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Doraville Whitney was the
first Black settler in Isabella County in 1860. The first documentation of
an African-American settler in Mecosta County Michigan was James Guy.
His deed was signed by Abraham Lincoln. He obtained 160 acres in Wheatland
Township on May 30, 1861. Lloyd & Margaret Guy were the first
Black settlers in Montcalm County in 1861. The Homestead Act of 1862 allowed each
settler 160 acres in Michigan. By 1873 African-Americans owned
1,392 acres in the three counties of Isabella, Mecosta and Montcalm.
In the 1860's most of the land in Remus was owned by the Old Settlers. |
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SECTION 1
Daniel
Pointer
SECTION 2
Charles Pointer
SECTION 3
Pointer Family Pictures
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Charles Pointer
Pictures
Courtesy of Raymond Pointer &
Peter Byrd
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| Allan & Nancy
Pointer-Guy |
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Charles Pointer & John Berry |
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Charlie
Pointer, Jr. & Johnnie Bracy |
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Boyhood
Friends in Little River
Stanley Pointer oldest son of
Charles Pointer & Mary Kate Berry
Raymond Pointer second son
Elmer Ezra Porter
Oldest son of Ida & Emmett Porter
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Charles
Summer Pointer and Mary Clarissa Berry were united in marriage on November
11, 1890. To this union ten children were born: Henry Stanley,
Oct 16, 1891; William Ray, Aug 28, 1893; Ruth Ester, April 5, 1895;
Freddie, died in infancy; Charles Sumner, Jr., March 22, 1898; Cecelia
Grace, Oct 6, 1900; Nancy Jane; September 11, 1901; Leslie Gilbert, April
17, 1903; Louis Glen, May 28, 1905 and John Benjamin, February 12, 1907.
Charles and
Mary Pointer lived their entire lives on the same farm, with their
children having been born in the same house. Charles lived to be 72
years. He was born in 1863 and died September, 1935. Mary
Clarissa Berry was born near Windsor, Canada on February 6, 1864.
She served as a mid-wife in the community, bring many of the Old Settlers'
descendants into the world. She lived to be 103 years old. She
died September 8, 1967.
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PICTURE COURTESY OF RAYMOND POINTER
Back: Ray Pointer, Charles
Pointer, Homer Cross,
Lindley
Norman, Roscoe Cross
Bottom: Sam Cross, Ruben Berry,
Oscar Norman |
Thomas Pointer and wife Maria were the parents of
the following children: Emma, Mary, Bell and Sara. Emma
married Russell Tate. Mary married Julius Robinson. Belle (Lina)
married Thomas Guy. Sara married Charles Guy. Thomas was a
brother to Daniel Pointer who raised Aaron Morgan, Isaiah Melvin and
Gabriel Green.
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Stanley Pointer, Ray Pointer &
Elmer Porter |
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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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