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

DELHI TOWNSIIP AND ITS HISTORY

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William Cook, who with his wife and family had four years previously come to Michigan and settled on section 23, Delhi Township, in Ingham county.
Soon after John and Robert Thorburn reached Delhi John took
up forty acres adjoining Mr. Cook, on the south, and here during
the winter following they chopped off four or five acres of timber
and erected a log house in preparation for the father and mother
who were to arrive in the following spring.
The father and mother, James and Christina Boe Thorburn,
reached Delhi in the summer of 1849 and settled in the new house
the boys had built the previous winter. Their children were
John and Robert, who preceded them to Delhi, James, Jr., and
one daughter, Jane, who married William Somerville in Scotland.
James, Jr., and Marian, his wife, came with their family to this
country in 1855 and settled on 120 acres of land on section 23,
Delhi. The same year Jane and her husband, William Somerville,
came to Michigan and settled on a forty acre farm adjoining James
Thorburn on the south. Robert took up a claim in Gratiot
county, where he raised a family of four boys and two girls.
He died early in life leaving his wife with six children, who were
looked after by the grandfather, James Thorburn, Sr., and soon
were moved to Ingham county and located on an eighty acre
farm on section 27, Delhi, which one of these boys still owns.
The mother is best known among her friends as Aunt Jane Mallory. Her sons, James, Robert. John D., Thomas Martin, are
all much respected residents of Holt. William is a resident of
Lansing. One daughter, Christina, married Matthew Cook, of
Holt, and is the mother of two girls, Mettie and Inez. Mr. Cook
died young. Jane Ann married Byron Wilcox and to this union
four sons were born, George, Raymond, Bert and Chester.
On Jan. 26, 1854, John Thorburn was married to Hannah Jane
Olds, of Lansing. This union was blessed with three sons, James
Boe, William Warren, and Robert Clark. James Boe married
Louisa Mary, daughter of Casper and Catherine Lott, of Delhi,
Dec. 23, 1874, and two daughters, Rose Bell, born Oct. 6, 1875,
and Nettie May, born May 22, 1880, with one son, John Royal E.,
born Dec. 2, 1883 (died Dec. 13, 1912), came to bless this home.
Nettie May married Rev. Cecil Everett Pollok, Oct. 6, 1903.