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

CHAPTER X.
LEROY TOWNSHIP.
History by Dr. F. N. Turner; Gillett Jones; Dana family; Rix family; story by
Mrs. Nancy Meach; Webberville.
One of the old settlers told me the following story about the
name of this township. A friend or relative of his who had emigrated to this section of Ingham county when Michigan was a
territory, wrote his address Brutus, Ingham county, Territory of
Michigan. This post office was located at Podunk. Locke and
Leroy were combined and this post office served both. After
Michigan became a state this territory was divided, the north
half named Locke Township and the south half Leroy Township
after Daniel LeRoy, the first Attorney General of the new state.
Hon. Lawton T. Hemans once when visiting the village and school
in Webberville, told the board, of which I was a member, that he
would present the school with a picture of the above official, the
godfather of the township.
The first settler in the township was Ephraim Meech, who moved
into the township in 1838. His farm was in the southwestern
part of the township, at that time a wilderness inhabited by deer,
wolves and other wild animals. Today you will find a school
house in that section that bears his name.
The farm was just east of this school house.
In 1838 James Rosencrans, from Ohio, Orren Dana, from Genesee county, Michigan, and Henry Lee settled in the western part
of the township. In one or two years David Wilcox, Leo and
George Rouse, Richard Putman, Oliver Geer, Daniel Knapp,
A. F. Horton, Harley Bement, Calvin Wilson and Hiram Rix had
also settled in the western section. This part was settled first
because the Kalamink Creek, the outlet of Mud Lake in White
Oak, traversed the middle of the township emptying into Red
Cedar river on the north township line.
This stream topographically divided the township into two
parts. The course of the creek was through a low tamarack