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SOURCE: 
Centennial Edition of the Lapeer County Press and Lapeer County Clarion
dated Wednesday, August 19, 1931
Commemorating 100 Years of History and Progress
Lapeer  1831 - 1931

Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott
for the U.S. Data Repository  http://www.us-data.org/
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                            ROODS AMONG FIRST TO COME
                            
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                          Another of the earliest pioneers
                        was Aaron Rood, who accompanied
                        by his eldest son, J. R., came to
                        Lapeer in 1834 from Barre, Vermont,
                        and acquired considerable land in
                        this locality.  Two years later he
                        and his son returned to Vermont to
                        bring the remainder of the family
                        here to make their home.  The family
                        consisted of Mr. and Mrs. Rood and
                        nine children, two other children
                        having died in infancy.  The nine
                        who grew to manhood and womanhood
                        in this vicinity were J.R., Orvis,
                        George W., Horace D., Pierce N.,
                        Henry C., Sarah, Hannah and Ann.
                          Orvis was the father of Alpheus
                        who was born May 10, 1839 and said
                        to have been the second white child
                        born in Lapeer Township.  Alpheus
                        became the father of John Rood,
                        prominent Ann Arbor and Detroit
                        attorney and law authority, of
                        Frank Rood, of Rev. Dwight Rood, of
                        Iowa, and of Miss Mable Rood of
                        Lapeer.  Another son of Orvis was
                        George H. who moved to Kansas in 
                        1881.
                          George W., was the father of Mrs.
                        Vernelia Rood Taylor, Pine street
                        and of G.W. Rood, now deceased.
                          Horace D., was the father of Mary
                        Rood Johnson, one of Lapeer's best
                        known women; of Fannie, who died
                        in 1884, and Sarah who died in 1889,
                        and Charles H. Rood, secretary of
                        the State Mutual Cyclone Insurance
                        Company.
                          Pierce N. was the father of Mary
                        Husted, Flora Gleason and Hattie
                        Rood.
                          Henry C. Rood was the father of
                        Miss Elizabeth Rood who resides on
                        Biddle street in this city.  Also of
                        Fred A. of Richmond Heights, Wash.,
                        of Delia, Arthur R. who married Ina
                        Abbott, and Richard M.  Delia, Arthur
                        and Richard are deceased.
                          Sarah Rood became the wife of
                        E.J. White and the mother of his two
                        youngest children, Elizabeth and Jay
                        White.  The latter became United State
                        consul to Italy.
                          Hannah was married to Rev. E.P. Stone,
                        a retired minister who had come here
                        from Vermont. They resided on Calhoun
                        street, next to the Presbyterian church.
                          Ann was married to Cephas Woodbury
                        and was the mother of John Woodbury.