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.
