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Lenawee County By John J. Adam, February 7th, 1878.
The first school-house was a log one, built in 1829; and now they have in that neighborhood a two-story brick one and five other good comfortable frame school-houses. For the first two or three years the early settlers had to go to Monroe to market, to mill, to post-office, for a blacksmth shop, and for a doctor. It is related by one of the Kedzie family that one of them had once to go a distance of five miles on a winter morning for fire or the means of making one. And they were not the only pioneers of Lenawee county who had occasionally to go quite a distance on like errands, as those times were long before the days of friction matches. Another incident showing the difficulties and hardships of early pioneer life in Lenawee county was told by L. Ormsby, Esq., of Deerfield, at a meeting of the Kedzie family and others held there in August, 1876. He stated that Mr. Kedzie, the father, once took a grist to mill at Monroe, and when he got there the mill was out of repair and he had to bring it back unground.
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