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| Grandison C. Tousey, farmer, sec. 34, Hinton Tp., is a son of Louzon and Lucy (Lyman) Tousey, who were born in Connecticut, and came to Mich. as pioneers of Wayne County. G.C.Tousey was born Nov.19, 1832. He came with his parents when a lad, to Kalamazoo County, and there he was occupied with farming until the spring of 1872. Then he came to Mecosta County and located in Hinton Tp., where he had entered 160 acres of Government land in 1858. On this tract he has since resided, and now has 70 acres under a good degree of improvement. Mr. Tousey is a Democrat in political faith, and has been Justice of the Peace for one year. He enlisted in the year of 1861 in the 13th Michigan Vol. Inf., and after an arduous three years of service was honorably discharged Jan. 16, 1865, at Savannah , Ga. He was not off duty a single day and did not once answer the surgeon’s call. He was in action at Pittsburg Landing, Stone River, Perrysville, Ky., Chickamunga, Siege of Cornith, Missionary Ridge, Lookout Mountain, and marched to the sea with Sherman. He had a narrow escape from capture at Stone River. A retreat was ordered and by some mischance he found himself wedged between boulders, the rebel forces soon within alarming distance of his singular prison house. Extricating himself with great effort, he crawled back and joined his regiment making the transit between two fires, but coming out unharmed. He is an honored member of the G.A.R., and also belongs to the M.E. Church. Mr. Tousey was married in Kalamazoo Co., Mich. June 28, 1867, to Elvira, daughter of Jared and Elizabeth (Holcomb) Goodrich, who was born March 19, 1828, in New York. The parents were born in New York also. Mr. and Mr. Tousey have one child born June 28, 1868. |