Re: Do You Know These Carey's?
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Do You Know These Carey's?
3/28/00
Found this on the internet.
This would be Brother To Calvin L. Carey & Sarah Hadden couple not their son.
REV. GEORGE W. CAREY is engaged in farming in Vermontville Township, where he has developed a valuable farm, and he is also a clergyman of the Free Methodist church, in whose work he has been very active.
Mr. Carey was born in Niagara County, New York, March 5, 1836, and is a son of Calvin L. and Nancy (Cornell) Carey, the former of whom was born in Genesee County, New York, in 1800, and the latter of whom was born in the province of Ontario, Canada, August 13, 1812.The father died at the age of fifty years and his widow is still living, making her home in the city of Charlotte and having attained to the great age of ninety-six years, being undoubtedly the oldest person in Eaton County.
Calvin L. Carey was a cooper by trade, and he followed this as a vocation for a number of years, after which he turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, though he never owned a farm, having been in very moderate financial circumstances at the time of his death, which occurred in the state of New York.
Following is a brief record concerning the seven children:
John F. is a resident of Charlotte; the subject of this sketch was the next in order of birth;
Esther M. resides with her mother, in Charlotte;
Jane became the wife of Thomas Skinner and when last heard from was a resident of Chicago, the supposition being that she is now deceased;
Joseph T. was living in Denver, Colorado, when the subject of this sketch last heard from him;
Calvin.L. died in the city of Omaha, in 1902; and
David died more than fifty years ago.
George W. Carey began the battle of life on his own responsibility when a mere child, having left home when but eight years of age, and having thereafter never had a home for a year at a time until he made one for himself.He was with his parents, at varying and brief intervals, for several years, but has been practically dependent upon his own resources from his boyhood days.When he was a child his parents removed from New York in Ontario, Canada, just across the Niagara River, and when he was ten years old they returned to the state of New York.He was employed by the month at farm work until the time of his marriage.It is needless to say that his early educational advantages were most meager, being confined to a desultory and limited attendance in the district schools; but through personal discipline and through experience he has become a well informed man and one of well fortified convictions and opinions.For some time after his marriage Mr. Carey rented land and was engaged in farming, in New York.In 1865 he came with his family to Michigan and located in Eaton County.For the first three years he lived on a farm, in Sunfield Township, having purchased the property for a man named Childs.At the expiration of the period noted Mr. Carey purchased sixty-two and three-fourths acres, in section 2, Vermontville township, this constituting his present farm.The land was wild, the greater portion being heavily timbered.He built a small frame house, which is a portion of his present comfortable residence, and he has reclaimed all of his land to cultivation, erected other substantial buildings and has a well improved farm.Mr. Carey originally gave his support to the Republican party, having voted for Abraham Lincoln at the time of his first election, but for many years past he has been identified with the Prohibition Party, being an uncompromising foe of the liquor traffic.For seventeen years he traveled far and wide, advocating the cause of temperance and preaching the word of the divine Master, having been for many years an ordained elder in the Free Methodist church.He was finally compelled to abandon his ministerial labors by reason of chronic nasal catarrh, but he exemplifies his Christian faith and devotion in the daily walks of life and never misses an opportunity to bring to the minds and hearts of others the spiritual truth which has so eminently en-grossed his attention.He is an able and convincing public speaker and has accomplished a worthy work in the field of religious endeavor.October 16, 1857, Mr. Carey was united in marriage to Miss Mary A. Ivers, who was born in Ireland, March 17, 1836, and who remains by his side, a cherished and de-voted companion and helpmeet.Her father died in Ireland when she was a child and when she was about thirteen years old her mother started with her two children for America, her death occurring before the vessel reached the shores of the United States.The two orphan children were thus left to provide for themselves upon their arrival in America, as strangers in a strange land, and Mrs. Carey thus continued self-sustaining until her marriage.
Mr. and Mrs. Carey became the parents of eight children, of whom seven are living : Maria E. is the wife of Samuel Dunn, of Sunfield township;
Jennie is ,the wife of Edward Spitzer, of Vermontville township, and they have seven children ;
Minnie A. is the wife of William Young, of Battle Creek, and they have two children ;
James L., who is a farmer of Sunfield township, married Miss Della Barden, and they have two children ;
George W., who is a farmer of Vermontville township, married Miss Lillie Holton and they have one child;
Lena L., who is the wife of Harry Richards, of Sunfield township, had four children by a previous marriage and two by her present union, two of the children of the first marriage residing with her parents ;
Willard Henry, who is a farmer in Barry county, married Miss Grace Bale and they have two children ; and Dora died at the age of five months.
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Re: Do You Know These Carey's?
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