Gaius C. Fuller, 1812–1883 (aged 70 years)

Name
Gaius C. Fuller
Given names
Gaius C.
Surname
Fuller
Birth September 28, 1812
Birth of a sisterEmeline Fuller
January 27, 1817 (aged 4 years)
MarriageHarriet Cook — View this family
April 16, 1843 (aged 30 years)
Birth of a sonArathusa F. Fuller
August 19, 1844 (aged 31 years)
Birth of a sonEdgar Cook Fuller
August 13, 1847 (aged 34 years)
Birth of a sonDarius Fuller
1850 (aged 37 years)
Birth of a sonMoses Fuller
1852 (aged 39 years)
Birth of a daughterLucy Fuller
January 8, 1855 (aged 42 years)
Marriage of a childMoses Fuller — Mrs. Ada F. Fuller — View this family
about 1880 (aged 67 years)
Death September 22, 1883 (aged 70 years)
Burial
Unique identifier
269FB1DADB574C56B28715FC0F61BFAC49A4

Last change April 29, 2020

Family with parents
father
mother
Marriage
Marriage: —
himself
1812–1883
Birth: September 28, 1812 — Massachusetts, USA
Death: September 22, 1883 — Conway, Livingston, Michigan, USA
4 years
younger sister
1817–
Birth: January 27, 1817 — Ashfield, Franklin, Massachusetts, USA
Death:
-9 years
elder brother
1808–
Birth: September 2, 1808 — Ashfield, Franklin, Massachusetts, USA
Death:
Family with Harriet Cook
himself
1812–1883
Birth: September 28, 1812 — Massachusetts, USA
Death: September 22, 1883 — Conway, Livingston, Michigan, USA
wife
1823–1906
Birth: May 11, 1823 36 37 — Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
Death: November 3, 1906 — Conway, Livingston, Michigan, USA
Marriage
Marriage: April 16, 1843 — Richland, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
16 months
son
1844–1914
Birth: August 19, 1844 31 21 — Livingston, Michigan, USA
Death: 1914
3 years
son
1847–1904
Birth: August 13, 1847 34 24 — Livingston, Michigan, USA
Death: 1904
3 years
son
1850–1860
Birth: 1850 37 26 — Livingston, Michigan, USA
Death: before 1860 — Livingston, Michigan, USA
3 years
son
1852–1922
Birth: 1852 39 28 — Livingston, Michigan, USA
Death: 1922 — Conway, Livingston, Michigan, USA
3 years
daughter
1855–1901
Birth: January 8, 1855 42 31 — Livingston, Michigan, USA
Death: March 24, 1901
Note

BIRTH: Born 28 September 1812 in Massachusetts. Birth date recorded with his death information (FHL film 926731 pp. 49-62, Fuller Cemetery at Conway, Livingston Michigan.) He gave his birthplace Massachusetts on the 1850-80 Census, b. about 1812.

LIVINGSTON CO. MICHIGAN On 1 April 1837 Gaius Fuller purchased with cash 40 acres in Livingston Co., Michigan. It is Section 12, twp 2-N, Range 6-E, Michigan Toledo Strip. On 5 May the same year he purchased 826.44 acres at Livingston, Ingram and Shiawassee, sections 1, 2, and 36. On 18 Aug. 1837 he bought another 40 acres at Washentaw. (Ancestry.com. U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2008. Original data: United States. Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records. Automated Records Project; Federal Land Patents, State Volumes. http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/. Springfield, Virginia: Bureau of Land Management, Eastern States, 2007.)

1850 CENSUS Gaius Fuller, Conway, Livingston, Michigan. He is 38 years old, a farmer born in Mass. His wife Harriet is 27, born Conn. Children are Irene age 6 (same age as Arthusa), Edgar age 3, and Darius age 1/2.

1860 CENSUS Gaius C. Fuller, Conway, Livingston, Michigan. He is 48 years old, a farmer born in Mass. His wife is Harriet, 37 years old, born in Connecticut. Their children, all born in Michigan are: Arthusa, a female, age 15, Edgar age 12, Moses age 10 and Lucy age 5. (Ancestry.com)

1870 CENSUS G. C. Fuller living at Conway, Livingston, Michigan, He is 58 years old, born in Massachusetts. His wife Harriet is 47, born in Connecticut. Also in the home are Edgar Fuller, age 22, born in Michigan, Moses Fuller, age 18, born in Michigan and at school and Lucy Fuller, age 16, born in Michigan and at school. (Census Place: Conway, Livingston, Michigan; Roll: M593_687; Page: 42; Image: 85, Ancestry.com)

1880 CENSUS Conway, Livingston, Michigan. "Gains" C. Fuller, age 67, born about 1813 in Massachusetts. His wife Harriet Fuller is 56, born about 1823 in Connecticut. Also in the household: Emeline Fuller, age 63, sister of Gaius. Also in town: Edgar L. Fuller born about 1848 in Michigan, son of Gaius and Harriet. His wife Ellen Fuller

LAND RECORDS: Kal. Co. Deeds 38:213, (FHL 983,387, item 2) (Noted in index to be 65 ½ acres total in Richland, Kal. Mich.) 07 day of May, 1872 Between Harriet E. Fuller and Gaius C. Fuller her husband, of the town of Conway, Livingston County of the state of Michigan of the first part and Lucy Spencer (Harriet's niece) of the town of Richland, Kalamazoo County and state of Michigan of the second part. (Family History Library film 983,387, item 2, p. 213, dated 8 May1872.)

DEATH Death was at Conway 22 September 1883. (FHL film 926731 pp. 49-62, Fuller Cemetery at Conway, Livingston Michigan.) Gaius was buried near his son Moses and sister Emeline.

Note

Marriages, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, Liber 1, 1831-1852 by Ruth Robbins, Monteith, published 1959 by D.A.R. 1:223: "Harriet Cook, 20 of Richland mar. Gaius C. Fuller, 30 of Conway, Livingston County, April 16, 1843 at Phineas Cook's by Leonard Slater, M.G." Witnesses Eli Mosher, Theodore Spaulding, Prairieville, Barry, Michigan. (FHL film 857,306, item 4.)

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