1804 - 1879 (74 years)
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Name |
Maria Viele [1, 2, 3] |
Birth |
25 May 1804 |
Stillwater, Saratoga, New York, USA [4] |
Gender |
Female |
Residence |
1850 |
Pittsford, Hillsdale, Michigan, USA [5] |
Residence |
1860 |
May, Lee, Illinois, USA [6] |
Residence |
3 Jul 1865 |
May, Lee, Illinois, USA [7] |
Residence |
1870 |
Amboy, Lee, Illinois, USA [8] |
Death |
6 Feb 1879 |
Sublette, Lee, Illinois, USA |
Person ID |
I2145 |
Master |
Last Modified |
12 Jun 2014 |
Father |
Stephen Viele, b. 3 Aug 1753, Schenectady, Schenectady, New York, USA d. 22 Dec 1840, Albany, Albany, New York, USA (Age 87 years) |
Mother |
Sarah Toll, b. 25 Jul 1756, Albany, Albany, New York, USA d. 3 Sep 1818, Saratoga Springs, Saratoga, New York, USA (Age 62 years) |
Marriage |
14 Sep 1773 |
Family ID |
F2968 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family |
John Munger, b. 6 May 1796, Stillwater, Saratoga, New York, USA d. 3 Apr 1856, , Hillsdale, Michigan, USA (Age 59 years) |
Marriage |
3 Jun 1823 |
Stillwater, Saratoga, New York, USA [9] |
Children |
+ | 1. Melissa Munger, b. 4 Jan 1824, , , New York, USA d. 1 Jan 1872, Adrian, Lenawee, Michigan, USA (Age 47 years) |
+ | 2. Abner Munger, b. 31 Jan 1826, Saratoga, Saratoga, New York, USA d. , , Nebraska, USA |
| 3. Martha J Munger, b. 27 Oct 1827, Stillwater, Saratoga, New York, USA d. 13 Dec 1865 (Age 38 years) |
+ | 4. John Viele Munger, b. 17 Jul 1829, Stillwater, Saratoga, New York, USA d. 1919, Hudson, Lenawee, Michigan, USA (Age 89 years) |
+ | 5. Harmon G Munger, b. 26 Oct 1831, , Somerset, Pennsylvania, USA d. 29 Jan 1868, Hudson, Lenawee, Michigan, USA (Age 36 years) |
+ | 6. Ezra A Munger, b. 26 Jan 1836, , Hillsdale, Michigan, USA d. 20 Mar 1893 (Age 57 years) |
+ | 7. Maria Munger, b. 11 Jul 1838, , Hillsdale, Michigan, USA d. 14 Apr 1909 (Age 70 years) |
| 8. Jerome B Munger, b. 28 Apr 1840, , Hillsdale, Michigan, USA d. 11 Apr 1863, Sublette, Lee, Illinois, USA (Age 22 years) |
| 9. Sara Munger, b. 30 May 1843, , Hillsdale, Michigan, USA d. 4 Dec 1907 (Age 64 years) |
+ | 10. Rufus Seth Reed Munger, b. 9 Jun 1844, , Hillsdale, Michigan, USA d. 8 Sep 1914, Brocksburg, Keya Paha, Nebraska, USA (Age 70 years) |
+ | 11. Jeanette Munger, b. 13 Jul 1846, , Hillsdale, Michigan, USA d. 18 Sep 1922, Fairbury, Jefferson, Nebraska, USA (Age 76 years) |
+ | 12. Fidelia Munger, b. 30 Nov 1847, , Hillsdale, Michigan, USA d. 19 May 1911, Fairbury, Jefferson, Nebraska, USA (Age 63 years) |
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Family ID |
F736 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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Event Map |
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| Birth - 25 May 1804 - Stillwater, Saratoga, New York, USA |
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| Marriage - 3 Jun 1823 - Stillwater, Saratoga, New York, USA |
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| Residence - 1850 - Pittsford, Hillsdale, Michigan, USA |
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| Residence - 1860 - May, Lee, Illinois, USA |
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| Residence - 3 Jul 1865 - May, Lee, Illinois, USA |
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| Residence - 1870 - Amboy, Lee, Illinois, USA |
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| Death - 6 Feb 1879 - Sublette, Lee, Illinois, USA |
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Sources |
- [S227] Ancestry.com, 1850 United States Federal Census, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009.), Year: 1850; Census Place: Pittsford, Hillsdale, Michigan; Roll: M432_351; Page: 369A; Image: .
Birth date: abt 1805Birth place: New YorkResidence date: 1850Residence place: Pittsford, Hillsdale, Michigan
- [S231] Ancestry.com, 1870 United States Federal Census, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. ), Year: 1870; Census Place: Amboy, Lee, Illinois; Roll: M593_; Page: ; Image: .
Birth date: abt 1807Birth place: New YorkResidence date: 1870Residence place: Amboy, Lee, Illinois, United States
- [S31] Ancestry.com, 1860 United States Federal Census, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.), Year: 1860; Census Place: May, Lee, Illinois; Roll: ; Page: 379; Image: 377.
Birth date: abt 1804Birth place: New YorkResidence date: 1860Residence place: May, Lee, Illinois, United States
- [S130] Chapman Brothers, Portrait and biographical album of Lenawee County, Mich. 816-817, (Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1888), 816-817 (Reliability: 2).
JOHN VELIE MUNGER, a prominent and well-to-do farmer of Hudson Township, was born at Stillwater, Saratoga Co NY July 17 1829. He is a son of John and Maria (Velie) Munger, both of whom were natives of the Empire State, and pioneers of the wilds of Michigan, having come to this State when it was yet a Territory, in 1835.
The father of the subject of this sketch was born in Saratoga County, N. Y., May 26, 1796, while yet that part of the State was but sparsely settled and largely covered with primeval forests. When he was some four years old, the family removed to Erie County Pa where they made their home until 1835, at which time his father started for the Territory of Michigan, where he hoped to build up a new home in the wilderness. He was accompanied by his wife and eight children, including our subject, and came by way of the lake to Toledo, Ohio. On arriving at the latter place, he left his family and started on foot for his future home in
Hillsdale County. He had visited the Bean Creek Valley the year previous, and had entered some Government land on section 36 in what is now Pittsford Township. On his arrival in Hillsdale
County, he procured a yoke of oxen and a cart, and returning to Toledo for his family and house hold goods, brought them to their new home. His land at that time was thickly covered by the forest that had grown and luxuriated for centuries undisturbed. Knowing that it would take some time to clear enough of it to raise a crop to support his family, he rented a tract of improved land,
on which they lived for that year. During this time he disencumbered a portion of his own place of its leafy covering, and prepared the land for cultivation. Putting up a log cabin in 1836 he therein installed his family, and entering upon the
arduous duties of a frontier farmer patiently endured the hardships and privations attendant on a pioneer life.
On this farm, which he had literally hewn out of the forest, the father resided until 1855, when he sold out and removed to Amboy Township, Lee Co., Ill., where he purchased 160 acres of prairie
land of the Government, and commenced to break up a new farm, but two years later was called upon by the Angel of death to cross the dark river. His wife, who was before marriage Miss Maria Velie, was also a native of Stillwater Saratoga Co NY, and first drew the breath of life on the 25th of May 1804; she died in Amboy Ill in 1875.
John V. Munger, the subject of this sketch, was
but six years oid when he came to Michigan with
his parents, and is a living witness of the great
changes that have taken place since his early days.
The deer, wolves, beers and wild turkeys that were
so plentiful here in his boyhood, have entirely van-
ished, and the forest wilderness has given place to
beautiful farms and thrifty towns and villages. He
remained beneath the parental roof, attending the
pioneer schools and assisting his father in his agri-
cultural labors, until he was some nineteen years
old, when he commenced an apprenticeship to the
trade of carpenter and joiner. Having completed
that trade, he has followed it ever since, with the
exception of about ten years, when he was engaged
in the manufacture of extension tables. In 1855
he removed to the village of Hudson, and purchas-
ing a house on West Main street, took up his resi-
dence therein, and remained there until 1876, when
he moved into a fine brick mansion which he had
just erected. He made this latter house his home
until February, 1888, when he commenced agricult-
ural pursuits upon the Kenyon farm, where he is
now living.
The subject of this sketch has been twice married.
April 21. 1855, he entered into a matrimonial
alliance with Miss Emily Allen, a native of Seneca
County, N.Y., and the daughter of Robert Allen,
also a Native of the Empire State. Her parents had
settled in Hillsdale County in 1855, locating in
Jefferson Township on a farm, and sometime sub-
sequently removed to Reading Township, where
they died. Mrs. Munger was called away by death
April 25, 1881, leaving one child, Edith, now the
now the wife of Lewis Graham of Wheatland Township.
The second marriage of Mr. Munger took place
May 10, 1882, at which time he espoused Miss
Louise M. Kenyon. She is a native of this township
and county, having been born on the farm where
she now lives Feb. 15, 1840, and is a daughter of
Sylvester and Eliza (Goodrich) Kenyon. Her
father was one of the earliest settlers of Hudson
Township, having located here in 1834. He was
born in Hinesburg, Vt., Dec, 4, 1808, and grew to
manhood among the green hills and valleys of his
native state. May 11, 1834, he was united in marriage
with Miss Eliza, a daughter of George and
Clamania (Lee) Goodrich, who was born in Williston,
Vt., Feb. 22, 1814. On the 14th of May fol-
lowing his marriage. Sylvester Kenyon started with
his young bride for the West, to seek in the wilderness
a new home. He came by way of the Erie
Canal and the Lake to Detroit, and thence by team
to Tecumseh, Lenawee County. Arriving at the em-
bryo village, he left his wife and started on foot for
the Bean Creek Valley, and found at Lanesville,
now Hudson, but one log cabin, then occupied by
Beriah Lane. Mr. Kenyon purchased a tract of
land of Mr. Lane, adjoining the present site of the
village, but after paying for it, he had but a few
shillings left in his pocket, and therefore returned
to Tecumseh, and worked on the territorial road to
earn money enough to carry them through the winter.
Before the snow began to fly, Mr. K. removed
to his place, where he had erected a log cabin, and
during the winter felled some of the timber that
covered the ground. The next season he raised a
crop of corn and potatoes among the logs and
stumps, which he had not yet time to destroy.
After bringing his place to a high state of cultiva-
tion, he remained upon it until his death, which
occured March 29, 1879. Mrs. Eliza (Goodrich)
Kenyon died Dec. 24, 1879, nine months after the
death of her husband. They left three children,
the eldest, Mrs. G.G. Williams, now a resident of
Vanderbilt, Otsego Co., Mich., but still owning the
east half of the Kenyon homestead; Mrs. J.V.
Munger, of Hudson, and Mr. Martin Kenyon, now
a resident of Pittsford, Hillsdale Co., Mich.
Mrs. Kenyon died on the homestead. Mrs. Clamania
Goodrich was born in Wells, Vt., June 16, 1790, and
after her marriage settled with her husband at
Williston, where they remained until 1836. At that time
they started for the Territory of Michigan,
by way of Lake Champlain to Troy, N.Y.,
and from there by Erie Canal and the Lake to
Toledo. From the latter place they proceeded by
team to Pittsford Township in Hillsdale County,
where they settled upon a farm, where her husband
died June 2, 1850. Mrs. Goodrich died on the
old homestead, Dec. 13, 1863.
- [S227] Ancestry.com, 1850 United States Federal Census, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009.), Year: 1850; Census Place: Pittsford, Hillsdale, Michigan; Roll: M432_351; Page: 369; Image: 87.
Name: Maria Munger
Birth Date: abt 1805
Birth Place: New York
Residence Date: 1850
Residence Place: Pittsford, Hillsdale, Michigan
- [S31] Ancestry.com, 1860 United States Federal Census, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.), Year: 1860; Census Place: May, Lee, Illinois; Roll: M653_198; Page: 0; Image: 378.
Name: Maria Munger
Birth Date: abt 1804
Birth Place: New York
Residence Date: 1860
Residence Place: May, Lee, Illinois
http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1860usfedcenancestry&h=36874087&ti=0&indiv=try
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- [S393] Ancestry.com., Illinois State Census Collection, 1825-1865, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008.Original data - Illinois State Census, 1825. Microfilm. Record Series 103.003, 1 roll. Illinois State Archives, Springfield, Illinois.Illinois State Census, 1830. Microfilm. Record Seri).
Residence date: 3 Jul 1865Residence place: May, Lee, IllinoisArrival date: Arrival place: Illinois
- [S231] Ancestry.com, 1870 United States Federal Census, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. ), Year: 1870; Census Place: , , ; Roll: M593.
Name: Maria Munger
Birth Date: abt 1807
Birth Place: New York
Residence Date: 1870
Residence Place: Amboy, Lee, Illinois
http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1870usfedcen&h=16037747&ti=0&indiv=try
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- [S130] Chapman Brothers, Portrait and biographical album of Lenawee County, Mich. 816-817, (Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1888) (Reliability: 2).
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