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Michigan OAKLAND COUNTY
After the hardships of the journey had been endured they found themselves in an unbroken wilderness. The sun in its daily round scarcely shown upon its surface, save where Walled lake glanced and glittered in its light. Home and its comforts they had yet to create. They were sick and no physician; wanted bread, and flouring mill twenty mills away. In strength, in weakness, in health, in disease, through storm and sunshine, they must struggle on in the stern battle-Why, you say, what could induce them to do this? I answer: they were men and women of limited means; they wanted a home for themselves and families after them, and hope hung her bow of promise, her glittering pennon in the far west of their lives. Between them and fruition all these trials must be endured—all these adverse circumstances met and conquered. And right nobly have they fulfilled their mission-On some it may be the sun went down before they reached the goal,
Oakland Co. Michigan
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