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The first documentation of an
African-American settler in Mecosta
County Michigan was James Guy, who
obtained 160 acres in Wheatland Township
on May 30, 1861. By 1873
African-Americans owned 1,392 acres. The
Homestead Act of 1862 allowed each
settler 160 acres in Rolland Township.
Most of the land where Remus sits in the
1860's was owned by the Old Settlers.
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 SECTION 1
Thomas Harris, Sr. Family Pictures
SECTION 2
Walter Harris Family
SECTION 3
Harris
Family Pictures
SECTION 4
Ace Red Cloud
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Chief Jerome Ace
Red Cloud
Photographs Courtesy of Ken Todd
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Ace Harris AKA Chief Jerome Ace Red Cloud |
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101 Ranch Show Chief Jerome Red Cloud,
Wife Agnes Rose
Dog
Red Cloud
Children Mary and Alice Red Cloud |
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Back Left to Right Men: Duane Barnes,
Bob Harrison, &
Raymond Dunn
Front Ladies L
to R: Dolores Crazybear
Margie Dunn, Dorothy White Harrison
Marlene
Lovejoy DuBois & Tani Russo
Ace Jerome (Harris) Red Cloud's
Grandchildren
Children of Mary (Harris) Red Cloud
Crazybear
& Alice (Harris)
Red Cloud White Lovejoy West
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The
Many Faces of "Red Cloud" |
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Ace "Red Cloud" |
Ace "Red Cloud" |
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Walter Harris, Sr., Dorothy Harris
& Ace Harris Red Cloud |
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There are "Old Settlers" who came from Canada
via "The Underground Railroad." It was the
most dramatic nonviolent protest against
slavery in the United States that began in
the Colonial Era and reached its peak between
1830 and 1865. An estimated 30,000 to 100,000
slaves used the "railroad" to get to Canada;
many others escaped to Mexico, the Caribbean,
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