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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 3
Ace Red Cloud
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Harris Family Pictures
Pictures
Courtesy of Ken Todd
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Back: Joyce
Cook, Richard Harris
Carl Richardson
Front: Betty Harris Roberts, Donna Seals
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Elizabeth (Betty) Harris Richardson Roberts
Family after her
funeral - March 15, 2003
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Dorothy Harris, Mary (Harris) Moore
Betty (Harris - Richardson) Roberts |
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Juanita (Harris)
Norman |
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Irene (Todd) Norman, Walter Harris, Sr.
Verda (Harris) Todd |
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Juanita (Harris) Norman |
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Juanita Harris, Walter Harris, Sr.
& Dorothy Harris |
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Walter Harris Jr.
Age 15 |
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Edith Carter Harris
Gertrude Harris
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Dorothy Harris, Thomas Scholzen &
Baby Chandra Todd |
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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,
and Europe.
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