Look at my online photo album filled with photos from my vacations and the family.  Click on the Vacation Photo Link on left

Above Grand Haven, Mi Pier, click photo to enlarge.

View the Family Trees, are you related?

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Early Caledonia News Paper

Cemeteries and tombstones

Frankenmuth - Ice Sculptures

oxynerd.info

A Ticket for the Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company (TMER&L)

John B. Kraft's, 1873 German Bible

Click here for the German Bible

Helen (Spaulding) Kraft's, 1860 English Bible

Click here for the Spaulding Bible 1860

Holy Matrimony Wedding Certificate 1867

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Nashville, Michigan, Graduation Class of 1937

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Grand Rapids, Michigan, Mulick Park School, Class of 1958, 6th grade

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Our local Businesses you can trust for exceptional service, click on links. I recommend but do not Guarantee.

McDonald Photography

Blackies Radio and TV

Forest Hills Foods

Spaanstra Bros. Garage

Knight of Columbus Hall - Paul Arbanas

Threshold Nutrition - (Supplements)

Restaurant Reviews

This web site is dedicated to my ancestors who came to Kent County, Michigan in the early 1800s.  Kent County was a wilderness at the time but the families survived the hardships.   The families of Kraft (1869), Cook (1836), Patterson (1828), and Spaulding (1836) were among the first to arrive in Kent County, Michigan.

Edward Spaulding lived in Jamestown in the year 1619 and endured the Indian Massacre that occurred in the Virginia Colony on Good Friday, March 22, 1622.   About 347 people, or almost one-third of the population of Jamestown were killed by attacks of the Powhatan Confederacy under Chief Opechancanough.

Please visit Matthew's dedication to his Grand Mother.

Family History

Please visit the family history pages. Click Here

Special Page

Patterson Sanitarium

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