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

Ellen and Sarah; the Pettis, John and James, also Hattie Godfrey,
Ed Shaw, Carlos Barden.
Mary Hanchett taught in 1868. Other teachers were Sara
Craddock, Mrs. Tibbets, better known as Mrs. J. S. Wilson, Lillie
Holling, Alice Norton, Joseph Compton, who taught at least two
winters. (On the last day of school he gave each scholar his
picture, and one small boy, now a man living in Leslie, took the
picture home and asked if it was worth keeping, it was so small.)
Eveline Jones, Maggie McCann, George Hull.
About this time the district acquired a clock which had the
words "C-R-E-A-M-M-U-S-T-A-R-D-" on its face instead
of the usual figures.
W. W. Cook taught in 1880, and other teachers were Anna
Norton, Libbie Fry, Mrs. Hodges, of Eden, Ari Butler, Miss
Grimes, Della Wooster, Della Wright. Ella Giles. Eva Demarsh,
Marcia Root, Della Pickett, Ada Culver, Ed Pickett, Abbie
Pickett, Allie Alexander, Irene Stitt, May Standish, Susie Reynolds, Pauline Rumsey, Hazel Mitchell, Hazel Opdike, Edna
Berry, Emma Pickett, Edith Lankin, Blanche Douglas, Lorna
Metcalf, Rhea Harvey and Cecil Steffins.
HISTORICAL SKETCHES.
By MRS. ELLA HALTZ and Read by MRS. CHILDS.
John K. Leach, at the Taylor picnic Aug. 8, 1906, told the following story: "My father came to Rives, near the Ingham county
line, and bought 320 acres of land for which he paid the government $1.25 per acre. The following year he came again (1836)
and built a house and in August of that year we left our home in
Cayuga county, N. Y., and started for our new home in the wilds
of Michigan. We came by water to Detroit and there father met
us with a horse and a span of oxen attached to a covered wagon
with which to convey us and our scanty goods through the wilderness.
"Besides father and mother there were five children, ranging
from one to fourteen years. I was then about six years old. The
roads were terrible and it took us about eight days to get from