1Cheri Astrahan.
Named the children of William Kimbrell and Martha J.
1Cheri Astrahan.
2003 she is living.
1Lois Jane Pettey.
George was born and reared in Cleveland, Ohio and received his education in its public schools. He was a soldier of the Civil War, enlisting May 1864, in Company D. One Hundred and Fiftieth Ohio Volunteer infantry, for one hundred days’ service round Washington, D. C. For three years he engaged in farming in Lorain County, Ohio, prior to his return to Cleveland for the purpose of studying medicine. He was matriculated in the medical department of the Western Reserve University in 1867, but accompanied his parents to Bethany Township, Gratiot County, Michigan returning to the institution named, however, and completing his professional education. In 1873 he graduated with the time-honored degree and located for practice in Bethany Township, near St. Louis, Michigan. He remained there for three years, removing to Fremont, Ohio where for the ensuing decade he engaged in most creditable professional work. Dr. Pettey married Miss Emma L. Quidort in Fremont, Ohio, in January 1878. Their children were, William M., who died aged fourteen years; Jennie B., now Mrs. R. Boyd Cawthorpe, of Grand Rapids; Blanche M., now Mrs. Hallett Curtis, of Pine River, Michigan. Dr. Pettey’s close attention and strenuous labor having affected his health, he then settled on his farm in Bethany Township continuing to employ himself in agricultural pursuits for four years. Then he sold the property and removed to St. Louis, Michigan to resume the practice of medicine. For twelve years he served as health officer of St. Louis and in April 1905, was appointed a member of the Board of Examining Surgeons of the Alma Pension Board.
This article was published in 1906. Genealogy research by Randall R. Pettey.
1Lois Jane Pettey.
In early life Ephraim Pettey was a Cleveland grocer, but longing for a more healthful out-of-door life, he purchased forty acres of land in Bethany Township, Gratiot County, Michigan, and in May 1869, removed thither with his family for the purpose of engaging in truck gardening. He was the pioneer in that line of agriculture in Gratiot County, and pushed his venture to such happy results that, in 1885 he retired from active labors and located at St. Louis, Michigan. There he and his wife passed many years in comfort and quiet, his death occurring May 1, 1901, at the age of eighty-two, and hers at the same age, on December 15, 1899.
1Lois Jane Pettey.
Michael and Elizabeth (Avery) Pettey, the paternal grandparents of Dr. George W. Pettey, were born respectively in Vermont and New York. The grandfather was a jobber and contractor. He served as a soldier in the War of 1812. The paternal great-grandfather, who was a son of the Green Mountain State, was in his younger years a sailor, and later was a farmer in Jefferson county, New York, he passed his last days in Ashtabula county, Ohio.2Lois Jane Pettey.
Michael was born 1788 in Vermont, married Elizabeth Avery and had several children while in Henderson, Jefferson County NY or thereabouts. He moved to Cleveland and died there.