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Portrait & Biographical Album of Lenawee County, Michigan, Chapman Brothers, 1888, page 1039 LYMAN H. ALDRICH. Prominent among the residents of this section of country stands the subject of this sketch, who is located on section 34, Seneca Township, where he owns sixty acres of excellent land under a high state of cultivation. He has been a resident of this section since 1848, and has erected on his farm a neat and substantial residence, with all the out buildings necessary for the successful prosecution of his calling as an agriculturist. The parents of our subject were Abner and Emily (Henderson) Aldrich, the former a native of Rhode Island, and born near the city of Providence, while the latter is supposed to have been a native of New York State. When a youth of about seventeen years of age, Abner Aldrich came from Rhode Island to Ontario County, N.Y., where he grew to manhood, and met and married Miss Emily Henderson. Soon after their marriage the young couple removed to Sandusky County, Ohio, where they entered a tract of Government land, and engaged in its improvement until their death. They became the parents of eleven children, seven sons and four daughters, of whom ten lived to years of maturity. Our subject, who was the third son and the third in order of birth in the family, was born in Green Creek Township, Sandusky Co., Ohio, Nov. 21, 1826, where he was reared on a farm and received as good an education as was obtainable in the common schools of those days. During his youth he was variously employed in that section of the country, making his home, however, with his parents. After his marriage he rented the old homestead for one year, and in 1848 came to what is now Royalton Township, Fulton Co., Ohio, where he bought a tract of forty acres of land on the line between Ohio and Michigan. After a residence in this place of two and one-half years, he was compiled, through no fault of his own, to sacrifice his farm, and he was left almost without means. He came to Seneca Township, this county, in the autumn of 1850, and purchased forty acres of land on section 35, on which he built a log house and lived until 1865, when he purchased eighty acres on section 34, where he has since resided. Mr. Aldrich has disposed of part of his farm and now owns sixty acres. The subject of this biography was united in marriage in Green Creek Township, Sandusky Co., Ohio, May 13, 1847, with Miss Mary, daughter of Henry and Nancy (Wright) Lybarker, the former of German ancestry, and born in Pennsylvania, while the latter was of English and Scotch ancestry, and was a native of Detroit, Mich. After their marriage they settled in Erie County, Pa., and subsequently removed to Green Creek Township, Sandusky Co., Ohio. They afterward removed to Isabella County, Mich, where the father passed away to his final rest; the wife had previously died in Springfield, Erie Co., Pa., where she resided with her daughter. Their family consisted of eleven children, seven sons and four daughters, of whom nine lived to years of maturity. Mrs. Aldrich, the eighth child, was born in Springfield, Erie Co., Pa., April 12, 1828. To our subject and his wife have been born six children, three of whom are living, and named as follows: Edgar D., Henry A., and Viola; the names of the deceased children were Nancy, Alice and Amelia. Edgar married Olive Bickford; Henry took to wife Louisa A. Dull, and Viola is the wife of Felch Haywood; Nancy died in infancy; Alice died in Seneca Township when eighteen years of age, and Amelia died in the same township at the age of twenty-three. In politics our subject is identified with the Democratic party, and has held the position of Highway Commissioner three years, acting alike with credit to himself and satisfaction to all concerned. He is not an office-seeker, preferring to devote his time and attention to his domestic affairs. He has served in the capacity of Juryman in the Circuit Court of Lenawee County four times since he took up his residence in this county. ADDITIONAL NOTES FOR LYMAN H. ALDRICH : CEMETERY INFO: Aldrich, Lyman H. born 1826, Nov 21, Sandusky Co, OH died - 1894, Apr 24, Seneca, MI, age : 67y5m3d Cause of death : consumption, Lot # 500, Sec.1199, Oak Grove Cemetery, Seneca Twp., Morenci, Lenawee Co., MI. Aldrich, Mary J., born 1828, Apr 12, Erie, PA,, died 1907, Oct 01 in Morenci, MI., age ,75y5m19d, Cause of death : old age, Lot # 500, 805, Oak Grove Cemetery, Seneca Twp., Morenci, Lenawee Co., MI. Lyman & Mary Aldrich are my great great grandparents. I descend from their son, Edgar Aldrich who married Olive Bickford and had a daughter Alice Aldrich. Alice married Archie W. COLE and lived in Branch County, MI. (my grandparents). Submitted by: Mary (nee: Cole) Bickford w/o David L. Bickford of Rockport, TX. June 18, 2004 kanemj@pyramid3.net Return To The Museum |
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