Mecosta County MI Archives Biographies.....Rose, James E. December 16, 1854 - 
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Author: Chapman Brothers

JAMES E. ROSE, farmer, sec. 17, Big Rapids Tp., was born in Defiance Co., 
Ohio, Dec. 16, 1854.  Freeman 

Rose, his father was born in Pierrepont, St. Lawrence Co., N.Y., May 25, 1820, 
and died Jan. 11, 1883.  He 

was of Irish and English lineage, and moved to Defiance, Ohio, and removed 
thence to Michigan, settling in 

Big Raids, Tp., Dec. 20, 1856.  His was the fourth family in the township, and 
their experiences exhibit 

all the characteristics of pioneer life.  Freeman Rose married Sally M. Lloyd, 
March 9, 1854.  She was born 

in Russell, N.Y., Feb. 9, 1823, and became the mother of four children, two of 
whom only are living - Mr. 

Rose of this sketch, and Harriet Lucy (Rose) Fifield, born Sept. 15, 1857.

Mr. Rose holds the homestead on which his father located in the earliest days 
of the history of Mecosta 

County.  His mother is the object of his special charge, and relates 
graphically the incidents of her 

pioneer life in the township.  Much of the time she lived alone with only her 
baby son for companion, her 

husband being under the necessity of leaving home to find work to support his 
family.  A call at her door 

at midnight was a frequent experience, and many times she left her bed to 
admit strangers for shelter and 

food.  Her husband would have abandoned the place but for her inflexible 
determintion to establish a home 

here, and when people who were amazed at her resolution and persistent 
endurance remarked, "I should think 

you would die her!'  she replied, "I did not come to die - I came to live!' 
and she has carried out her 

determination worthily.  Let us hope she may live to celebrate her centennial 
birthday in the county of 

whose wonderfully rapids progress she has been an eye-witness.

Among those we have selected to represent the pioneers of Mecosta County, in 
the portrait department of 

this Album, there are certainly none more worthy than Mr. and Mrs. Rose, and 
it is with great pleasure that 

we present portraits of each of them in connection with this sketch.

Additional Comments:
1883 Portrait & Bio Album of Mecosta Co.

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