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 INGHAM COUNTY

ished. The only style about them was pioneer style, but they
answered the purpose of keeping people warm, and the boys and
girls who wore them were just as likely to become reliable men and
women as if their fathers had been millionaires.
Grandfather came here in 1837 and died in 1844. His sons,
except Steven, the youngest, lived to be quite old. Asa, the oldest of the family, outlived all the others and died in 1885. The
members of the Dubois family are quite well scattered throughout
the United States, and the name is one quite frequently seen and
heard. In 1855 my father moved from Alaiedon to Bunkerhill
Township, on what is known as Felt's Plains. He bought 160
acres of unimproved land, and he immediately cleared a plat of
ground and erected a shanty as a temporary home, and later built
a substantial farm house, which is still standing and in which may
be seen the four bedsteads made at an early day.
Among the early school teachers of which I know were the following: Jane Horton, Samuel Dubois, Mary Obear, Fanny
Longyear, Elizabeth Miller, Miranda Spaulding, Miss Stranahan,
Emeline Harkness, Jane Eaton, Louise Cooper, she was supposed
to be something unusual as a teacher, and commanded the sum of
fifteen dollars a month, Olivia Knapp and Marianne Dubois.
One teacher in the days of big bustles found difficulty in sitting
in the chair at the school house, but she invented a way to overcome this, for she quietly removed two slats or rounds from the
back, and made place to let the bustle through.
A TRIBUTE TO MISS ADELIA DUBOIS.
Written by Mrs. Franc L. Adams, Secretary of the Ingham
County Historical and Pioneer Society, and read at the annual
meeting held in Stockbridge, 1918, by Mrs. Lowell L. Dubois, of
Mason.
"When Memory opens her golden gates
And the misty past unfurls,
How gladly we hear familiar names,
Like echoes from other worlds."
The name of Miss Adelia Dubois, whose death occurred a few