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SLATER
The first Slater to come to the Pickford area was Josiah Slater and his wife, Susan, in the year 1877. They moved into the Rockview area with their family which included Walter, Clara, Florence, Annie, and Minnie. Mr. Slater cleared his property by cutting the hardwood, maple, and beech trees. Lumber for the buildings was obtained from these trees. He also found wotk in the lumber camps that were situated in the area. Josiah is well remembered by the residents of Marquette Township, as he took the U. S. census in 1910 and in 1920. He also took a farm census in 1914. Josiah was an old man when he covered the Township for the 1920 census. A great deal of the traveling was done on snowshoes.
WALTER never married and stayed at home while working to help out on the family income. CLARA married and moved away from here. FLORENCE remained single and helped with the farm work. She often drove a team of oxen to Cedarville where she and her mother sold homemade butter and garden produce.
ANNIE married Charlie Hill who came here from Marlette and settled on the farm south of the Rockview Cemetery where Mrs. Hill stilllives. They raised two boys, Harold and Roland. Roland lives in Texas and has five children. Harold married Etta Wonnacott and still lives near Pickford with his family: Carol, Chuck of Big Rapids, Nancy, and Paula.
MINNIE married Jim Williams, a neighbor, and moved to Ann Arbor where she stilllives. After the death of Jim Williams, she married Emile Barbiawt and her friends here know her by that name.
In 1906, GEORGE SLATER came to Pickford to visit his uncle, Josiah, and his family. He loved the forest country so much that he stayed and worked in the lumber camps in winter and hired out to farmers for the summer work where he learned to do the haying and harvesting, as well as the plowing and care of the fatm animals. He bought 80 acres of land from William Miller, located two miles south and two miles west of Pickford. However, before he could improve it, he was drafted for military service in World War I. He served in France and on the German border until the Armistice. After he returned, he married Janet Crawford of Stalwart and they settled on the farm where he cleared about 40 acres of land. He served as Township Clerk of Marquette Township from 1924 until his death in 1937. Janet Slater still lives here in Pickford and is active in church, Grange, and community activities. She was Marquette Township Clerk until she tetired in 1965. They raised six children: Jane, Marion, Jack, Robert and Patricia, (twins), and Fred.
Jane married Edmund Carr and lives in Sault Ste, Marie, Their grown sons are Mark and Randy.
Marion married Paul Mende and lives in Downers Grove, Illinois, with their four girls: Janet, Barbara, Patsy, and Paula.
Jack married Evelyn Kennedy and they have three girls: Jeanne (who is married to John Bennin and has a daughter, Amy.), Nancy at L.S.S.C., and Jacklyn. Jack owns and operated Slater's Citgo Service Station and is a volunteer fireman.
Robert married Elaine Mattson of Rudyard and they live three and one-half miles south of Pickford with their six children: George, Joanne, Rodney, Donald, David, and Steven. Bob is employed at Lipsett's Garage and is a volunteer fireman.
Patsy married John Sullivan of Dearborn and has three children:Mary kay, Rebecca, and John.
Fred, the youngest, married Sharon Simmons of Cedarville. For short time he operated a television business in Pickford, but moved to Dearborn Heights where he is employed at Bendix Company. Their three children are Fred, Jr., Deborah, and Sue. Fred passed away in 1966 from a kidney ailment.
SMITH (JOSEPH)
Joseph was born on May 11, 1838, in Frampton, Ontario. He went to Wisconsin in 1873 and married Margaret Wilson of Wisconsin. Joseph Smith, his wife, and two boys came to Pickford in 1878 and entered the lumber business with William Hossack in Raber. Joseph and Margaret had five boys: HARRY, WALTER, FRED, HERBERT, and ARTHUR. Joseph Smith died Oct. 25, 1915 and is buried in Cedarville Cemetery. Mrs. Smith then went back to Wisconsin.
HARRY was born March 4, 1875. He went to college and got his Mastet's Degree ftom the University of Wisconsin. He taught high school in Wisconsin, Florida, and Missouri. He died in Lexington, Missouri, and is buried there.
WALTER was born Jan. 12, 1876. He studied dentistry and lived in Wisconsin.
FRED was born March 2, 1879. In 1896 Fred J. went to Cedarville and worbd for Hossack for several years before he moved to Pickford to operate the feed mill. Fred Smith and Hossack
Brothers bought the Pickford Grocery and operated it a few years, then sold it to E. S. Taylor. Mr. Smith was Postmaster for many years and a member of the Board of Education. He married Jenny Dunn who died in 1919 and later married Alma Quinnell. He had 8 children: Arthur, Glen, Norman, Alice, June, Lonaine, Marion, and Arlene. Mr. Smith died Dec. 26, 1954. Mrs. Smith lives in Chicopee, Massachusetts, and visits in Pickford in the summers. Alice is Mrs. Rudy Cousino. June (Mrs. Donald Smith of Sault Ste. Marie) has two children, Cathy (Mrs. Alan Reamer of Pickford) and Mike . Lorraine (Mrs. Elmer Newman of Raber) has two children Janet and Bruce. Marion is Mrs. Garlick and Arlene is Mrs. Rodorwitz.
HERBERT was born July 11, 1881. He went to school and studied photography and came to this area in 1906 in that profession. He settled in the Fairview area where he engaged in lumbering, trapping, and other activities. He was a State Conservation Officer and State Trapper from 1925-1932. He married Maud Nalley and had one son, Kenneth, who is in the television businessin Pickford. Herbert died July 4, 1957, and Mrs. Smith on March 15, 1952. Kenneth married Marie Beacom Hgrrison and they have one daughter, Rosa. She is married to Roger Bennin and they have one son, Roger*. Marie has one son, Lyle Harrlson. He married Deloris Melvin and they have five children.
ARTHUR was born October 3, 1884. He worked a year in the feed mill, then went to Kenosh College in Racine, Wisconsin, and taught at the State Teachers College in Wisconsin for 35 years. He died at the age of 82 on August 15, 1966, in Wisconsin.
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