP AND ITS HISTORY

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and the first township meeting was directed to be held at the
school house at the City of Jefferson. From the territory thus
have since been organized the townships of Delhi, Lansing and
Meridian, leaving Alaiedon to include township 3 north in range 1
west.
At the first town meeting there were fifteen votes cast. The
first school at Jefferson village was taught by Mary Ann Rolfe in
a log school house which was built in the summer of 1837. On
Oct. 3, 1839, District No. 1 reported 26 pupils.
My sister, Mrs. Adelaide Jones, of Jonesville, Mich., being
several years older than I, of course could remember farther back
than I could, so I wrote to her for information about Jefferson
City. She wrote me all she could remember, and that she had
heard our mother tell.
They told this story: "One day a man rode into the place on
horseback and said, 'we are going to have a Fourth of July celebration and want every man, woman and child to be sure and
come to Jefferson City.' There were very few horses in the locality then, and my sister remembers going to the celebration and
riding after the ox team; she also remembers seeing our mother
marching in the procession and has an idea of the dress she wore,
of course it was one she had brought from the east two years before, when she came in as a pioneer. They came in 1845, making
the celebration an event of 1847. I have often heard my mother
tell of Mrs. William Long, who lived where Holt is now, borrowing
two sunbonnets which my mother and sister wore when they came
from York State, for her two girls to wear to the Fourth of July
celebration at Jefferson City. No doubt it was the same year,
for I never heard of but one celebration being held at Jefferson
City.
"School records were not very accurately kept, nor were they
always saved in early days, otherwise I might have had a more
complete record."
A history of District No. 2, known as the Robbins school, was
read by Mrs. Clair Wilkins as follows:
Little do we know, as we sit in our comfortable homes or ride in
our automobiles, of the men and women who helped to make the
land what is. We cannot realize the hardships that they endured,