Wellington Franklin RIX

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• Census: 1900, Living with parents in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co., Michigan
• Census: 1910, Living with parents in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co., Michigan
• Census: 1930, Living in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co., Michigan
• Census: 1940, Living in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co., Michigan

Wellington married Hattie Belle JICKLING on 24 Dec 1921 in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co., Michigan. Hattie was born on 26 Jan 1894 in Richland, Kalamazoo Co., Michigan; died on 4 Nov 1931 in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co., Michigan; was buried in Mountain Home Cemetery, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co., Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Minnie Belle RIX was born on 27 Dec 1922 in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co.,. Michigan; died on 12 Mar 1986 in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co., Michigan.

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• Census: 1880, Living with parents in Mason, Ingham Co., Michigan
• Census: 1900, Living in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co., Michigan
• Census: 1910, Living in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co., Michigan
• Census: 1920, Living in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co., Michigan
• Census: 1930, Living in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co., Michigan
• Census: 1940, Living in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co., Michigan

Wilder married Minnie Belle SHIELDS on 1 Jun 1895 in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co., Michigan. Minnie was born on 10 May 1876 in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co.,. Michigan; died on 21 Jul 1917 in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co., Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of John Shields and Lucy Oaks
• Census: 1900, Living with husband in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co., Michigan
• Census: 1910, Living with husband in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co., Michigan

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• Census: 1850, Living with parents in Ridgeway, Orleans Co., New York
• Census: 1860, Living with parents in Manchester, Washtenaw Co., Michigan
• Census: 1870, Living in Vevay, Ingham Co., Michigan
• Census: 1880, Living in Mason, Ingham Co., Michigan
• Census: 1900, Living in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co., Michigan
• Census: 1910, Living with son, Wilder, in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co, Michigan

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Soon after his marriage he removed to Michigan and settled in Mason, where he established himself in the carriage business. After a few years he sold out and removed to Kalamazoo, where he worked for others, and while doing so he perfected and patented a number of inventions which he sold outright and put the money into a home in the city and a farm in the country which his sons operated for some years. His home is all broken up and he is with one of his sons in Kalamazoo.

Benjamin married Cynthia Weld ELMER on 4 Jul 1869 in Rochester, New York. Cynthia was born on 9 Apr 1843 in Ridgeway, Orleans Co., New York; died on 26 Feb 1905 in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co., Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of Charles Elmer and Susan Thompson
• Census: 1870, Living with husband in Vevay, Ingham Co., Michigan
• Census: 1880, Living with husband in Mason, Ingham Co., Michigan
• Census: 1900, Living with husband in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co., Michigan
• Children: 1900, Lists having 4 children with 3 living

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• Fact: Son of Nathaniel Rix and Rebecca Eastman
• Census: 1850, Living in Ridgeway, Orleans Co., New York
• Occupation: 1850, Blacksmith
• Census: 1860, Living in Manchester, Washtenaw Co., Michigan
• Census: 1870, Living in Ridgeway, Orleans Co., New York

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Mr. Rix like most young men was brought up on a farm, and in the ordinary acceptance of that term was not liberally educated, though he supplemented by careful study and voluminous reading and research education which the common schools afforded. To a strongly practical training he added by his own exertions unusual literary culture, acquiring among his other accomplishments an almost irresistible fascination for studying the classics. he had a very retentive memory, and could quote pages of almost all the works of which he was familiar.

In his early life he learned the trade of edge-tool making, and proved to be a skillful workman. He taught school nineteen winters, and while teaching in Barnston, Canada, in the winter of 1835, he moved his family there, and after his school closed, he removed to Compton in the same county, and went to work at his trade. The Canadian Rebellion breaking out in the winter of 1836-7, he returned to Littleton, N.H., and after the rebellion was crushed, he returned to Canada and located at king's Croft, in Barnston, and entered into business on his own account. His business here not proving so favorably as he had wished, he returned to the States and located in Rumney, N.H., where he built up a good business, but a financial panic coming on, he met with reverse of fortune, and removed to western Ne York, landing at Hartland, Niagara County, in June, 1844. In the fall of this year removed to Middleport, Oleans County, ten miles away, and in the fall of 1846, he removed to Jeddo, a little village in Orleans County, about five miles from Middleport. Here he did business on his own account till 1851, when he removed to Michigan, locating at Manchester. In 1864, while his son, Guy S., was in the hospital in Washington, with his eg amputated, his wife there taking care of him, Mr. Rix and wife returned to Jeddo especially to care for Guy's children, and remained until 1870, when they returned to Michigan and located in Dowagiac, where their son Thomas resided. Here they remained until death. he was lame from boyhood, caused by his hip being put out of joint, and never being set.

My father had weaknesses (and who of us do not possess many), but I am proud to say that he was a kind-hearted man, an exceedingly generous one - a man who never turned the distressed and disconsolate from his door, but prompt to act in their behalf. Although not an open worshiper of the Great Architect of nature - in fact, to the uninitiated he was completely the reverse in some respects, for which I pardon him through extenuating circumstances - yet his heat beat with almost the tenderness my deae mother possessed, and however rough his expressions, by many misjudged I Know he inwardly worshiped the Great Artificer at nature's shrine, and I hope to meet them both in the happy hunting grounds of that undiscovered country from which no traveler returns.

Guy married Martha GATES on 4 Jan 1826 in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. Martha (daughter of Thomas GATES, Sr. and Patty PLUMLY) was born on 5 Mar 1807 in Acworth, Sullivan Co., New Hampshire; died on 28 Apr 1892 in Dowagiac, Cass Co., Michigan; was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Dowagiac, Cass Co., Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Birth: 10 Aug 1807, St. Johnsbury, Vermont
• Census: 1850, Living with husband in Ridgeway, Orleans Co., New York
• Census: 1860, Living with husband in Manchester, Washtenaw Co., Michigan
• Census: 1870, Living with husband in Ridgeway, Orleans Co., New York
• Census: 1880, Living with daughter, Martha Farwell, in Dowagiac, Cass Co., Michigan