Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1893 — FIFTY-SIX YEARS IN MICHIGAN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FIFTY-SIX YEARS IN MICHIGAN.

Timothy Dewey, of Concord, Who DrUled for the War of 1812. Concord can boast of containing one of the oldest inhabitants of the State of Michigan. Timothy Dewey was born in Rutland, Vt., on the

30th day of May, 1795, says a writer in the Detroit Journal. He was next to the oldest of eleven children, and survives them all. When a youth he moved to Cobocton, Steuben County, N. Y., where he was drafted, drilled and equipped for

the war of 1812, and was about to be called into active service when the war was brought to an end. On Aug. 13, 1819, he married Sallie Flint, and for their wedding tour took a journey of twenty-five miles on horseback to attend a Methodist quarterly meeting. In the spring of 1836 he came to Michigan. He walked from Detroit to Jackson, and after taking up a claim of 300 acres and building, alone, a log house, he moved his family here in the fall of the same year. Here he has lived since, and has cleared tip farms for several of his children. From boyhood he has always been an ardent Methodist, and was regularly seen taking his family of twelve children to meeting with a team of oxen. He has taken great pride in the education of his children, and all have been sent to Albion College. He is now in year, is occasionally able to attend meeting, and can still do a share of the farm work. He last fall husked over 100 bushels of corn.

TIMOTHY DEWEY.