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Subject: WARNER Genesee County "Overseer of the Poor" WARNER (KMO)
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 20:15:59 EST

Hello All,
I am asking for any help anyone can give me regarding the dead-end I have
hit regarding my WARNER roots in Genesee County, Michigan. The family I am
seeking is that of WASHINGTON WARNER and his wife Mary (unknown maiden name).
In the 1860 census, three of their children are shown: GEORGE (1847), LYDIA
1850) and EMORY BRADFORD WARNER ( my great-grandfather) (1852). All three
were born in Flushing Township (Genesee County, MI). By 1880, Emory Warner
has married CAROLINE PERKINS, whose family hailed from Jefferson County, New
York and settled in Hemlock (Saginaw County), MI.
Washington WARNER's occupation is listed as a shoemaker, a trade carried
on by his sons. The 1860 census records also show that Washington and Mary
were born in New York, but the 1880 census shows them being born in
Pennsylvania.
A book titled "The History of Genesee County" (MI) written around 1890,
shows Washington Warner listed under "Overseers of the Poor 1848. There are
Warner references in Eaton and Shiawassee Counties, MI.
Family lore from my 95 year old cousin says The Warner family in
Pennsylvania might have been from the Philadelphia or Pittsburgh areas, with
a reference to "Pennsylvania Dutch," which surprised me because I have been
told my Warner's emigrated from either England or Ireland. Yes, I'm confused
too!
Thank you for taking the time to read all of this. Any information will be
100% more than I have right now. Can I sound any more pitifully desperate?
Sincerely,
Kevin O'Brien
Laguna Hills, California
Researching: Dorchester
Perkins
Shannon
Van Schaick
Warner
Ivall
Lowe
Gauley

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