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History of Allegan and Barry Counties, Michigan
pub. D. W. Ensign & Co., Philadelphia - 1880


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         WELLS BYINGTON and wife, a newly-married couple from
       New York, reached Prairieville in the spring of 1837.
       They occupied the house built by YOUNGS GILKEY. As an
       illustration of the small troubles which, as well as
       the great ones, so frequently annoyed the pioneer, we
       may mention that one morning, finding he had no fire
       and having no means of lighting one, MR. BYINGTON was
       obliged to take a shovel and go two miles and a half
       to the house of C. W. SPAULDING for a few coals of
       fire. MR. BYINGTON subsequently moved to Barry town-
       ship, where he still lives.
       
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