Joseph Parmenter died at the home of his son Amos Parmenter Friday morning May 13 1892, aged nearly eighty two years. He was the son of Amos and Mary Parmenter and was born July 5 1810, in the town of Canaan, Essex county, Vt.
From there he moved to Truxton NY residing there twenty years. On March 4 1835 he was married to Miss Sallie Irons and in September following moved to Michigan which was then recognized as the far west. He settled in Shiawassee county and has lived in this county since with the exception of six years spent in Ovid, Clinton county. He professed religion in 1830 uniting with the Baptist church of Peterborough NY. The first religious meeting held in Shiawassee county himself and wife were present forming one third of those present. This was in the fall of 1835. The following year the number had increased to twelve and they formed a church known as the Shiawassee town Baptist church. While residing at Ovid he held his membership with the Laingsburgh church. In 1848 he moved back to Vernon holding his membership in this church from that time.
In 1848 he buried his wife and in the following spring was married to Mary E Grant whom he has survived a little more than eight years... He leaves three sons and two daughters to mourn his loss.
{Michigan Historical Collections, Volume 21, By Michigan Historical Commission, 1913, p. 244, , accessed 8 Nov 2019}
Jesse Parmenter is the fourth born child in a family of eight born to his parents, Joseph and Sally Irons Parmenter, natives of Vermont and New York state respectively.
In the year 1834 Joseph Parmenter was a pioneer to the state of Michigan and in Shiawasse county he preempted fifty five acres of land. Here the young man met with all the trials that were the inevitable lot of a newcomer in a new land and he had the not unusual experience of having to clear a spot of virgin trees before he could find space to put up a log cabin. The cabin when completed was primitive enough in its type the logs unhewn and elm bark used for roofing with roughly split logs for the floor. Mr Parmenter was the ninth white man to settle in the county and it will be conceded that he had a generous amount of courage else he would not have ventured as far as he did for after spending a few months in his new location and building a sort of shelter for himself he returned to the east, married in the following winter in the year 1835, and moved back to the wilds of Michigan with his bride...
{History of Wabash County Indiana, Volume 2,edited by Clarkson W. Weesner, 1914, p. 560-1, , acessed 8 Nov 2019}
From there he moved to Truxton NY residing there twenty years. On March 4 1835 he was married to Miss Sallie Irons and in September following moved to Michigan which was then recognized as the far west. He settled in Shiawassee county and has lived in this county since with the exception of six years spent in Ovid, Clinton county. He professed religion in 1830 uniting with the Baptist church of Peterborough NY. The first religious meeting held in Shiawassee county himself and wife were present forming one third of those present. This was in the fall of 1835. The following year the number had increased to twelve and they formed a church known as the Shiawassee town Baptist church. While residing at Ovid he held his membership with the Laingsburgh church. In 1848 he moved back to Vernon holding his membership in this church from that time.
In 1848 he buried his wife and in the following spring was married to Mary E Grant whom he has survived a little more than eight years... He leaves three sons and two daughters to mourn his loss.
{Michigan Historical Collections, Volume 21, By Michigan Historical Commission, 1913, p. 244, , accessed 8 Nov 2019}
Jesse Parmenter is the fourth born child in a family of eight born to his parents, Joseph and Sally Irons Parmenter, natives of Vermont and New York state respectively.
In the year 1834 Joseph Parmenter was a pioneer to the state of Michigan and in Shiawasse county he preempted fifty five acres of land. Here the young man met with all the trials that were the inevitable lot of a newcomer in a new land and he had the not unusual experience of having to clear a spot of virgin trees before he could find space to put up a log cabin. The cabin when completed was primitive enough in its type the logs unhewn and elm bark used for roofing with roughly split logs for the floor. Mr Parmenter was the ninth white man to settle in the county and it will be conceded that he had a generous amount of courage else he would not have ventured as far as he did for after spending a few months in his new location and building a sort of shelter for himself he returned to the east, married in the following winter in the year 1835, and moved back to the wilds of Michigan with his bride...
{History of Wabash County Indiana, Volume 2,edited by Clarkson W. Weesner, 1914, p. 560-1, , acessed 8 Nov 2019}
Joseph Parmenter died at the home of his son Amos Parmenter Friday morning May 13 1892, aged nearly eighty two years. He was the son of Amos and Mary Parmenter and was born July 5 1810, in the town of Canaan, Essex county, Vt.
From there he moved to Truxton NY residing there twenty years. On March 4 1835 he was married to Miss Sallie Irons and in September following moved to Michigan which was then recognized as the far west. He settled in Shiawassee county and has lived in this county since with the exception of six years spent in Ovid, Clinton county. He professed religion in 1830 uniting with the Baptist church of Peterborough NY. The first religious meeting held in Shiawassee county himself and wife were present forming one third of those present. This was in the fall of 1835. The following year the number had increased to twelve and they formed a church known as the Shiawassee town Baptist church. While residing at Ovid he held his membership with the Laingsburgh church. In 1848 he moved back to Vernon holding his membership in this church from that time.
In 1848 he buried his wife and in the following spring was married to Mary E Grant whom he has survived a little more than eight years... He leaves three sons and two daughters to mourn his loss.
{Michigan Historical Collections, Volume 21, By Michigan Historical Commission, 1913, p. 244, , accessed 8 Nov 2019}
Jesse Parmenter is the fourth born child in a family of eight born to his parents, Joseph and Sally Irons Parmenter, natives of Vermont and New York state respectively.
In the year 1834 Joseph Parmenter was a pioneer to the state of Michigan and in Shiawasse county he preempted fifty five acres of land. Here the young man met with all the trials that were the inevitable lot of a newcomer in a new land and he had the not unusual experience of having to clear a spot of virgin trees before he could find space to put up a log cabin. The cabin when completed was primitive enough in its type the logs unhewn and elm bark used for roofing with roughly split logs for the floor. Mr Parmenter was the ninth white man to settle in the county and it will be conceded that he had a generous amount of courage else he would not have ventured as far as he did for after spending a few months in his new location and building a sort of shelter for himself he returned to the east, married in the following winter in the year 1835, and moved back to the wilds of Michigan with his bride...
{History of Wabash County Indiana, Volume 2,edited by Clarkson W. Weesner, 1914, p. 560-1, , acessed 8 Nov 2019}
From there he moved to Truxton NY residing there twenty years. On March 4 1835 he was married to Miss Sallie Irons and in September following moved to Michigan which was then recognized as the far west. He settled in Shiawassee county and has lived in this county since with the exception of six years spent in Ovid, Clinton county. He professed religion in 1830 uniting with the Baptist church of Peterborough NY. The first religious meeting held in Shiawassee county himself and wife were present forming one third of those present. This was in the fall of 1835. The following year the number had increased to twelve and they formed a church known as the Shiawassee town Baptist church. While residing at Ovid he held his membership with the Laingsburgh church. In 1848 he moved back to Vernon holding his membership in this church from that time.
In 1848 he buried his wife and in the following spring was married to Mary E Grant whom he has survived a little more than eight years... He leaves three sons and two daughters to mourn his loss.
{Michigan Historical Collections, Volume 21, By Michigan Historical Commission, 1913, p. 244, , accessed 8 Nov 2019}
Jesse Parmenter is the fourth born child in a family of eight born to his parents, Joseph and Sally Irons Parmenter, natives of Vermont and New York state respectively.
In the year 1834 Joseph Parmenter was a pioneer to the state of Michigan and in Shiawasse county he preempted fifty five acres of land. Here the young man met with all the trials that were the inevitable lot of a newcomer in a new land and he had the not unusual experience of having to clear a spot of virgin trees before he could find space to put up a log cabin. The cabin when completed was primitive enough in its type the logs unhewn and elm bark used for roofing with roughly split logs for the floor. Mr Parmenter was the ninth white man to settle in the county and it will be conceded that he had a generous amount of courage else he would not have ventured as far as he did for after spending a few months in his new location and building a sort of shelter for himself he returned to the east, married in the following winter in the year 1835, and moved back to the wilds of Michigan with his bride...
{History of Wabash County Indiana, Volume 2,edited by Clarkson W. Weesner, 1914, p. 560-1, , acessed 8 Nov 2019}
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