Entry from "Earliest Settlers of Putnam Twp before the Village of Pinckney," by Milton Everette Charboneau, p19:
Jacob Sigler, Jr. was born about 1824 in New York state. He was about age nine when his father Jacob started his roadhouse on the Dexter Pinckney road. Like many large families in a business like that, they often had to give up their bed so that travelers and their children might have a place of rest, while they bedded down in the lean-to or the barn.
Young Jacob had some schooling, but farm work, and work around the public house left only the winter months for school work.
He met and married Mary Lydia Backus of Iosco, maybe at a dance or a farm "bee" where families gathered at a neighbors place to build a barn, or to harvest crops. The marriage was done by Daniel Person, Justice of the Peace of Iosco Twp on April 9, 1844. By the 1850 census Jacob Jr. was age 26 years and Lydia 25 years old. They had one child, Frank, born about 1846 in Putnam. They were living with his mother Mary Sigler on the old homestead which he had acquired from his parents. (snip) Life had been hard on Mary and she died Jan. 8, 1851 at the young age of 26 years, maybe from consumption or childbirth, which were the most common causes of death to young adults. Burial was in Pinckney.
On July 6, 1851 Jacob Jr. married a second time to Sarah Rowley, age 16 years, of Washtenaw county. (snip) The couple had three boys and two girls, and it was from these children that the next three generations of doctors would come and bring Pinckney some serious fame. (snip)
Jacob Sigler Jr. died March 16, 1882. He was buried in the Pinckney Cemetery by Charles Plimton, the Pinckney undertaker at a cost of $60. His wife Sarah lived with his sons until her death in 1911.
Jacob Sigler, Jr. was born about 1824 in New York state. He was about age nine when his father Jacob started his roadhouse on the Dexter Pinckney road. Like many large families in a business like that, they often had to give up their bed so that travelers and their children might have a place of rest, while they bedded down in the lean-to or the barn.
Young Jacob had some schooling, but farm work, and work around the public house left only the winter months for school work.
He met and married Mary Lydia Backus of Iosco, maybe at a dance or a farm "bee" where families gathered at a neighbors place to build a barn, or to harvest crops. The marriage was done by Daniel Person, Justice of the Peace of Iosco Twp on April 9, 1844. By the 1850 census Jacob Jr. was age 26 years and Lydia 25 years old. They had one child, Frank, born about 1846 in Putnam. They were living with his mother Mary Sigler on the old homestead which he had acquired from his parents. (snip) Life had been hard on Mary and she died Jan. 8, 1851 at the young age of 26 years, maybe from consumption or childbirth, which were the most common causes of death to young adults. Burial was in Pinckney.
On July 6, 1851 Jacob Jr. married a second time to Sarah Rowley, age 16 years, of Washtenaw county. (snip) The couple had three boys and two girls, and it was from these children that the next three generations of doctors would come and bring Pinckney some serious fame. (snip)
Jacob Sigler Jr. died March 16, 1882. He was buried in the Pinckney Cemetery by Charles Plimton, the Pinckney undertaker at a cost of $60. His wife Sarah lived with his sons until her death in 1911.
Entry from "Earliest Settlers of Putnam Twp before the Village of Pinckney," by Milton Everette Charboneau, p19:
Jacob Sigler, Jr. was born about 1824 in New York state. He was about age nine when his father Jacob started his roadhouse on the Dexter Pinckney road. Like many large families in a business like that, they often had to give up their bed so that travelers and their children might have a place of rest, while they bedded down in the lean-to or the barn.
Young Jacob had some schooling, but farm work, and work around the public house left only the winter months for school work.
He met and married Mary Lydia Backus of Iosco, maybe at a dance or a farm "bee" where families gathered at a neighbors place to build a barn, or to harvest crops. The marriage was done by Daniel Person, Justice of the Peace of Iosco Twp on April 9, 1844. By the 1850 census Jacob Jr. was age 26 years and Lydia 25 years old. They had one child, Frank, born about 1846 in Putnam. They were living with his mother Mary Sigler on the old homestead which he had acquired from his parents. (snip) Life had been hard on Mary and she died Jan. 8, 1851 at the young age of 26 years, maybe from consumption or childbirth, which were the most common causes of death to young adults. Burial was in Pinckney.
On July 6, 1851 Jacob Jr. married a second time to Sarah Rowley, age 16 years, of Washtenaw county. (snip) The couple had three boys and two girls, and it was from these children that the next three generations of doctors would come and bring Pinckney some serious fame. (snip)
Jacob Sigler Jr. died March 16, 1882. He was buried in the Pinckney Cemetery by Charles Plimton, the Pinckney undertaker at a cost of $60. His wife Sarah lived with his sons until her death in 1911.
Jacob Sigler, Jr. was born about 1824 in New York state. He was about age nine when his father Jacob started his roadhouse on the Dexter Pinckney road. Like many large families in a business like that, they often had to give up their bed so that travelers and their children might have a place of rest, while they bedded down in the lean-to or the barn.
Young Jacob had some schooling, but farm work, and work around the public house left only the winter months for school work.
He met and married Mary Lydia Backus of Iosco, maybe at a dance or a farm "bee" where families gathered at a neighbors place to build a barn, or to harvest crops. The marriage was done by Daniel Person, Justice of the Peace of Iosco Twp on April 9, 1844. By the 1850 census Jacob Jr. was age 26 years and Lydia 25 years old. They had one child, Frank, born about 1846 in Putnam. They were living with his mother Mary Sigler on the old homestead which he had acquired from his parents. (snip) Life had been hard on Mary and she died Jan. 8, 1851 at the young age of 26 years, maybe from consumption or childbirth, which were the most common causes of death to young adults. Burial was in Pinckney.
On July 6, 1851 Jacob Jr. married a second time to Sarah Rowley, age 16 years, of Washtenaw county. (snip) The couple had three boys and two girls, and it was from these children that the next three generations of doctors would come and bring Pinckney some serious fame. (snip)
Jacob Sigler Jr. died March 16, 1882. He was buried in the Pinckney Cemetery by Charles Plimton, the Pinckney undertaker at a cost of $60. His wife Sarah lived with his sons until her death in 1911.
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