This is
where my Grandmother, Verna Hazel (Fish) Hitchcock grew up - the Fish
Farm. See below from her
50th Wedding Anniversary notice:
Tuscola County
Advertiser (
Caro
,
MI),
Wednesday, May 30, 1979; page A20.
"Pioneer's
daughter to mark anniversary"
"George Lyle and Verna Hazel (Fish) Hitchcock will celebrate
their 50th wedding anniversary with an open house at the home of their
daughter, Mrs. Furrel F. (Dorothy) Fountaine,
5663 Hillcrest Avenue,
Detroit
on Sunday, June 10, from
1
to
4 p.m. he couple
request no gifts.
Hazel and Lyle were married on
June 15, 1929
in Royal Oak, and have since resided in
Detroit. Their address for the
last 40 years has been 5203 Marseilles Ave.
Besides their
daughter, the Hitchcocks have a son,
Professor James E. of
Dayton
,
Ohio; nine grand children, and one great grandchild.
Hazel is one of four girls born to John W. and Ida (Coleman) Fish.
Her only living sister is Mrs. Florence B. Lamport
of
Dearborn. The John Fish farm was
located north of Caro on the Colwood Road
in Columbis
Township. Hazel
and her sisters attended Remington, a rural school, and
Caro
High School
then
after two years at the State
Normal
College
at Ypsilanti
(Eastern Michigan Univ.), Hazel taught 4th grade in Alpena for three
years and 3rd grade in
Royal Oak
for three years.
Lyle was born to George L. and Emma (Bond) Hitchcock in
Cass
City. He attended schools
there and worked in his father's hardware store. He left
Cass
City
in 1929 to work for T. B. Rayls, a Detroit
hardware company, for three years and then for the Continental Can
Co. Lyle retired in 1969 as
Detroit Sales Office Manager of Continental Can after 37 years with
the company.
Hazel's grandfather, John W., and great-grandfather, John, were the
original settlers on the Fish farm. They each purchased 80 acres of land for one dollar per acre
from the state of Michigan
in 1873. The land
remained in the family over 100 years and was recognized as a
Centennial Farm.
In 1975, the farm was sold to Clifford Smith and sons, who had worked
the land for many years."
