The William and Alice (Setchfield) Holmes and Carlos E. Hait Families in Michigan, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Colorado, 1840-1992

Book excerpt: William Holmes (bp. 1806, d. 1885), son of Francis and Alice Brown Holmes, married Alice Setchfield (1806-1880), daughter of William and Anna Loomes Setchfield, in 1827 at St. Andrew's in Whittlesey. They spent the first forty-three years of their life in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, England. In 1848 William Holmes and his 20-year old son, William Francis, left England for America. The rest of his family followed in 1850. They settled in Oceola Township, Livingston Co., Michigan. Carlos Emory Hait (1828-1893) was born at Clyde, Wayne Co. N.Y. He lived in Michigan, Iowa, Tennessee and died in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas. He married (1) Jerusha Tuttle (1833-1857), born in Wysox, Pa.; (2) Elizabeth Bennett (Elizabeth Bennett Richardson), a widow, in 1868.