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NEW:  PLEASE TAKE NOTE THAT ALL THE BOYS OF JAMES WELCH HAD BLUE EYES.  We  have some pictures without the name of all the people.  If you could  identify any of the people please let me know.  
 ALSO THERE IS SOME MILITARY INFORMATION TO CHECK OUT THE PICTURES.

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*Special thanks to the relatives I have yet to meet that have contributed so  much to the page.  We plan to have your photos uploaded soon.*

Article about Uriah Welch in Lake County, Michigan
 Uriah N. Welch?Settled on the south half of the southeast quarter section 36,  Dover township, in the Winter of 1870.  The soil is clay loam, with about 66  acres improved; good spring water.  Has a log house and two log barns.  There  are some 200 apple trees (some bearing), and plum, pear, cherry and small  fruits.  Keeps 4 horses, 2 oxen, 5 cows, 10 young cattle, 6 hogs and poultry;  and in 1878, had 13 acres wheat, 8 acres corn, 2 acres buckwheat, 3 acres  potatoes (over 400 bushels), ½ acre beans, 33 acres timothy and 5 acres tame  pasture.  Sowed 7 acres wheat, last Fall.  Mr. W. also, owns the north half of  the northeast quarter section 1, Ellsworth township, which with 40 acres in  Leroy township, Osceola county, makes 200 acres.  It is probably safe to say  that he has the leading farm of that locality.

Article about James Welch in Lake County, Michigan
 James H. Welch?Took up a homestead on the west half of the southwest quarter  of Section 24, Dover township, in the Fall of 1869.  The soil is sand and clay  loam, with beech and maple timber; no better land in the State, probably.  He  has forty acres under improvement; a log house, log barn; and has a nursery of  some 500 apple trees.  Has some cherry trees, with currant and strawberry.   For shade, he is letting a portion of the original forest trees stand.  Keeps  a cow.  In 1878 he had 1 ½ acres wheat, 7 acres oats, 2 acres buckwheat, 2  acres potatoes, 3 acres rye, and 10 acres of timothy and clover hay.  About  five years ago he set out 600 strawberry plants?the latter part of October?and  the following season harvested six bushels of fine berries from the patch.   Mr. W. has excellent water on his place, there being four or five springs,  with running streams from two of them.  The lay of the land is slightly  rolling.