Tuscola County MI Archives Photo Tombstone.....Slafter, Morgan Baldwin 
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Cemetery:           Riverside Cemetery
Name:               Morgan Baldwin Slafter

Date Of Photograph: September 6, 2009
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Morgan Baldwin Slafter (May 26, 1855 – January 1916) was the adopted son of 
David Grow Slafter and Ann Calista (Lucas) Slafter.  Morgan married Carrie M. 
(Smith) Slafter (June 16, 1858 – 1936), daughter of Jacob and Lovina Smith of 
Canton, St. Lawrence County, New York.  Morgan and Carrie had no children.

Morgan was orphaned when just a young child.  His parents were James Morgan 
and Antoinette (Fry) Baldwin, who had settled in Tuscola County in the early 
1850s.  Morgan’s father James purchased land in various Tuscola County 
townships during the period 1851 to 1854, and the title to some of the land he 
purchased in Vassar was in conjunction with David G. Slafter and Joshua D. 
Smith.

Morgan had an older brother, Albert V. Baldwin, and an older sister, Jennie 
Baldwin.  All three children were named as heirs in the 1860 will of their 
paternal grandmother, Sarah (Burt) Baldwin, who lived in Chemung, Chemung 
County, New York.  Sarah passed away in May 1864.

Morgan’s grave marker is on the David Grow Slafter family lot in Block M, Sec 
14 where his adoptive parents David G. and Ann (Lucas) Slafter and his wife 
Carrie M. (Smith) Slafter are buried.  There is a large Slafter family 
monument on the lot.

Note:  In Morgan’s obituary in the Saginaw Courier Herald on January 9, 1916, 
his surviving sister is referred to as Miss Nettie Baldwin of Binghamton, New 
York.


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