St. Clair County Poor Farm - Wales Township and Goodells Michigan History

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Kathleen Rodegeb

More options Apr 12, 9:38 pm

From: "Kathleen Rodegeb" <krode...@earthlink.net>

Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:38:09 -0700

Local: Sun, Apr 12 2009 9:38 pm

Subject: RE: St. Clair County Poor Farm

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Thanks for the reply! This is nice to know, do you have anything more on the
eventual development of the poor farm, its growth and demise through the
years?

I would not even have found the cemetery had I not encountered someone who
was there walking his dog and had just happened to have passed through a
field "with one headstone in the middle of it" only moments before our
encounter. He has lived in the area his entire life and never knew of the
cemetery until that day. Wow!

Kathleen

-----Original Message-----
From: wales-township-goodells-michigan@googlegroups.com

[mailto:wales-township-goodells-michigan@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ron
Dove
Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2009 6:29 PM
To: wales-township-goodells-michigan@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: St. Clair County Poor Farm

It used to be owned by Bob Bailey who was my g-grandmother's brother (Rose
Bailey).

According to my grandmother, and some sites you may find on the history of
Wales, Bob Bailey owned the land and his wife sold it after his death.

It used to be known as the Bailey Homestead.

-
Ron Dove

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Kathleen Rodegeb <krode...@earthlink.net>
wrote:
> Hi all members. I was recently in Michigan and visited what used to be
> the St. Clair County Poor Farm, now the Goodells County Park. Nice
> park, but there is not a shred of the Poor Farm history preserved in
> that park, what a shame! Not even the Poor Farm Cemetery is marked and
> no sign directing anyone to it, no sign of its existence. I think this
> is a travesty of historical preservation. Does anyone know of or does
> anyone have any historical material relative to the Poor Farm?

> I am the webmaster for the St. Clair County MIGenWeb and would like to
> put something together on it. I would also like to start an effort to
> have the cemetery fence fixed up and get a monument in there with the
> names of the souls who are spending their eternal sleeps in that
> little patch of ground. I also think the park should have a kiosk or
> something of the sort with history about the Poor Farm. After all,
> they are creating an historical park there and the farm is a very rich
> part of that history.

> Kathleen

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