"ERASTUS BACON
Erastus Bacon, Esq., died at the home of his son, Theodore, in Pontiac town, aged 74 years.
Mr. Bacon was born in Jefferson county, New York, April 11, 1813. He came to Michigan with his father, Levi Bacon, in 1832. For a brief time they remained at Lima, Washtenaw county, moving to Pontiac in 1836, settling in Auburn, where he lived a few years and then moved to the village of Pontiac. The family of Levi Bacon, Sr., consisted of seven sons, John, Erastus, Levi, Jr., Alanson, Albert, George and Corbin, who at one time all lived in Auburn, where John and Erastus (the deceased) sold goods. Of the family but one survives, George, who resides at Spokane Falls, Washington Territory. The deceased lived in this city for some 40 years; during this period he was justice of the peace for one or more terms. About ten years ago his son, Theodore, purchased the Fred. Voorheis farm, where the deceased spent the remnant of his days in seclusiveness, seldom leaving the farm.
He was by nature genial and social; a man of strong enduring attachments for friends. He was strong in his convictions on national questions. Among American statesmen, Henry Clay was his idol, and when defeated for the presidency, he lamented with a feeling akin to remorse. After the death of his favorite champion, he joined the democratic party, with whom he affiliated until his death with all his former interest and fidelity to principle; He was a marked character with idiosyncracies of life that will cause him to be remembered. He clung to life with great tenacity, and in his suffering seemed determined not to yield to the encroachment of the fatal disease. He leaves a wife and one son."
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(from MPHS Collections: "Collections and Researches Made by the Pioneer and Historical Society" Vol.13 (1889), pp.255-256)
Erastus Bacon, Esq., died at the home of his son, Theodore, in Pontiac town, aged 74 years.
Mr. Bacon was born in Jefferson county, New York, April 11, 1813. He came to Michigan with his father, Levi Bacon, in 1832. For a brief time they remained at Lima, Washtenaw county, moving to Pontiac in 1836, settling in Auburn, where he lived a few years and then moved to the village of Pontiac. The family of Levi Bacon, Sr., consisted of seven sons, John, Erastus, Levi, Jr., Alanson, Albert, George and Corbin, who at one time all lived in Auburn, where John and Erastus (the deceased) sold goods. Of the family but one survives, George, who resides at Spokane Falls, Washington Territory. The deceased lived in this city for some 40 years; during this period he was justice of the peace for one or more terms. About ten years ago his son, Theodore, purchased the Fred. Voorheis farm, where the deceased spent the remnant of his days in seclusiveness, seldom leaving the farm.
He was by nature genial and social; a man of strong enduring attachments for friends. He was strong in his convictions on national questions. Among American statesmen, Henry Clay was his idol, and when defeated for the presidency, he lamented with a feeling akin to remorse. After the death of his favorite champion, he joined the democratic party, with whom he affiliated until his death with all his former interest and fidelity to principle; He was a marked character with idiosyncracies of life that will cause him to be remembered. He clung to life with great tenacity, and in his suffering seemed determined not to yield to the encroachment of the fatal disease. He leaves a wife and one son."
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(from MPHS Collections: "Collections and Researches Made by the Pioneer and Historical Society" Vol.13 (1889), pp.255-256)
"ERASTUS BACON
Erastus Bacon, Esq., died at the home of his son, Theodore, in Pontiac town, aged 74 years.
Mr. Bacon was born in Jefferson county, New York, April 11, 1813. He came to Michigan with his father, Levi Bacon, in 1832. For a brief time they remained at Lima, Washtenaw county, moving to Pontiac in 1836, settling in Auburn, where he lived a few years and then moved to the village of Pontiac. The family of Levi Bacon, Sr., consisted of seven sons, John, Erastus, Levi, Jr., Alanson, Albert, George and Corbin, who at one time all lived in Auburn, where John and Erastus (the deceased) sold goods. Of the family but one survives, George, who resides at Spokane Falls, Washington Territory. The deceased lived in this city for some 40 years; during this period he was justice of the peace for one or more terms. About ten years ago his son, Theodore, purchased the Fred. Voorheis farm, where the deceased spent the remnant of his days in seclusiveness, seldom leaving the farm.
He was by nature genial and social; a man of strong enduring attachments for friends. He was strong in his convictions on national questions. Among American statesmen, Henry Clay was his idol, and when defeated for the presidency, he lamented with a feeling akin to remorse. After the death of his favorite champion, he joined the democratic party, with whom he affiliated until his death with all his former interest and fidelity to principle; He was a marked character with idiosyncracies of life that will cause him to be remembered. He clung to life with great tenacity, and in his suffering seemed determined not to yield to the encroachment of the fatal disease. He leaves a wife and one son."
~~~
(from MPHS Collections: "Collections and Researches Made by the Pioneer and Historical Society" Vol.13 (1889), pp.255-256)
Erastus Bacon, Esq., died at the home of his son, Theodore, in Pontiac town, aged 74 years.
Mr. Bacon was born in Jefferson county, New York, April 11, 1813. He came to Michigan with his father, Levi Bacon, in 1832. For a brief time they remained at Lima, Washtenaw county, moving to Pontiac in 1836, settling in Auburn, where he lived a few years and then moved to the village of Pontiac. The family of Levi Bacon, Sr., consisted of seven sons, John, Erastus, Levi, Jr., Alanson, Albert, George and Corbin, who at one time all lived in Auburn, where John and Erastus (the deceased) sold goods. Of the family but one survives, George, who resides at Spokane Falls, Washington Territory. The deceased lived in this city for some 40 years; during this period he was justice of the peace for one or more terms. About ten years ago his son, Theodore, purchased the Fred. Voorheis farm, where the deceased spent the remnant of his days in seclusiveness, seldom leaving the farm.
He was by nature genial and social; a man of strong enduring attachments for friends. He was strong in his convictions on national questions. Among American statesmen, Henry Clay was his idol, and when defeated for the presidency, he lamented with a feeling akin to remorse. After the death of his favorite champion, he joined the democratic party, with whom he affiliated until his death with all his former interest and fidelity to principle; He was a marked character with idiosyncracies of life that will cause him to be remembered. He clung to life with great tenacity, and in his suffering seemed determined not to yield to the encroachment of the fatal disease. He leaves a wife and one son."
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(from MPHS Collections: "Collections and Researches Made by the Pioneer and Historical Society" Vol.13 (1889), pp.255-256)
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ERASTUS BACON
BORN
APR. 11, 1813
DIED
DEC. 10, 1887
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