Index to Records of Pioneers of Ottawa County

Genealogy Family Group Sheets of Early Settlers mainly in the SE area of Ottawa County - Anyone wishing to add a group sheet on their family in Ottawa County, please send me the information.

Georgetown Township

• George Briceland log cabin, Georgetown Township.
• Liberty Tanner Beardsley

Holland Township and Town

• Rev. George Smith and his wife, Arvilla, History of these missionaries to the Ottawa Indians who led them from Holland to Grand Traverse Bay in 1849.
• Pilgrim Home Cemetery - the oldest tombstone
• Albertus Christiaan Van Raalte, leader of the group founding Holland, Michigan in 1847
• Cornelius Steketee, early pioneer, 1847

Jamestown Township

• Thomas Garfield - Four scanned pictures of his obituary and of his family's tombstones in Hanley Cemetery.
• Article on Thomas Garfield's death (Brother of President James Garfield), 1910
• Roswell Boice Stilwill "R. B.", Blacksmith, Jamestown, Michigan
• Jamestown Old Settlers Picnics Financial Record, 1915-1932

Grand Haven

• Cornelius Neitering - Grand Haven early settler
  
   

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