Seventy Years Ago To-day

Dear Editor : - As there has been gome doubt in the past as t who was ' the first white child born in Ann ' bor town, I wiil give yon UiO ' ing facts taken from tilO íamily record ol tue late George Rash, who eettled on Sectlon 25 in September, 1825 : Mi&ry Rash was boinn. in Ann Arbor ooi January 29th, 1825. And she died Mareh. 16th, 1831, aged six years. Tike next child bom was E .W. Rumsey Smitih, ,bonn Novembea1 24th, 1825. The third child born was J. S. Kowl.ind, who was born June 13th, 1826. Jaimes G. Eash (broth&r of Mary) was boam Nov. 19, 1827. He has res'uled om the same premises Tip to the present time, 67 yeai-.s. Xow a word in rega.nl to the remaine ïuund on State st., recently. The convspoiideiit of a Detroit paper claims it is ome of Üie Mundys who livcd on the -pi-ciiiises at a very early date. I thiink liO is mistaken, as Jottun C. Mundy and Edward, carne from llluiois in 1831, and lived on N. Fifth. street a nuniber oí years. .loliu C. Mundy maiTied Minerva Rumsey in 1835, and lived over bis store on Maim st. about threO years before ho moved to State Kt. The body may be that of G. W. Koycsi who was killed at the raising of Mr. Nowland's liouise in 1826, as nis brother James Isoyes lived on the wremises at that t i mr Ann Arbor, Jan. 29, 1895.