DeLoraine Herbert THURSTON

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• Census: 1860, Living with parents in Leoni, Jackson Co., Michigan
• Census: 1870, Living with father and step-mother in Leoni, Jackson Co., Michigan

DeLoraine married Orcelia ROLFE on 14 Jan 1874 in Vevay, Michgian. Orcelia was born on 1 Nov 1852 in Vevay, Michigan; died on 4 Nov 1934 in Jackson, Jackson Co., Michigan; was buried in Mount Evergreen Cemetery, Jackson, Jackson Co., Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. DeLoraine Herbert THURSTON was born on 14 Apr 1884 in Michigan.

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• Census: 1860, Living in Leoni, Jackson Co., Michigan
• Census: 1870, Living in Leoni, Jackson Co., Michigan
• Census: 1880, Living in Leoni, Jackson Co., Michigan

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V.D. Thurston was born Aug. 13, 1818, in Erie county, New York, son of Thomas and Electa (Wilcox) Thurston; was educated in the schools of the district, labored on the farm, served three years of mercantile life, and returning to the old homestead remained there until the immigration of the family westward in September, 1850. He married Almira Allen in 1850, who was born in Vermont, and was the mother of 3 children, vix.: Herbert D., born April 7, 1851; Thomas, May 25, 1853; Jabez A., Feb. 3, 1858. The year of his arrival in this county he located on a farm of 500 acres in this tp. In 1852 his present dwelling was completed, and since that period he has continued to reside there. Mrs. Thurston died May 25, 1864. Her sons were educated in the schools of Jackson and Grass Lake. In 1867 Mr. T., married Harriet Peckham, a native of Monroe county, New York. In political matters he is not ambitious, yet the people of the twp. conferred upon him important offices.

Voltaire married Almira ALLEN on 31 Mar 1850. Almira was born in 1819; died on 26 May 1864. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1860, Living with husband in Leoni, Jackson Co., Michigan