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

AURELIUS TOWNSHIP AND ITS HISTORY

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years he made potash and black salts, two articles used largely in
trade in early days.
Leonard Pratt owned 160 acres across the road from the ashery
now owned by Elmer Ellsworth.
E. M. Sanders, better known as Deacon Sanders, bought his
farm in 1857 of Mr. Hobert. He lived there until his death in
1902.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Edgar came from Ohio in 1862, and
bought the farm where they have since lived. Thomas Cook
took this land from the government. Mr. Edgar died in 1915,
and Mrs. Edgar lives on the old homestead with her youngest son
Claude and family.
Two of the pioneers of this district had large families; Mr. and
Mrs. Barnes had eleven children, and Mr. and Mrs. Slaght
eighteen.
It seems appropriate here to mention those of this district who
fought in the Civil War: Orrin Converse, Henry Converse, Myron
Davis, Corvis McIntyre, David Waggoner, Chauncy Slaght,
Rosell Sanders, Wm. Austin.
David Waggoner and Henry Converse died on a Southern battlefield. Orrin Converse dropped dead in his door yard while home
on a furlough.
Two boys from this district entered service in the World War.
Lynn Grinnell enlisted in an aviation corps, and was at Rockway
Beach, New York City, when the armistice was signed.
Lucius Warner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Warner, entered
service June 25, 1918, and made the supreme sacrifice, being killed
in action in the Argonne Forest, France, on Oct. 14, 1918. His
body was sent to his home where he was given a military funeral
in the fall of 1921, and buried in Maple Grove Cemetery at Mason.
Along the first mile of the highway running west from the
present school house there has not been a real estate transfer outside some members of the families residing there in 54 years.
Nearly all the early settlers of this district are now lying in
the Aurelius Cemetery.