Family History - Sarah R. ‘Sadie’ Turner
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The Illustrated History and Biographical Record of Lenawee County, Michigan, by John I. Knapp and R. I. Bonner, provides an interesting biography of Charles F. Gustin, which is repeated here:1
Charles F. Gustin was born in Columbus, Chenango County, N.Y., April 11, 1857, and came to Michigan in May 1884. His father, Levi Gustin, was born in Sherburne, Chenango County, N.Y., April 21, 1821. He always lived in Chenango County, where he learned the stone mason’s trade and owned a small farm. Of his ancestry there is very little known, but evidently the family came to New York from Connecticut. He died at Columbus, July 18, 1899. September 16, 1842, Levi Gustin married Miss Mary A. Fenton, daughter of Stephen and Mercy (Myers) Fenton, of Chenango County, N.Y., and they had nine children, as follows; Lucy A., born January 13, 1844; Mercy L., born March 16, 1845; Helen M., born September 28, 1846; Maria, born December 28, 1847; Alphonzo D., born February 13, 1849, died April 10, 1849; Mary L., born May 31, 1850; William W., born August 18, 1851. Charles F. was a twin, his sister dying in infancy. Mrs. Mary A. (Fenton) Gustin was born in Chambridge, Middlesex County, mass., December 16, 1817, and resides with her son in Madison, this county. Her parents were natives of Middlesex County, Mass., but emigrated to Brookfield, Madison County, N.Y. Her father, Stephen Fenton, was born June 29, 1791, and died in Otsego County, N.Y., May 11, 1870. Mercy (Myers) Fenton was born in 1787, and died in Madison County, N.Y., July 13, 1826. Mr. Fenton was three times married, the second being Lucinda Shumway, whose ancestors were Huguenots, the third, Philena Cutter, and was the father of nine children. Charles F. Gustin, subject of this sketch, lived in Chenango and Otsego Counties all his life till he came to Michigan. He was brought up a farmer, but learned to make cheese, which business he followed for many years, during the season. In the winter he sold nursery stock and thus cultivated a taste for horticulture. He was educated in the country schools and Morris Academy, in Otsego County. Soon after coming to Michigan he engaged in the nursery business, and purchased land on Section 10, in Madison. Beginning in a small way, he has, by perseverance and close attention to his own affairs, succeeded remarkably well, and now owns 140 acres of land, and one of the most desirable farm homes in Madison township, on Section 9, it being known in the 50’s as the old Prairie Cottage race course farm, the finest one mile track in Michigan at that time. He now grows and markets from 50,000 to 75,000 trees annually, and will increase the business now that he has more land suitable for cultivation. October 3, 1882, Charles F. Gustin married Miss Sarah R. Turner, daughter of James P. and Harmony (Daly) Turner, of Blissfield, this county, and they have had two children, as follows: Newel Wolcott, born December 12, `885, died November 14, 1886; Beulah Elida, born January 18, 1887, Mrs. Sarah R. (Turner) Gustin was born in Portage, Wood County, Ohio, August 2, 1862. Her father, James P. Turner, was born in Ridgeway, Orleans County, N.Y., and died in Blissfield, Mich., in 1899. Her mother, Harmony (Daly) Turner, was born at Lockport, N.Y., Nov. 17, 1823, and died in Blissfield, this county, May 7, 1889. They settled in Blissfield in 1864. James P. Turner’s ancestors came from Massachusetts, his mother being Miss Sarah Adams, a cousin of John Quincy Adams.
Children of Sarah R. ‘Sadie’ Turner and Charles Fremont Gustin:
| 2 | i. | Newel Wolcott Gustin, born 12 December 1885;1 died 14 November 1886.1 | |
| 3 | ii. | Beulah Elida Gustin, born 18 January 1887.1 |
- Illustrated History and Biographical Record of Lenawee County, Michigan, by John I. Knapp and R. I. Bonner. Times Printing Company, Adrian, Michigan, 1903. Available at Google Books. Biographical sketch of Charles F. Gustin.
- U.S. Federal Census, 1860, New York, Chenango County, Columbus, Page No. 237, family of Levi Gustin (40, New York, farmer); Mary Ann Gustin (44, Conn); Lucinda Gustin (10, New York); William Gustin (8, New York); Charles Gustin (3, New York).
- U.S. Federal Census, 1870, New York, Chenango County, Columbus, Page No. 29, family of Levi Gustin (49, New York, stone mason); Mary Gustin (53, New York); Charley Gustin (13, New York).
- U.S. Federal Census, 1880, New York, Chenango County, New Berlin, Enumeration District 100, Page No. 9A, family of Charles Gustin (22, New York, farmer); mother Mary Ann Gustin (63, RI).
- Gazlay History, compiled by Margaret Howe in 1955-1956 (copy available at Gazlay Family History - Sources). Margaret Howe indicated that the document is “based on material my mother Inez L. Gazlay collected, but never lived to edit. Her material has just been copied and explains the more extensive material on generation V and VI. Other information has been added which I found from numerous sources.” Unpublished, 29 pages. Several differences in dates have been found between this document and others, especially A Genealogy of the Leavenworth Family; the latter is considered the more accurate source.