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| Birth: | 08 January 1834 in Pontiac, Oakland County, Michigan |
| Death: | 13 May 1898 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois Aged 64 |
| Sex: | M |
| Father: | Jared Stocking b. 04 October 1796 in Oswego, Tioga County, New York |
| Mother: | Lucy Bigelow b. 04 February 1804 in Manlius, Onondaga County, New York |
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| Cause of Death: Heart Problems |
| Burial: 14 May 1898 Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois |
| Changed: 08 April 2005 23:18 |
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| Laura Ann Kimball (Wife) b. 03 November 1842 in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw, Michigan
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| Marriage: | 04 August 1857 in Meguzee (Elk Rapids) Michigan 07 April 2005 19:00 |
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 Richard Clark Stocking Sr. b. 19 January 1878 in Whitewater, Grand Traverse County, Michigan
- Katie D. Stocking b. 1860 in Whitewater, Grand Traverse County, Michigan
 Harry Stocking b. October 1861 in Whitewater, Grand Traverse County, Michigan
- Frederick R. Stocking b. 16 June 1872 in Whitewater, Grand Traverse County, Michigan
- Perry J. Stocking b. 1867 in Whitewater, Grand Traverse County, Michigan
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Individual:
Name: Perry Stocking
Age in 1870: 35
Estimated Birth Year: 1834
Birthplace: Michigan
Home in 1870: Whitewater, Grand Traverse, Michigan
Race: White
Gender: Male
Value of real estate: View Image
Post Office: Williamsburg
Roll: M593_672
Page: 464
Image: 108
Year: 1870 Grand Traverse Herald (Traverse City, Michigan) February 9 1882
W. McDougall and Perry Stocking of Antrim county cut 85 cords of wood and
12,000 feet of logs in twenty-two days.
Grand Traverse Herald (Traverse City, Michigan) February 24 1881
Perry Stocking has taken a contract to put up a small building on the
lot recently purchased by Solomon Goldman from William B. Chandler. We
understand the building will be at first used by Roswell Leavitt for his
Elk Rapids office, and that the building in which he now is wil be
occupied by Spaulding and Phillips for a meat market.
Perry Stocking Michigan Traverse City Traverse City Record Eagle 30 January 1953
Up to 1852 there were no cattle in the vicinity at Elk Rapids, except a
yoke of oxen at the lumber camp at Round Lake. In July Mr. McLaughlin went
to the south part of the State, and returning with him a yoke of oxen and a
cow. At Grand Rapids he was joinded by Wm. Slawson and Perry Stocking, each with a cow. From Grand Rapids the party struck north, their route from the Muskegon River to Traverse City being through an unbroken wilderness, with only the section lines for guides. The first day out from Grand Rapids.
Mr. Slawson's cow broke away and was lost. The party were thirteen days in
accomplishing the distance to Elk Rapids. Not a little excitement was
caused in the settlement by the sound of a cow bell worn by one of the
animals, as the party approached, it being the first ever heard there.
(Note the Cow with the Cow Bell was Oliver "Perry" Stockings Cow, If you
should visit the Michigan Historical Library and get books for Elk Rapids
You will find the story regarding him.)
http://www.elkrapids.org/Township/EARLYHISTORY/History-Home.htm
ELK RAPIDS THE SETTLEMENT: In 1851 lots for the Stevens (Village of Elk Rapids) were platted and the asking price was $25 per lot. Abram Wadsworth laid out lots in Elk Rapids and sold them for $25, James McLaughlin buying two lots in trade for a bellows where the town hall is currently located.
Up until 1852 there were no cattle in the vicinity of Elk Rapids, except a yoke of oxen at the lumber camp on Round lake. In July 1852, Mr. McLaughlin went out to the south part of the state and drove in from Allegan a pair of oxen and a cow. Of this trip James McLaughlin says: "At Grand Rapids I was joined by William Slawson and Perry Stocking, each with a cow. From Grand Rapids they struck north and though unbroken wilderness, with only a section line to follow. The first day out from the Rapids, Slawson's cow broke away and they lost her being the only serious mishap they had, and after traveling thirteen days they arrived at Elk Rapids. The town was thrown into quite an excitement at the sound of a cow bell, these being the first that had ever been heard in this region. Soon after this Alexander McVicar came up from Canada, bringing with him his father's family and also two cows, which made in all four cows and two yoke of oxen on this side of the bay".
On 8-4-1857 at Megeezee, Oliver P. Stocking of Megeezee, aged 23 Married Laura A. Kimball,aged 16 by John S. Barkder, Jp with Jerome Stocking of Megeezee and Emeline Hughes of Chicago as witnesses. Gazetter of the State of Michigan
Billiard hall at Elk Rapids in 1875
Our township tax collector, John Denahy, publicly sold the saloon fixtures of Perry Stocking last Wednesday for refusing to pay his assessment. We believe, they all, or part of the, were purchased by Adelbert Newton, who afterward sold them to James Farley.
We have learned that the saloon property sold for taxes did not belong to Perry Stocking, as stated in last weeks issue, but to James Farley, for whom Stocking was working. Elk Rapids Progress of 5-19-1898
We received the following message last Saturday from Mrs. George H. Fergus. "Perry O. Stocking died May 13, 1898, in Chicago, aged 64 year. Intement in Granceland Cemetery."(Research):book (Noble Memories) about the author's memories about the Stocking family: "...young Perry Stocking, as I remember him, was morose. Never smiling, just like his dad in that respect. He was never known to smile as far as I can recollect. Perry Stocking's farm, I believe, was on the corner of Elk Lake and Town Line roads. He had a brother, Jerome Stocking, who I think must have been a good friend of Dad's, for filed among his possessions is a photo of Jerome with quite an inscription on the back. Jerome had settled in California. There was Owen Stocking, whether a brother or nephew, I'm not sure, and a Stocking sister, Mrs. Mary Fergus, who lived to be ninety. The Stocking family had come to Elk Rapids when Mrs. Fergus was only about twelve. They had driven their cattle, and some of the family had gone on foot, with yet others coming by sailboat from Grand Haven. The Elk Lake district, where the Stocking farm was, was even at an early time pretty well populated with good, solid citizens..... The book was written by Perry Noble, son of E.S. Noble of Elk Rapids. It's a very entertaining book. I got it at the Traverse City library.
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