Cass County MI Archives Photo Tombstone.....Hitchcock, Sterling 
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Marshall H. Sanders, Jr. sanmarjr@sbcglobal.net October 3, 2007, 5:09 pm

Cemetery:           Chain Lake (Lake View), Calvin Twp., Cass Co.
Name:               Sterling Hitchcock

Date Of Photograph: October 21, 2006
Photo can be seen at:
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Sterling Hitchcock

CO B

27TH   USCT

This is a small white United State Colored Troops military marker.  The 
lettering is obscured by lichen.  The marker is exactly in line with the State 
of Michigan Historical Marker when looking north from down the hill near the 
woods.

Sterling Hitchcock, Sr. and Charlotte Newsom b. 1801 NC were the parents of 
Reuben Hitchcock/Hathcock b. 1819 and Sterling Hitchcock b. 1823. 

Note: Sterling Hitchcock, Sr. b. 1792 or 1801 in Brunswick Co, VA and d. 
1860.  It is very possible the line of Sterling Hitchcock/Hathcock,Sr. goes 
back to Joseph Hathcock, 1700, Brunswick Co, VA.  

Sterling Hitchcock, the son, was born in North Carolina 1823 and died in 1882 
or 1883. 

The surname spelling of Sterling Hitchcock had several versions. Surname 
documentation indicates Heathcutt, Hathcock, Hatchcock, Hathcox and Haithcock. 

Census Documentation:
1850-Ruscreek Logan, OH Heathcutt, Sterling 27, NC
1860-Taylor, Union, OH Hathcock, Sterling, 37, NC
1870-Calvin, Cass, MI, Hatchcock, Sterling, 46, OH
1880-Calvin, Cass, MI, Hathcox, Sterling, 55 engineer in sawmill, NC
Civil War Pension Application - Surling Haithcock

Sterling Hitchcock enlisted for the war on 15 Jan 1864 at the age of 40 and 
mustered out on 21 Sep 1865.

Sterling Hitchcock/Hathcock was the third husband of Frances Allen b. 1 May 
1831.  Sterling and Frances were married 10 Jan 1869.  Frances (Fanny) Allen 
was the daughter of Joseph Allen and Rebecca nee Tabourn Allen. 

Note:  Frances Allen was previously married to #1: Carson Day 1848, #2: John 
Anderson 11 Mar 1849.  All children of Frances were Anderson.  One of those 
children was Helena Anderson, the paternal great grandmother of Maurice W. and 
Marshall H. Sanders, Jr.

Sterling Hitchcock died in 1882 or 1883.  

Chain Lake Cemetery 

Additional Comments:
Sanders Transcription Team
Research Contributors:  Sandra Walker Hollingsworth, Maurice W. Sanders and 
Debra Smith McIntosh
Transcribed and photograph by:  Sharon A. Simeon and Marshall H. Sanders, Jr.

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/cass/photos/tombstones/chainlakelakevie/hitchcoc121523gph.txt

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