Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2012, All Rights Reserved U.S. Data Repository Please read U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the US Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ ========================================================================= U.S. Data Repository NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization. Non-commercial organizations desiring to use this material must obtain the consent of the transcriber prior to use. Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so. ========================================================================= Formatted by U.S. Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== SOURCE: History of Genesee County, Michigan pub. Everts and Abbott - 1879 Page f188 ANSON GILBERT ------------- ANSON GILBERT was born in Galway, Saratoga, N.Y., June 27, 1806. His father was a farmer, but he learned the trade of carpenter and joiner. In 1832 he came to Detroit, where he worked at his trade. In 1835 he was married to Miss JUDITH ANN GARLAND, formerly of New Hampshire. At this time, 1836, there was a strong tide of emigration to Michigan to secure land for future homes. Having saved a few hundred dollars, he came out to the then remote wilderness of Genesee County, and entered one hundred and sixty acres of land in the north- westerly portion of Flint, taking his title from the government. Returned to Detroit, and the following winter moved to Saginaw, where he worked at his trade until May, 1838, when he employed six Indians, with three or four canoes, to take his family and household effects up the river to the land he had previously purchased. The trip was wild and ro- mantic, and occupied three or four days. Follow- ing the crooked river through a dense wilderness, occasionally the stream would be obstructed by drift- wood; then the canoes were unloaded, taken from the water, and again launced above the obstruction. There were but two or three settlers in the whole dis- tance; they camped out at night. In due time they arrived at the spot which was to be their future home, built a shanty for the first year, and cleared a few acres of land. The next year he built a good frame house, which is now in good order and occupied by the family. Although it is heavily timbered, there are now broad and fertile fields; other lands have been added to the original purchase until a large and valu- able farm has been made, which furnishes all the com- forts of life. He died Sept. 4, 1876, leaving a wife and three children, -- two sons and one daughter. The oldest son lives in the city of Flint; the daughter is married, and lives adjoining the old home' the youngest son lives on the old home, where the mother resides, in her seventy-third year, in good health and spirits, enjoying a well-earned competency, and taking great pleasure in relating incidents of "Auld Lang Syne." ===========================================================================