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7 <br />legal description <br />Lot 63 Kiefer's Wooddale Proposal <br />-1- t7t- oz <br />icy -7 - IS' qy to <br />historical notes <br />Frederick Rufus Cowles settled near Sodus, Michigan with his brother and started <br />a sawmill. A third brother had settled on Section 13 - Clay Township. In 1873, <br />Frederick Cowles came to St. Joseph County and his brother went to Michigan. <br />Frederick had just married his second wife, Elizabeth Kinkaid Leake. <br />Although there was already a house on the property, Frederick decided to build <br />a new one to replace it. He had the wood sawn at his brother's mill and hauled <br />to Clay Township. The house was finished aroudn 1875. <br />Frederick Rufus Cowles died May 17, 1878. Elizabeth Kincaid Cowles died March 30, <br />1914. The property is owned today by Wayne and Dean Plank who are their great <br />grandchildren. <br />source of information <br />"Gleanings of Clay Township, St. Joseph County for My Own. Pleasure" Mrs. Irma <br />H. Post (Unpublished manuscript on microfilm at South Bend Public Library) circa <br />1973 (There are several family photographs as well as photographs of the house <br />in Mrs. Post's manuscript.) <br />Clay Township Assessor's Office <br />