- Name: Abner S. Braford
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 01 Dec 1888
Event Place: Solon, Kent, Michigan
Gender: Male
Age: 57
Marital Status: Married
Occupation: Farmer
Birth Date:
Birth Year (Estimated): 1831
Birthplace: New York
Father's Name: Hosea Braford
Mother's Name: Tartha Braford
Reference ID: p 91 rn 2733
GS Film Number: 2363634
Digital Folder Number: 004208690
Image Number: 01201
"Michigan Deaths, 1867-1897," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N3FQ-K9F : 10 March 2018), Abner S. Braford, 01 Dec 1888; citing p 91 rn 2733, Solon, Kent, Michigan, Department of Vital Records, Lansing; FHL microfilm 2,363,634.
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- Abner S. Braford was of English descent, was born in Cayuga county, N. Y. , March 6, 1831, was educated in the common schools, and at the age of fourteen years came to Michigan with his father, Hosea Braford, and here learned the cooper's trade. He first lived in Genesee county, where in early manhood he made his first purchase of land, and later removed to Livingston county, where he married Miss Jubb, also a native of New York and a daughter of William Jubb, who was born in England, and came to America when a young man.
Mr. and Mrs. Braford came to Kent county early in 1859, and purchased eighty acres of partly improved land in Plainfield on which they lived two years, then moved to Cannon township, where they lived fifteen years, and finally, in 1876, settled in Solon township, where they purchased 122 acres. In politics Abner S. Braford was a strong republican, and died, a member of the Wesleyan Methodist church, 562 THE CITY OF GRAND RAPIDS December 30, 1888. His wife still survives him and resides on the homestead, four miles west of Sand Lake, and is also a devout member of the Wesleyan Methodist church.
Quoted from: Abner's son Frank's Bio in The City of Grand Rapids and Kent County, Mich.: up to date, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens.
A.W. Bowen & Co.
[Logansport, Ind.]: A. W. Bowen, 1900.
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1831 - 1888 (57 years)
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