Carrh D. Barron
Was born February 15, 1809, in Owosco, Cayuga county, New York. His father, Bethuel Barron, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and died at Clarkson, Monroe county, New York, about 1813, when C. D. Barron was small. On the 9th of May, 1840, Carrh D. Barron was married to Eliza Eggleston, then living in Owosco. She was born March 25, 1810, in Marcellus, Onondaga county, New York, and died November 5, 1869. The issue of this marriage was a family of five children, born as follows: Almon, born August 6, 1841 ; married November 15, 1865, to Sarah, daughter of Daniel F. Johnson, also of Groveland. Mary E.,born April 24, 1843; married to Oscar Mitchell, of Atlas, Genesee county, Michigan, January 1, 1865. Sarah E., born May 2, 1845 ; married to William Brosius, also of Atlas, Genesee county, October 5, 1862. Udolpha H., born September 16, 1848; died April 5, 1851. Barton D., born October 31, 1851; married to Ella Phipps, of Groveland, in November, 1869.Mr. Barron was married March 2, 1870, to Mrs. Sarah M. (Thurston) Beach, of Brandon township. His present wife is one of a family of ten children, all living but one. Her father was twice married, and had five children each by his two wives. She was born July 6, 1812, in Rochester, New York, where her father, Aaron Thurston, was an early settler. Her grandfather, Moses Munson, was one of the early settlers of Michigan, having settled in Oakland township, Oakland County, in 1825, when Mrs. Barron was in her thirteenth year. He built a saw mill in that township. He was accompanied by his own family, and that of his son, Samuel C. Munson. Mrs. Barron, whose maiden name was Sarah M. Thurston, was married to Erastus Beach, In the State of New York, in 1830, she having gone back to that State. She had four children by her first husband, two sons and two daughters, all dead but the oldest child, Ann Eliza, now the wife of Aaron Smith, of Brandon township. She was born June 28, 1831. Newton R. Beach (Mrs. B.'s second child) was born September 18, 1843; George E., November 16, 1844; Ellen, December 13, 1845. Mr, Barron is a Republican in politics, and a very successful farmer.