Kent County MI Archives Photo Tombstone.....Cumings, Nelson & Adelaide Stevenson 
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Cemetery:           SPARTA Greenwood Cemetery, Kent County
Name:               Nelson & Adelaide Stevenson Cumings

Date Of Photograph: April 12, 2006
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Nelson Cumings died 27 September 1880, aged 50 years, 8 months, & 12 days. He 
was born 15 January 1830 in Genesee, New York.
Adelaide (Addie) Stevenson 1836-1931. She was born 04 July 1836 in Brantford, 
Ontario, Canada, and died in Melborne Beach, Florida. A half-brother, John 
Stevenson, was the first speaker of the Ontario legislature after 
confederation. Her brother Edward A Stevenson was territorial governor of 
Idaho at the same time (1890) as her brother Charles C Stevenson was governor 
of Nevada. Her sister Mary married Norman Cumings, and her brothers Hiram & 
William farmed in Alpine township, Kent County.
In 1922, her son Willard L Cumings published the story of the Cumings and 
Stevenson families in "Two Michigan Pioneers."

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