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Lenawee County By John J. Adam, February 7th, 1878.
They finally pitched upon their relative and friend,.Joseph W. Brown, if they could induce him to go in with them. And certainly no better pioneer for such a purpose could well have been found. After going through all the hardships and privations necessarily attendant •on such an enterprise, he has long survived both his partners—Mr. Wing having died at Cleveland, Ohio, in August, 1869,and Mr. Evans after the death of his wife, at Tecumseh, went to Texas, where he soon caught a fever which carried him off. His two sons, both seeming to be imbued with the spirit of adventure of their father, had previously gone to the republic of Texas, and were both killed at the battle of the Alamo, bravely fighting for the liberty and independence of their adopted country.
Although the Hon. Austin E. Wing, of the firm of Wing, Evans & Brown, was not himself strictly a settler in Lenawee county, yet as he was largely identified with its early history, and as Monroe and Lenawee were virtually all one county for the first two or three years of the settlement of the latter, he may be considered in some sense as a Lenawee county pioneer.
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