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WALTS FAMILY
Peter Walts, son of Conrad and Margaret Walts from near Watertown, N.Y.
was from a family of 9 children. He married Catherine Ann Relyea from
Lewisville, N.Y. in 1825. After living for a time on Conrad’s farm in
Jefferson county, NY, they moved to Forest, Wisconsin. By that time they
had 3 children. They moved to Michigan in 1855 by way of Chicago to
Dexter by stagecoach and from there they came on to Burns Township by
oxen and wagon carrying their goods. Peter had bought 100 acres of land
at $3.00 per acre from Warren Clough. This became the Walts homestead on
Vernon Road. Three more children were born to them. They built a log
cabin in 1855 and a large frame house in 1857. A smaller house was built
in 1889 for their son Charles and his wife Sophia Ulmer just directly to
the south of the big house. Charles inherited the farm. A sister of
Charles, Sarah married Ed. Gault. Charles and Sophia’s children were Ray
and Roy. Ray never married and Roy married Helene Case. They operated a
chicken hatchery and poultry farm a mile east of the old homestead.
Their son, Charles married Dorothy Hudgins and after her death he
married Helen Vandemark Kirby. After Uncle Ray died, the original
farmhouse was restored and Charles and Helen live there today. Charles
and Dorothy had 2 daughters, Judith and Susan. Judith’s daughter Pamela
and her husband Allen Adamaitis now live on the farm where her great
grandparents, Roy and Helene lived and operated the hatchery.
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