Tuscola County MI Archives Photo Tombstone.....Slafter, John ************************************************ 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 19, 2009, 12:00 pm Cemetery: Tuscola Township Cemetery Name: John Slafter Date Of Photograph: November 28, 2008 Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/tuscola/photos/tombstones/tuscolatownship/slafter83277nph.jpg Image file size: 129.7 Kb This is a close-up of the inscription on the left side of the John Slafter Family Monument: JOHN SLAFTER BORN AT MANSFIELD, CONN. OCT. 31. A.D. 1776 DIED AT TUSCOLA MICH. NOV. 21 A.D. 1856 John Slafter (October 31, 1776 – November 21, 1856) was the son of John Slafter and his first wife Elizabeth (Hovey) Slafter. John married Persis Grow (June 17, 1783 – November 29, 1877), daughter of Rev. Timothy and Phalle (Richardson) Grow. John and Persis had nine children: Phalle R., who married Naham N. Wilson; William, who first married Roisa H. Johnson and later married Mary P. (Sutherland) Waters; Persis G., who first married Austin Hutchinson and later married John Marsh; Elizabeth H., who died at the age of two years; John F., who never married; David G., who married Ann Calista Lucas; Almina L., who married Paschal Richardson; A. Judson, who married the widow Fannie (Rogers) Tice; and Augusta M. Slafter, who married Oliver P. Tobey. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/tuscola/photos/tombstones/tuscolatownship/slafter83277nph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb