Jim & Alice LaPeer
"A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies."
(Proverbs 31:10)
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LaPeer Family History
350 Years in America... 250 years in Michigan
LaPeer, Ragsdell, Morgan, Spivey, Baker, Smith, Owen... French, Irish, Welsh, Scottish, English, Dutch, Swiss, Swedish, Finnish... These are the family surnames & nationalities that make up our family's heritage... and are then preceded by our Native American ancestors of the Ottawa, Potawatomi, Cherokee, and Choctaw nations. Look here for 'interesting' family Stories, Oral Histories, Pictures, Articles, and Documents...
Who was John
McGulpin... and what Landmark is named after him at
the Straits of Mackinac ?
The 250th Anniversary of John McGulpin's Michigan arrival is being celebrated Oct 15-16, 2011
When... and Why... did Alice's family name of 'Ragsdale' get changed to 'Ragsdell' ?
What Ship of the Great Lakes went down in a terrible storm... and started 'our' LaPeer family line ?
Where was Grandfather Morgan... when Major Sauerwein was shot?
World War I... At the Front in France... Sept 26, 1918.
What famous Morgan relative lost his Wife & infant Son... while crossing the Atlantic from Wales in 1711 ?
Abel Morgan I, famous Baptist Preacher, Welsh-English concordance, helped found Brown University.
What family relative reportedly 'led the mob' that ran the Mormons off Beaver Island ?
Why did the Ku Klux Klan raid ggrandfather Morgan's plantation in 1930 Tenessee ?
What other early relative has a County park named after her in Southern Michigan ?
Who is the Family buried under the Boulders at Aunt May's Farm ? ... And Why ?
Where does the old Family story of "Bloody Bones & GooGoo Eyes" come from ?
What relative had a British Canon Ball shot through his Church in the Revolutionary War ?
Come back again soon... more additions underway.