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Page last updated: 03/15/2008 02:08 PM
ELK RAPIDS EARLIEST SETTLERS
Alex McVicar :Are you one of several hundred descendants?? Researched by: Elden Johnson, East Jordan, MI., e-mail: eldenj@hotmail.com |
| Alex McVicar's story is not very well documented compared to that of Amos
Wood. It seems likely that they arrived together; walking here from Grand Rapids with A.
S. Wadsworth but Amos doesn't mention him in "Biographical History of Northern
Michigan" until later. Lydia McLaughlin wrote that when she arrived with her family
in November 1851, only two families were her, those of Amos Wood and Alexander McVicar. James J. McLaughlin says in "The Traverse Region" that McVicar took his family to Round Lake (Skegemog) to work for a man named Wells lumbering there with a pair of oxen. A note in this source says that in the summer of 1852 McLaughlin went south to bring back a pair of oxen and a cow and that shortly after this Alexander McVicar came from Canada bringing his father's family. Anne J. McVicar Brand's obituary says that she came to Elk Rapids in August 1852, fixing a date to when Alex returned to Elk Rapids with his father, mother and siblings. We know that Amos served as a chain man on Abram's survey party in 1853 and sometime after this he and Alexander took passage on a sailboat to Chicago for pay and worked on a trading vessel on the Grand River. One of the reasons we know so little about Alexander McVicar and his wife, Charlotte, is that, despite their significance as pioneers, the Elk Rapids Progress took little notice of their deaths in 1889 and 1883 respectively. Alexander and Charlotte had 12 children. After Charlotte died, Alexander married Sarah Ann (Griffin) Santose and had two more. The family tree as we know it today is as follows: John McVicar b. 4-23-1796, d. 9-16-1878 + Mary A. Westbury b. 8-2-1800, d. 7-25-1881 Ann J. McVicar b. 10-25-1837,d. 1-25-1903 + James P. Brand b. 1826, d. 1905 Elizabeth McVicar b. ca. 1841 + David Parks Alexander G. McVicar b. ca. 1830, d. 2-9-1889 + Charlotte _____ b. ca. 1831, d. 2-8-1883 Mary F. McVicar b. ca. 1850 George William McV. b. ca. 1853 + Clara Filer b. ca. 1861 Almon Crory McV. b. 3-15-1886 Earl McVicar Zell McVicar Armenia J. McVicar b. ca. 1854 Josephine McVicar b. ca 1855 + Edwin Ruthven Elliott Unnamed child b.(& d.?)9-9-1884 Simon McVicar b. ca. 1856 Susan McVicar b. ca. 1857 + William I. Osborne b. 1850, d. 1916 Annie Elizabeth McV. b. ca. 1859, d. 1920 + Joseph Beaver Allison b. 1848, d. 1911 Cara Josephine b. 11-19-1875 Francis Harrison b. 4-8-1878 John Alexander b. 9-22-1883 + Ela Long Maggie b. ca. 1886 + Walter Van Lewen John b. ca. 1861 Jane Luella b. 1868, d. 2-27-1905 + Daniel Filer b. 1859, d. 8-8-1935 Verne Samuel b. 5-10-1889 Lulu b. 4-12-1895 Nellie b. 3-26-1898 Jennie S. b. 3-16-1868 Jessie M. b. 5-21-1870, d. 9-19-1877 Nettie b. ca. 1872 + Harry Palmer Florencew b. 7-23-1892 Clarence b. 8-19-1895 + Sarah Ann (Griffin) Santose b. ca. 1837 Pearl b. 6-11-1886 Alexander b. 1-23-1889 I |