Sunday, October 18, 2015

Peter and Salley Hazelton - Part III



     The information on the last five children of Peter and Sarah "Salley" (Pierce) Hazelton is short. They either died young and/or unmarried or (thankfully) didn't have as many children.
3)  Aaron Carter Hazelton - Aaron was named after his uncle, Captain Aaron Carter, married to his father's sister, Eliza.  Aaron was born in New York on 14 May 1823 and died of pneumonia in Dixon, Solano, California on 10 March 1906.  A description of him says he was "5'6" complexion fair; eyes gray; hair gray."  This would probably have been an average height for that time.  Aaron never married.  He left a small amount of money to a woman by the name of Harriet 'Hattie' (Miller) Olmstead. She was the daughter of James and Eliza Miller. Hattie was born in 1869 in CA. Aaron was a lodger in the Miller home in 1870 and lists his occupation at that time as a miller. He owned a Mill for 15 years.  By the 1900 census, he called himself a "capitalist."  He helped to establish the Antioch Bank in California. In his final will, not only did he leave money to Hattie, but to three nieces: Mary Ella (Hazelton) Childs, Frances A. (Hazelton) Burke  and Ida (Thompson) Kidney. His estate was valued at $29,000 at the time. In today's money, it would be approximately $700,000.  (Thank  you to 'cousin' Shirley Bogart Harper for all her research on this family).
4) Peter Clark "Clark" Hazelton was born on 14 June 1825 and probably died after 1850 in Marshall, Calhoun County, MI. There is a Clark Hazelton listed on the 1850 US Federal Census with a John Kimble family in Marshall. He was listed as a laborer. It is hard to believe that this person is not our Clark  although others indicate he died in 1845. There is no other information on him. If  he died in the Marshall area, one assumes he is in the same cemetery as his father - Oakridge Cemetery. There are no markers for either the them and their actual burial site is unknown.
5) Mary Ann Hazelton - another mystery is where Mary Ann died, where she is buried and how  she died.  She was born in NY on 30 March 1827. She is listed in the 1850 census with her mother and siblings. That is the last record we have for her. Some of the notes I have state she died in White River, MI around 1857. There are two White Rivers in Michigan:
- White River (Lower Michigan), in Muskegon and Oceana Counties (probably White River Township in White Hall, Muskegon Co.) and
- White River (Upper Michigan), in Huron County. 
 6) Brooks Bowman Hazelton - born 10 May 1829, died in Michigan on 10 December 1899. This is my great-great-grandfather.
       The last child of Peter and Salley:
7) Jeannette A. Hazelton was born on 10 May 1834. She married as his second wife, William Landon Thompson, in 1853.  They had two children: Ida Thompson, born in October 1856, in Edgar, Edgar County, Illinois,  married James D. Kidney in 1881. James died in 1912.  They had no children. Ida died in 1916 in Detroit.  A son, Kit (some say a middle name of Carson) Thompson was born in 1857 also in Edgar. There is no further information on him. There was a note that says he "went west and was married, had a daughter but that the daughter died before Kit did." William had been married before and had two daughters. We don't know how Jeannette and William met, but Jeannette and the children did end up in the Battle Creek area by 1870, without William.
     This ends my update of Peter and Salley and their children. Now to tackle Salley's parentage.

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