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

Vevay-Allen Rowe, L. B. Royston, Chauncey Shattuck,
Mrs. T. F. Bentley, Robert Darrow, J. C. Obear.
Mason-Lucien Reed, John C. Cannon, Mrs. Mary Butler,
Peter Lowe, Mrs. D. W. Halstead, Asheal Baldwin, Mrs.
Thomas Bush, Mrs. Caroline Linderman, R. B. Patterson, Mrs.
Oliver Brailey.
Williamston-William Spaulding, Mrs. Viola Meade.
Wheatfield-Stephen Curtis, Mrs. Gardner Fletcher, Chas.
Cummings.
White Oak-Mary Cady, Asahell Munson, Mrs. Osborne,
Daniel Dutcher.
Frank H. Frazell and Miss Maud Mehan, with claronet and
organ, furnished the music. When J. A. Barnes, the president,
called to order he spoke of some being present whom he met on
the same spot 54 years earlier in the county's history. A pathetic
feature of the meeting was the reading of a letter from the first
secretary of the society, Peter Lowe, who since writing it had
passed into the Great Beyond.
The following verses, written by Mrs. E. M. G. Hawley, to be
sung to the tune of "Auld Lang Sync," were adopted as the banquet song of the Pioneer Society:
"A SONG FOR OLD TIMES."
"0 may the spell of memory
Be o'er our spirits cast
As we today together hold
Communion with the past!
Let mutual joys and mutual cares
Which filled that busy time
Be sweet to us as we recall
The days of Auld Lang Ayne.
"Life's sunset gilds life's afternoon,
The evening shades appear,
Yet histories of the morning's toil
Engage the pioneer.