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Peggy (Sawyer) Williams
Other Pictures Courtesy of Marvin Lett
Deonna (Todd) Green, Robert Hill Williams
& Barb Nelson
Lett Families
Samuel Lett
1840 - 1903
Civil War
Aquilla Lett
Jan 12, 1829 - Feb 20, 1902
(Civil War)
Horton & Emma Stokes-Lett
Son of Samuel Lett (1814) &
Catherine Collins
Samuel Lett was son of
Benjamin Lett & Mary Polly Caliman
Grandson of Samuel Lett
& Jemima Banneker
Emma Stokes-Lett &
Daughter Mame Lett
John and Matt Lett. John was a son
of
James and Margaret Lett and a
grandson
of Aquilla Lett, Sr. and Christina
Cobbler-Lett.
From early records it is known that the Othias Lett
family relocated to Michigan from Morgan and/or Meigs Counties, Ohio in the
mid 1800's. Othias B. Lett (1810 - 1876) and Sophia (Stevens) Lett
(1815 - 1897) moved to Mecosta County, Michigan.
The
1860 Michigan Federal Census in Sodus Twp., Berrien County, listed Othias B.
and family. Their children's names were: Rebecca, Jonathan, Esther,
Harriet, Alben, Sophia, Emma, and Salina. Othias B. died in Sodus,
Michigan in 1876. Sophia
Stevens was born (1815 in Berrien County, Michigan) and married Othias B. Lett
(1810 - 1876). Othias was the son of Samuel and Jemima Banneker-Lett
and was born
on December 20, 1833, in Muskingum County, Ohio. Through Elizabeth Lett-Stevens, the Letts are descendants of Benjamin Banneker,
the noted African-American astronomer, mathematician and almanac writer. Elizabeth Lett-Stevens' father, Aquilla Lett, Sr. was the oldest child of Samuel and
Jemina Banneker-Lett.
One of their
daughters, Esther M. Lett married Joseph Cummings. Their children were
David, Aquilla, Johanna, Joseph, Samuel, Ida, Elijah, William, Martha,
Millie, Othias, Jr., Esther, Nettie, Lucy and Jane.
David was born
in Ohio in 1869. He married Mary Jane Harper and lived on a small farm
on County Line Road (Costabella Road) in Isabella County.
Aquilla Lett
was born January 12, 1829. He married Jane Caliman, daughter of
Benjamin Caliman on March 4, 1856. He was a volunteer in the Union
Army, 1864-1865 in the 13th Michigan Infantry. To this union four
children were born: Armintha, Stanley, William, Elsworth and Lusetta.
Aquilla died in 1902 and is buried in Arlington, Michigan. Sarah Jane
died in 1887 in Van Buren County, Arlington, Michigan.
Samuel Lett's (1839 - 1903) parents were Elijah
Lett and Susan Stevens. He married Henrietta Taylor (1846 - 1932). They had five children.
Samuel, born in Morgan County, Ohio later served in the Civil War, enlisting
from Grand Rapids, Michigan, August 31, 1864.
Elijah Lett Married Susan Stevens. William Lett
first married Joanah Harper, daughter of Alexander and Susanna (Cummings)
Harper and married Minerva Guy. Martha Lett married Benjamin F. Guy.
Millie Lett was married but spouse is not known. Othias, Jr. Lett
married Lynn Mason. Esther Lett married Joseph Cummings. Nettie
Lett married Frank Lavins and had a son J. Frank, Jr.
Aquilla Lett -
Lytlesburg Cemetery
John Lett
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