Alvah Fuller's Obiturary, Carlton Township, Barry County, Michigan

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ALVAH FULLER
[The Hastings Banner, Nov. 7, 1906, pg 9]
CARLTON--Philo Fuller received the sad news of his brother Alvah's death
who resided in the state of New York.

"Landmarks of Orleans County, New York", pg 182 tells that "Fuller, Alva
A., is a lineal descendant of Reuben, who was born in Wilmington, Pa.,
May 7, 1800, and came to the town of Carlton, then a part of Genesee
county, in 1812, and purchased a tract of land containing 300 acres,
where his son, Reuben E., father of Alvah, now resides.  Reuben E. was
born on this farm August 3, 1832, and his wife was Celia Fuller, born
November 4, 1834, in Carlton.  The children of Reuben E. and Celia
Fuller were as follows--Lester S., born February 19, 1853, died December
29, 1862; Hattie D., born September 21, 1860, married December 24, 1879,
to Zachary Thompson, and they have these children (Mabel F., born June
30, 1881; Bertha C., born January 12, 1883; Lester D., born March 12,
1885); Alvah A., born December 4, 1863, married January 28, 1891; Sadie
E. Rice, born April 12, 1868; Vernon E., born October 14, 1867, married
February 14, 1889, Susan Eckler, and resides in Carlton; Gertie A., born
August 24, 1870, married March 23, 1893, James Smith; G. Ray, born
February 13 1872; Myron, born September 28, 1876, died March 7, 1877. 
Alvah A. Fuller was educated in the common schools of Carlton and
attended a select school taught by Miss P.A. Foster at Albion.  He
commenced to work by the month on a farm and after three years went west
as far as Washington State, where he remained two years and was foreman
on a ranch of 800 acres.  In 1889 he returned to Carlton and worked on
his father's farm two years, and in 1891 moved to the village of Gaines,
where he has carried on a mercantile business up to the present time. 
Mr. Fuller is now town clerk of Gaines, having been elected in the
spring of 1891 on the Republican ticket.







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