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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. 

 

 

SECTION 1

Daniel Pointer

 

SECTION 2

Charles Pointer

 

SECTION 3

Pointer Family Pictures
 

Pointer Family Pictures

Courtesy of:  Raymond Pointer &

Teresa O’Riley-McCrosky

 

Charles & Sadie Pointer's

Wedding Picture

 

Leslie Pointer, Rueben Berry

& Dewey Johnson

 

Elmer Porter and Stanley Pointer

 

Leslie & Kate Pointer

 

Ray W. Pointer

 

Grandma Pointer & Judy Jackson

 

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

 

Bobby Newman, Glen Pointer, Wayne Newman

Charles S. Pointer, John Berry II

 

Ray W.  Pointer & Lindley Norman

 

John and Kitty (Norman) Pointer

on Their Wedding Day

 

Lyle, Eleanor, Raymond Pointer

 

William Delaney &

Daniel Pointer

Cora Tiny Pointer

 

 

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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.