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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married Freeman G. Pray, of Dimondale, now lives in Jonesville,
Hillsdale county, Mich.
Almond Denslow Aldrich, Jr., first married Amelia Ann Cornwell, of Delhi. Two children were born to them: Alma Irene, born
July 5, 1870, single and living in Newaygo, Mich. Claude Denslow
Aldrich, born Jan. 29, 1877, in Onondaga, Ingham county, now
postmaster at East Lansing, Mich. Almond D. Aldrich, Jr., was
married the second time to Hattie Welch, of Delhi, June 28, 1894.
Two children were born: Maude Adelaide, died when a few months
old; Ada Harriet, born June 3, 1905, in Delhi. Almond D.
Aldrich, Jr., died August 25, 1913, at Holt.
Ann Eliza was married to William Adelbert Melton July 3, 1870.
Three children were born to them: Eliza Myrtle, born September
14, 1871, and died April 14, 1874; Addie May, born September 21,
1873, married September 20, 1898, to Louis Kyle Politte, of California, died at her home in Fernando, Calif, on March 8, 1902.
Grace Aldrich Melton was born June 3, 1878, married June 21,
1899, to Burt Leland Green, of Mason, Mich. They have two
boys, Leland Melton and Ferris Kyle, both in school.*
Nathan Aldrich was married to Rosaltha Thompson in Delhi in
1875, and died in July, 1880.
A. D. Aldrich, the father and pioneer settler, was a staunch Democrat. He was a great lover of good horses, and owned at one
time eighteen. He loved to hunt and it took a lively man to keep
up with him in the woods, but as well as he loved the sport he
never neglected his work for the pleasure of hunting. He was
known as a good farmer and believed in doing his work in the very
best way. One of his sayings was, "a thing that is worth doing at
all is worth doing well."
I have him to thank for knowing how to sweep and hold my
broom so it will wear straight. In the log house with the fireplace and big brick hearth, it was his delight to see it swept clean,
and I, a little girl, was shown how to sweep that hearth by my
father.
In our day we know but little of the hardships endured by the
early pioneers. A. D. Aldrich and wife, my father and mother,
journeyed to Michigan in the fall of 1844, bringing their two children, one an infant only eighteen months old, with them in an
open wagon. They settled in the wilderness, as their friends back