Kalamazoo County MI Archives Photo Tombstone.....Barnes, Tillotson 
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Cemetery:           Yorkville Cemetery, Ross Township
Name:               Tillotson Barnes

Date Of Photograph: 2008
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In memory of Tillotson Barnes who died Feb 3 1836 Aged 51 years.
One of the first settlers of Yorkville.  
"Tillotson and Clarissa (Byington) Barnes were born and reared in Connecticut. 
The father was a farmer and also a millwright, and he wrought at these 
vocations a number of years. In 1832 the family moved to this county, making 
the trip from Rome. N. Y., by canal to Buffalo, and from there across Lake 
Erie by steamboat to Detroit. From this city, which was then one of the 
outposts of civilization, they traveled with an ox team to Gull Prairie and 
settled on one hundred acres of wild and unbroken land in Ross township, in 
the Oak Openings. The father did not begin farming at once, but, yielding to 
the necessities of the neighborhood, he erected a grist and saw mill at 
Yorkville, bringing the stone from Detroit by means of ox teams. This mill he 
operated until his death, in February, I836. The mother died in New York when 
her son was but four years old, and afterward the father married a second 
wife, Miss Ursula Wilson, who died at Yorkville in 1846. (of the first 
marriage three sons and two daughters were born)" p. 205 Compendium of History 
and biography of Kalamazoo County, Mich. 1906

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