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I am trying to find the parents of my great grandfather, Alonzo Colburn. Alonzo was said to have been born in 1853 in Ft. Wayne, Allen Co., IN. The history that we have is:
Alonzo was orphaned at an early age. A minister gave him and his siblings to different families to raise. If this is true, his parents must have died together or close in time, to have made no provisions at all for the children. I have no names of other children.
Alonzo didn't care for his living arrangements, and at about the age of 12 years, he set off on his own. He ended up in Menominee, MI where he married Elizabeth Kinney on May 28, 1878. On their marriage license, he lists a Joel Colburn as his father. This is all we know about him. There is no record of him that we can find in Ft. Wayne or anywhere in Indiana. I have found a reference to a Juel Colburn (may be misspelled) in Ohio once.
If Alonzo did leave at such an early age on his own, Ft. Wayne may just be a place he remembered and thought he was born in.
He and Elizabeth had the following children: (Some of the names they gave them may have been from siblings he remembered)--- Chester Arthur (my grandfather); Orville; Estella; Alonzo, Jr; Albert; Emma; Margaret; Grace; Alice; George; Laura; and Francis Laurence.
Does anyone have anything that may be a clue to this part of my family? Or a direction to go in? I would desperately like to find some answers and some siblings for Alonzo. They may have even come down from Canada, we don't know. He was Catholic, we think. He married a Catholic and the family on that side has stayed Catholic.
Thanks for any help. Jane Limerick Monroe Littleton, COa
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