Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....BALDWIN, Estella E. 2002
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THE SEBEWA RECOLLECTOR Bulletin of the Sebewa Center Association, Volume 37 April-June 2002 Number 5-6; submitted with permission from editor, Grayden D. Slowins
Estella E. Baldwin was the daughter of Phoebe Maria (Friend) & Rush Porter 
Baldwin, son of Matilda (Shaw) & Nathaniel Baldwin.  Rush Baldwin and his 
brothers settled on Musgrove Highway in Sebewa Township, right after serving in 
various Ohio Infantry & Cavalry units in the Civil War.  Rush homesteaded the 
east 80 acres of the Fred & Theo Bulling farm, now owned by Charles & Edward 
Leik.  Their children were born and raised on that Sebewa farm.  By 1899 they 
were living in their house on the left side at the top of James Street hill in 
Portland, which was originally built as the old red east side central school.  
After Phoebe Maria died in 1903, Rush married Emma Brown in 1910 and owned the 
farm which is the west 120 acres of what is now the Sunset Ridge Mobile Home 
Park in Portland Township on Grand River Avenue west of Portland City.
Phoebe Marie Friend was the daughter of Polly Ann (Meachum) & John Friend, son 
of Betty (Comb) & John Friend, who emigrated from England in 1833 with their 
seven children, landing at Sandy Hook, New Jersey.  The family settled near 
Beria, Ohio.  After their marriage in 1843 and the birth of their four 
children, John & Polly Ann moved to Sebewa Township in 1854 and settled on the 
farm now owned by Jim & Sid Stank, and long known as the Knapp farm.  Polly Ann 
died in 1857 and John married Sarah J. Cramer and had five more children.  His 
youngest brother, James Friend settled between Carlton Center & Woodland and 
has many descendants in that area, as does John in Ionia County.

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