Tuscola County MI Archives Photo Tombstone.....Slafter, David Grow ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joann Geybels j.geybels@skynet.be September 15, 2009, 10:10 pm Cemetery: Riverside Cemetery Name: David Grow Slafter Date Of Photograph: May 21, 2006 Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/tuscola/photos/tombstones/riverside/slafter82917nph.jpg Image file size: 119.5 Kb David Grow Slafter (January 1, 1817 – 1908) was the sixth of John and Persis (Grow) Slafter’s nine children. David married Ann Calista (Lucas) Slafter (December 6, 1825 – 1898), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Lucas of Pierrepont, St. Lawrence County, New York. David and Ann had no children, but adopted an orphan, the son of James Morgan and Antoinette (Fry) Baldwin. The Baldwins, who had three children, had settled in Tuscola County in the early 1850s. Once the adoption procedure was finalized, the boy’s name was Morgan Baldwin Slafter. David and Ann also raised a girl, Lottie M. Slafter, whom they did not adopt. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/tuscola/photos/tombstones/riverside/slafter82917nph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb