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				CHAUNCEY & MARY E. (TISSUE)   CASE

 	George Case was born in Hartford, Conn., June 13, 1808. His parents were also Connecticut
people, from whence they moved when George was two years old to Camden, N. Y.    When he was 
sixteen he ran away from home, and, going to Buffalo, took passage on the steamer "Superior" for 
Michigan.  While on the passage he met Miss Emeline Doty, and "love at first sight" was the 
result.  Soon after landing in Detroit he followed Miss Doty's family to Oakland County, where 
he bought of the government eighty acres of land in Farmington, which he partly cleared.  On the 
8th day of October, 1827, he married Miss Emeline Doty.  She was born,  Nov. 14, 1812, and was 
daughter of Elisha and Rachel (Allen) Doty.  In 1833 they sold their farm, and the next spring 
moved to Easton township, in Ionia County, and bought one hundred and three acres of government 
land.  A log house was built, into which they moved, and another new home was begun.  Mr. Case 
had been on the farm but two years when, in going to Grand rapids, he was thrown from his horse 
while attempting to ford Thornapple River and drowned.  Mr. Case was thus stricken down in the 
prime of life, leaving a wife and three children, of whom Chauncey was the oldest.  He was born 
in Farmington, Oakland Co., Mich., March 12, 1833.
	Mrs. Case was married in 1838 to John L. Smith, and the family was kept together.  In 
1853 they traded the farm in Oakland County for four hundred acres of land in Crystal township,
Montcalm Co., and in September of that year the whole family moved into the Crystal land.  There 
were no neighbors nearer than six miles, and this was the first family in the township.  The land
was divided among the family.  To Chauncey fell the east half of northeast quarter of section 29.
This land he at once commenced to clear, and after a couple years he built a log house and frame
barn, and then it began to look like a farm.  But it would never be a home without a mistress,
and on the 1st of January, 1857, he led to the altar Miss Mary E. Tissue, daughter of James and 
Maria (Neff) Tissue.  She was born in Alton Co., Ohio, July 15, 1837.  Her father was born in 
Wayne Co., Pa., Aug. 10, 1810, his wife in Seneca Co., Ohio, April 21, 1815.  Two weeks after 
their marriage they moved into the log house, which has long since been replaced by one of the 
best in Crystal.  Mr. Case had only eighty acres bought with the old home.  But, though this was 
a small start, it was made bright by the hopes of the future, which have been more than realized.
Then their effects consisted of one chair, one bed, a few other household goods, a yoke of 
steers, and two cows.  They are now surrounded by all the comforts of life, and have a farm of 
one hundred and eighty acres, one hundred and fifty of it under improvement, all the result of 
good  management and industry.   When Mr. Case's parents moved into Ionia County their only
neighbors were Indians, and Chauncey's playmates were Indian children, with whom he held converse
 until he could only talk Indian, and his parents at one time were going to send him back to 
Oakland County to learn his native language, where he could hear nothing else used.
	In politics Mr. Case is a Democrat, and has been supervisor, treasurer, and highway 
commissioner, and many times a delegate of his party to county conventions.   To Mr. and Mrs. 
Case there have been born the following children: Emma M., Dec. 15,1857; Seymour J., April 27, 
1860; Manie N., Feb. 29, 1863; Stella May, June 19, 1869; and Minnie B., March 23, 1873.



This biography is taken from "HISTORY OF IONIA AND MONTCALM COUNTIES, MICHIGAN" 
by John S. Schenck. Philadelphia:  D. W. Ensign & Co., 1881.  Page 435.  Crystal.