1824. Her maiden name was Robinson. Her father was a slave, but her mother was born free. From this marriage there were nine children, of whom Malinda was the sixth.

On account of the father being a slave a very determined effort was made to enslave the children. This the mother steadfastly resisted through the courts for fourteen years, when they were finally declared free. Malinda, the subject of this sketch, distinctly remembered the time, she being then five years of age. The mother then tried to buy the freedom of her husband, but the sum asked ($15,000) being beyond her power to secure, he urged her to take the children and go north, choosing to die there alone in slavery rather than run the risk of having them stolen from her. She finally did so, taking her departure in the night, her husband, unknown to his master, accompanying them nine miles of the way. They then knelt together and prayed and sang a parting hymn, and the slave father turned back alone to end his life a slave, while the faithful mother hurriedly bore her children onward to a place of safety.

They never met again on earth. She found a home for herself at Terre Haute, Ind., where they earned their living, the mother at her trade as a tailoress, and the children working out. There Malinda became acquainted with William Paris, whom she married at the age of eighteen. He was born free, but had been kidnapped at three different times and taken into slavery. Twice he was held thus for six months at a time before he found opportunity to escape, and the last time he was held a year. This was before their marriage.

After their marriage they went to Vincennes, Ind., where they found employment in a hotel as cooks. But they had not been long there when his would-be master found him out, and came with his bloodhounds to force him back into slavery; but by means of the "underground railroad" a safe landing on Canadian soil was secured to him. He went to Chatham, where he was soon joined by his wife, Malinda, and there their first child, Jane, was born. He enlisted as a soldier, but in a short time the regiment was disbanded. After this they went to Detroit, and meeting there with Gen. S. B. Brown they were hired by him to come to St. Clair and cook in his hotel, and here they spent the remainder of their lives, she being left a widow in the year 1860.

There were seven children born to them, three of whom are still living. Her oldest son, Henry, enlisted in the war of the rebellion, where he remained until its close, a period of over three years and three months. He contracted disease in the army, consumption, and

after a lingering illness, died in his mother's home. She finally applied for and received a pension on his account, but only lived to enjoy it for about three years. She was always a very hard worker, and for the last few years of her life she suffered a good deal from difficulty of breathing. Fourteen months ago she had a very sudden and serious attack of sickness which the physicians pronounced heart trouble. From this she never recovered. During the most of this period her sufferings were intense. She knew that her life hung upon a very slender thread, but her trust in God was unfaltering to the end. Her desire for continued life was only for the sake of others, that she might still help to bear their burdens. The immense concourse of people present on the occasion was sufficient testimony that "Aunt Malinda" will long be held in loving remembrance by the people of St. Clair.

REV. A. HASTINGS ROSS.-Rev. A. Hastings Ross died at his home in Port Huron, May 13, 1893. He was a native of Worcester county, Massachusetts, and was born in the town of Winchendon on April 28, 1831. His early life was spent on a farm. He attended the common school there and entered the academy. He afterwards went to Oberlin, Ohio, where he entered Oberlin college, and graduated in 1857. After graduating he entered the theological seminary at Andover, Massachusetts, where he pursued his theological studies for three years. His first pastorate was at Boylston, Mass., where he remained five years. He then accepted a call and was pastor of the Congregational church of Springfield, Ohio, for seven years, and was afterwards pastor of a church in Columbus, Ohio, for two years. He then accepted a call from the first Congregational church in Port Huron, and came here on June 1, 1876. During his lifetime Mr. Ross was a lecturer on church polity in the Oberlin Theological Seminary, and was elected "Southworth lecturer on Congregationalism" at Andover Theological Seminary. During his seventeen years residence in Port Huron he built up a large congregation, with several branch chapels. He was one of the founders of the Hospital and Home and was its president at the time of his death. He will be missed in this institution. Mr. Ross was also prominently identified with other charitable institutions. of the city. He was respected by all classes in all churches, and was acknowledged a man of much ability.

Mr. Ross was united in marriage October 15, 1861, to Miss Mary M. Gilman, of Churchville, New York, who survives him. He leaves no children.

DEWITT C. SMITH.-Dewitt Clinton Smith, of Brockway, died Novem

ber 10, 1892, in Port Huron, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. George Plaisted, aged 65 years. Mr. Smith was born in Amherst, Mass., September 3, 1827, was one of the earliest settlers of the county, coming to St. Clair with his father in 1836. He was a member of the Presbyterian church in which for many years he has been an earnest and faithful worker.

MRS. C. M. STOCKWELL.-Mrs. C. M. Stockwell died at her home in Port Huron, August 22, 1892. She had resided in Port Huron with her husband for forty-one years and her many friends will be pained to learn of her death. A husband, two sons and two daughters survive her, Dr. G. A. Stockwell of Detroit; Dr. C. B. Stockwell of Port Huron; Mrs. Walter McMillan of Detroit, and Mrs. Harry Hyde of Buffalo.

MR. JOSIAH WEST.-Mr. Josiah West, one of St. Clair's oldest citizens, died at the residence of his son, Mr. Fred West, in St. Clair township, July 30, 1892. Born in Middlesex, Vermont, December 15, 1804, he had nearly rounded out eighty-eight years of life. As a boy of ten he accompanied his parents, in 1814, to Broome county, N. Y. From there he moved to St. Clair in 1855. His residence has since been in this vicinity. For a number of years disease attendant upon old age had kept him confined to his room.

Over fifty years ago he became a member of the Baptist church. He was three times married, and the father of fourteen children, but four of whom are now living.

At one time during the late war he had four sons in the army of the Union forces.

MRS. CHARLES H. WATERLOO.-Mrs. Charles H. Waterloo died at her home in Port Huron, July 27, 1892.

She who was Mary Jane Beebe was born in Genesee county, New York, June 21, 1818. Both her father and mother came from old New England stock. Her ancestors were of those who sought, found, and helped maintain a home for the oppressed. With her brothers and sisters, of whom there was a goodly lot in that sturdy family, she was educated in an humble way in the public schools of Genesee and Cataraugus counties. In 1836, when this portion of Michigan was practically a wilderness, the family came to this State, the journey occupying several weeks, and located at what is now Richmond, in Macomb county. The settlement there established was long known as, and is still occasionally called, "Beebe's Corners "--a mark of distinction in a

way for the dominating family among Macomb's pioneers. They were not rich, these people who came here in the early days, but they were progressive. The men felled the forest, and with the first logs, after homes had been built, school houses were erected. In one of these homely places of learning Mary Beebe taught boys and girls who have since carried on the task inaugurated by the pioneers. The school house stood on the river bank near the site of Marysville. Red men in canoes filled the great water path in front that is now traversed by the craft of a mighty commerce.

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In November, 1844, the young school teacher was married at Richmond to Charles H. Waterloo, who, with his parents, brothers, and sisters, had left England some seventeen years before. The Waterloos had first established themselves on a farm near Detroit, but were Columbus township, St. Clair county. Here Charles and his wife began a married life that lasted nearly half a century. Their first home, like those all about them, was of logs, for they were in the heart of the woods. Turkeys so wild that they were not afraid of man, came to the very doorway to be shot. Deer and other game offered themselves as easy sacrifices to the growing family. In time the log house and barns gave place to prouder structures of frame. The children and the grainfields demanded it. Mr. Waterloo had been a successful farmer in a small way and had become well known in the community. In 1862 he was elected register of deeds of St. Clair county, and shortly thereafter abandoned farm life for a home in Port Huron. Here the homestead has remained. The house in which Mrs. Waterloo died, she had lived in and loved for twenty-eight years. Her children attended, and some of them taught in, the public schools of the county. Ten children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Waterloo. Two of them died more than two score years ago. Indeed the Almighty, in whom she had an abiding faith, had dealt kindly with her, in that she had seen a large family of children reach full maturity. These children are Stanley, Althea (Mrs. Jerome Campbell), Belle (Mrs. Frank Flower), Hattie, Charlie, Minnie (Mrs. Ed. Conway), Lucy, and Burke. All were with their mother at the time of her death with the exception of Stanley, and he arrived in time to attend the funeral. The pall bearers were the dead woman's own sons and Mr. Campbell, her son-in-law.

Mrs. Waterloo was a member of the Congregational church and had been for nearly thirty years. During long months of sickness and suffering she bore up bravely, and to the very last she taught to those around her a lesson of unselfishness, humanity, and immortality. The world is better because of such women as she.

MRS. CATHERINE YOUNG.-Mrs. Catherine Young, widow of the late James Young died at her home in Port Huron, April 29, 1893. She was born in Aberfeldy, Scotland, December 13, 1817, and was 76 years and 4 months old at the time of her death. She came to this country with her sister and settled in Detroit in 1830 and was married to James Young in 1832. They moved to Port Huron in 1837, being among the first settlers here. Mrs. Young watched Port Huron grow from a small settlement to a thriving city. Naturally of a retiring disposition and thoroughly devoted to her home and family, she was but little known except by the older settlers. By her death her children lose a loving mother, and they sincerely mourn their loss. Four daughters and two sons survive her, viz.: Mrs. Ann Greenfield of Detroit; Mrs. Jacob P. Haynes, Mrs. W. V. Elliott, Mrs. M. N. Petit, John M. and Wm. M. Young, of Port Huron.

ST. JOSEPH COUNTY.

BY HIRAM DRAPER.

MRS. WATSON PERKINS.-Mrs. Martha Perkins, relict of Watson Perkins, died at the home of her adopted daughter, Mrs. Anna Sturgis in township of Sturgis, May 28, 1892, aged 83 years. She was buried at White Pigeon.

MRS. ABRAHAM BUYS.-Mrs. Elizabeth Buys, relict of Abraham Buys, died June 9, 1892, in the 100th year of her age. She was an early settler in Colon township in 1834 or '35.

MRS. MARY SKIRVIN.-Mrs. Mary Skirvin died in Sturgis, May 20, 1892.

MRS. ELIZABETH EAMES.-Mrs. Elizabeth Eames died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Frank Roys of Florence, May 27, 1892, aged 77 years.

MRS. WILLIAM DICKINSON.-Mrs. Ann Dickinson, relict of the late William Dickinson of Florence, died at her home in Florence, June 4, 1892, aged 81 years. Was one of the early settlers of the township.

LYMAN RHOADES.-Lyman Rhoades died at his home in White Pigeon, June 1, 1892. Was born in Monroe, then called Frenchtown,