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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PIONEER HISTORY OF INGIIAM COUNTY

inhuman Huns were sinking our ships her boys went across the
Atlantic and helped lay the German tyrant low.
There are six churches and five cemeteries in Bunkerhill-the
Felt, Catholic, Reeves, Fitchburg and Bunkerhill Center.
The school districts of the township are known as the Felt,
Laberteaux, Fitchburg, Bunkerhill, Birney, Reeves, Bachelor
and the Catholic school. In 1845 school district No. 6, Bunkerhill, was organized, and Miss Ellen Angell taught the first term in a
granary in the northwest part of section 13. This was owned by
B. M. Regnold, and it accommodated fifteen pupils that term.
The families in the district were B. M. Regnold, John DeCamp,
Daniel H. Beers, Wm. Angell, Jerry DeCamp, Charles and Jonathan Wood.
The second term was taught by Miss Louise Beers in a log
building in the northwest part of section 16. The next teacher
was Miss Amanda Hart, followed by Miss Hannah Lord, the only
one of those early teachers alive in 1920.
A school house was built in the northeast corner of the southeast
quarter of section 16 in 1849, and the first teachers were Miss Adda
Clark and Miss Emma Reynolds. That school house burned in
1860, and school was taught in a part of G. P. Bailey's house.
Later another school house was built, and the following teachers
have been associated with it: a man named Trask, John May,
John Whallon, Rose Schofield, Flora Maxson, Miss Cramer, Laura
Knauf, Hattie Maxson, J. E. Titus, Earl Cronkite, Hattie Welch,
Bell Proctor, Sarah McKnight, Carrie Haan, Maggie Marks,
Rosa Winters, May O'Brien, Orla Garrison, Frank Murray, Joe
Morrison, Orson Garrison, Anna McKinder, Laura McKinder,
Pearl Ferris, Bessie Elliott, Lyle DeCamp, Miss Latter and Ethel
Row.
MARTIN DUBOIS.
The first grave of a Revolutionary soldier to be located and
marked in Ingham county was that of Martin Dubois, who laid in
an unmarked grave in what is known as the Dean or Fitchburg
Cemetery, in Bunkerhill Township.
Elijah Grout Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution,
of Leslie, have the honor of finding this grave and placing on it a