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

LEROY TOWNSHIP AND ITS HISTORY

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cents a week payable in township orders. It might be interesting
to know what books we studied at that time. I can truthfully
say our supply was limited. I had a spelling book, Warren Coleman had a law book, Sylvester Starks had an old English reader,
my brother had a history of the Bible, and William Rowley had
an arithmetic.
I will close and write you more about this in the near future.
EDWIN L. DANA,
Leroy, Ingham Co., Mich.,
December 26, 1906.
(This was compiled from original notes by Dr. F. N. Turner,
200/ E. Franklin St., Lansing, Mich.)
HIRAM RIX.
Hiram Rix, Sr., was born in Canada December 16, 1811, and
his wife, Emily Osborne Rix, was born in New York December 15,
1818. They were married in Genesee county, New York, December 23, 1836. They came to Michigan in 1837 and settled on 80
acres of unimproved land in Livingston county, where they lived
three years. In 1842 they came into Ingham county, buying 80
acres on section 8, in Leroy Township, which had a small clearing
and log house. They lived in Washtenaw county for a while,
then came back to Leroy, where they spent the rest of their days.
Ten children were born to them, a son, Hiram Jr., serving in the
Civil War, in Co. D, 6th Michigan Cavalry. He was taken
prisoner in July, 1863, and kept in Libby Prison until September
of the same year, when he was paroled, rejoined his regiment
and served until the end of the war.
In the spring of 1843, I being a babe of three months, my parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Rix, Sr., moved from their farm in Leroy
Township to the town of Manchester, Washtenaw county, in
which vicinity they lived seven years, returning in April, 1850.
At that time the country had lost some of its primeval newness,
but was still well covered with forests, with great tracts of swamp,
quite covered with water in the spring, and even most of the year,
in wet seasons, and at all times incapable of cultivation. Indian
trails had been replaced by rough roads with log causeways