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                  <text>zie Eouee::: ]_:::-if. from 3ichard Hadcliffe 1855. village lot

18.

(house built by Col. -1 chn .Â·:ar:ren ,Jr. in 181_5)
}1::..:J".dred feet down river ~'!e co:'.le to tirn Kenneth TTc.
zie
~-wuse. This was the "Jerverbial o:td fashioned fram1'fhouse; ::i.nd
alth011gh i t was onii-::y ten or twelve feet back from the road, yet

it had sor,1e pretern:.'&gt;ions tc external sdorrn:1ent, as there were a COUJJlc
of lilac tress in the front yard ,vi th a hop vine gr ,Â·,wing over the
norch. rrhe latter was both Â·useful and ornanental for every woman
made her own yeast. Lt the side ar:3. :rear was a nice fruit and
was the oldest in the nlace and considerably o~er onehundred years
of age. rrhere were Â·also two large i1ear trees, on the vvest side of the

this country by the Jesuit Fathers when the country was French.
'11h .ese trees are still s._ .tanding and bearing fruit. The only other
~qlace the san.m fruit grows is on the Canadj_tm side of the Detroit
River. Charlotte Stanton Warren wife of John Warren.
Before her marriage to Kenneth Jic .Kenzie sl:..e was the widow of
~l.

â€¢

John 'Harren, and had a farn:Lly ~onsj_sting of five daughters
one son by the- first husband. 1i.'hev were al1 married , 11m'irtf'iier

noneÂ· have lived in l"ort Brie for many years.
CaJ;Jt. Henry B. Warren( her son) l:n.:c:3iness took him away from
town for a large J;iortion of ,the time, hovrnver his famtly, c onsistj_ng
of a

:te and three daughters lived in the village. One of them a

d!:auf;hter Hrs. C. Riselay still lives therG ..

taken down 1913 â€¢

â€¢

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