Branch County MI Archives Biographies.....Fuller, Adelbert M. 
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Author: 1888 Portrait & Bio Album

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE ARTICLE ON ADELBERT M. FULLER
...deceased, was formerly an able and prosperous farmer, actively identified
with the agricultural interests of Branch, his native county, as they were
represented in the township of Ovid, where he had his home.  He had further
claim .... was a gallant soldier in the late Civil War.  He was born in
Coldwater, Feb. 28, 1839, and was a son of Milton Fuller, a native of Vermont,
and a pioneer of Branch County. .... The maiden name of his wife, mother of our
subject, was Latetia Dunekine.  She was born in the State of New York, and died
on the homestead in Ovid, in Dec. 1877.  There were three children born to that
union, but our subject was the only one surviving when his parents died.
Adelbert Fuller was17 years old when his father's death occurred, and he then
went to live with an uncle in Homer for one year.  After that he went to the
academy at Kalamazoo to complete his education.  He became a member of the 20th
Iowa Infantry, ...... After the was our subject returned to the homestead in
Ovid Township and stayed there until his death, July 10, 1878.
Mr. & Mrs. Fuller were united in marriage, Dec. 2, 1866, and of their union one
daughter was born, whom they named Francis Grace.  Mrs. Fuller was formerly Miss
Augusta Strobee.  She is a native of this State, born in the town of Clinton,
Lenawee County, Apr. 1, 1842.  Her father was born in Schoharie County, N.Y.,
Jan. 12, 1811, and his father, Frederic Stobee, was a native of the same county,
where he carried on farming until his removal to Canada, where he spent his last
years.
Mrs. Fuller's father was one year old when his parents moved to the British
Dominion, where they settled in the Province of Quebec, in the town of Chatham.
 He grew to manhood and married a daughter of Hezekiah Jackson, who was born in
Vermont.  He then came from Canada to Detroit .... went to Lenawee County in
1834, and settled in Clinton until 1850.  In that year he came to Ovid Township
and bought a tract of timber land on section 15 .... he died July 6, 1888.  He
was bereaved of his amiable and beloved companion July 26, 1860. 


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