VERN HANEY, born June 19, 1897, at Hartford, Mich. GLENN HANEY, born May, 20, 1899, at Hartford, M`ch. MYRNIE IMOGENE CHALLANS married, December 27, 1893, at Bangor Mich., FRANK CLARK, born at Hartford, Mich. Their children were:

HARLEY CLARK, born Aug. 13, 1894, at Bangor, Mich.

CARL CLARK, born June 15, 1896, at Bangor,
WILLIAM CHALLANS married, December 1881, at
Hartford, Mich., IDA EASTERN [born (date unknown),
daughter of William Eastern]. Their children were:

OREL D. CHALLANS, born Aug., 1885, at Bangor,
Mich.

William Challans died December 23, 1888, at Bangor.
LAURA CHALLANS married, April 6, 1880, at Covert,
Mich., CHARLES MORGAN [born Oct. 19, 1853, at Bainbridge,
Mich., son of John Morgan, of Schoharie county, N. Y.].
Their children were:

JESSIE MORGAN, born July 23, 1881, at Pipestone, Mich.
GRACE ELMYRA MORGAN, born May 20, 1885, at Sodus,

Mich.

FRED MORGAN, born Dec. 27, 1889, at Sodus, Mich.

JULIA CHALLANS married, October, 1879, at South
Haven, Mich., JOHN BURBANK [born (date unknown), son of
Cortis Burbank]. Their children were:

CORTIS WILLIAM BURBANK, born June 13, 1880, at
Covert, Mich.

JANE CHALLANS married, February, 1885, at Hartford, Mich., ALFRED RICHMOND. Their children were:

ORLO A. RICHMOND, born June - 1886, at Paw Paw,

CLARENCE CHALLANS married, March ——, 1896, at Benton Harbor, Mich., SOPHIA BAKEMAN [born in 1877, daughter of Henry Bakeman]. No further record.

PHEBE ANN VORCE married, but no particulars have been obtained.

MALVILA VORCE married NORMAN BARTLETT; no further particulars obtained.*

MONTGOMERY VORCE married, first, June 18, 1863, HANNAH VAN WORMER. Their children were:

MELVIN VORCE, born Aug. 28, 1865, at Sandy Creek, Oswego county, N. Y.; died unm. at Milwaukee, Wis.,

March 2, 1885.

MERTON VORCE, born Sept. 18, 1868.

CLAUDE VORCE, born in 1870.

MABEL VORCE, born in 1875, at

MONTGOMERY VORCE, born May 15, 1879.

Hannah Van Wormer Vorce died October 2, 1886, at

Montgomery Vorce married, second, May 4, 1895, MRS. CLARA (Hamlin) HYDE. They had no children; she had two children by her first husband, viz:

EVA HYDE, born March 30, 1878, married

LUTHER HYDE, born April 22, 1880.

OLDS.

MERTON VORCE married AGNES MAHONEY. They had three children; names are unknown.

CLAUDE VORCE married MARTHA

They had

two children, whose names are unknown.

MABEL VORCE married HENRY MCGEE. They had two children; names not ascertained.

PART II.

JOHN VORCE.

JOHN VORCE was born on Long Island; the exact date is not known, but it must have been about 1780. He was a son of one of three brothers who were driven from France on account of their religious principles, and settled on Long Island. The names and subsequent history of the three brothers cannot be ascertained. John Vorce married, about 1809? (the place and exact date of his marriage not being known), MARY DOWELL, of whom no further particulars have been obtained. Their children were:

JOHN VORCE, born March 22, 1810, at the town of Half
Moon, Saratoga county, N. Y.

ISAAC VORCE, born in 1812? (Also called Isher Vorce.) John Vorce died in 1813, at Saratoga county? Mary Dowell Vorce died (date and place not ascertained) (1816?).

ISAAC (Isher) VORCE went to California at an early date and died there. Nothing further is known of him.

JOHN VORCE married, February 12, 1836, at (?), N. Y., MARCELLA MElissa McMastER [born June 8, 1816, at Syracuse, N. Y., daughter of Wm. McMaster]. Their children

were:

ANN E. VORCE, born Aug. 3, 1838, at Sandy Creek, Oswego county, N. Y.

MARIA VORCE, born Jan. 12, 1840, at Almyr, Canada.

ZELINDA VORCE, born July 8, 1842, at Almyr.

CHARITY VORCE, born 1844; died young, at Almyr.

Adaline VoRCE, born March 18, 1847, at Almyr.

LUCIUS REYNOLDS VORCE, born Nov. 8, 1849, at Eaton
Rapids, Mich.

WILLIAM ALASTER VORCE, born Dec. 12, 1851, at Eaton
Rapids.

MACK VORCE, born Aug. 11, 1860, at Eaton Rapids. John Vorce during most of his life was a miller. He possessed an exceedingly retentive memory, and but for his tender age at the the time of his father's death would undoubtedly have been able to give information of great value in tracing the common ancestor of the Vorce families living in Dutchess county

and New England in the Colonial period. He made the journey to California after he was eighty years of age, and on the return trip he walked over 500 miles of the way in order to more thoroughly observe the country. John Vorce died at Eaton Rapids, April 16, 1899. Marcella Vorce died at the same place August 18, 1899.

ANN E. VORCE married, December 31, 1857, at

JAMES M. COVEY, born March 6, 1831. Their children were:
LAURINDA COVEY, born June 7, 1865, at Springport, Mich.
MABELL COVEY, born Nov. 24, 1875, at Springport.
DELIA COVEY, born April 22, 1880, at Springport.
Also five boys, none of whom lived beyond childhood.
MARIA VORCE married, January 14, 1858, at Eaton Rapids,
Mich., ELISHA AUSTIN CRANSON [born October 29, 1832, at
New York, son of Oris Cranson]. Their children are:
WILLIAM VINCENT CRANSON born Dec. 14, 1858; died

Sept. 15, 1859, at Onondaga, Mich.

CHARLES CRANSON, born Oct. 11, 1862, at Onondaga. ELSON HENRY CRANSON, born Sept. 14, 1864, at Springport.

M. IRENE CRANSON, born April 12, 1871, at Springport. ZELINDA VORCE married, November 26, 1863, at Sandstone, JOHN CHAPPELL [born November 24, 1838, at Leroy, N. Y., son of Samuel Chappell]. Their children were:

MARY CHAPPELL, born Sept. 6, 1864, at Springport,
ADELBERT CHAPPELL, born March 1, 1866, at Springport.
MYRTA CHAPPELL, born May 24, 1868, at Springport.
EDITH CHAPPELL, born March 4, 1872, at Springport.
ALLEN CHAPPELL, born Nov. 8, 1875, at Springport.-
EBEN CHAPPELL, born Feb. 17, 1880, at Springport.
SAMUEL CHAPPELL, born Dec. 26, 1885, at Springport.

Edith Chappell died October 2, 1891, at Springport.

ADALINE VORCE married PERRY W. BATES. They had several children, but no further information has been obtained regarding them. Adaline Bates died February 3, 1887. LUCIUS R. VORCE died January 3, 1889, at Eaton Rapids, unmarried.

WILLIAM A. VORCE married, at Eaton Rapids, on February 14, 1878, HELEN M. OSBORN, born at Mentor, Ohio, June 4, 1856. Their only child was:

NORMA BELLE VORCE, born Sept. 15, 1884, at Eaton
Rapids, Mich.

MACK VORCE married CLARA BURLSON. Their children, if any, are not ascertained.*

LAURINDA COVEY married, January 15, 1885, at Eaton Rapids, JAMES CLARKE [born July 18, 1862, at Warwickshire, Eng., son of William Clarke]. Their children were:

CECILE CLARKE, born Aug. 2, 1889, at Eaton Rapids.

WILLIAM J. CLARKE, born May 7, 1891, at Aurelius, Mich. ELSON H. CRANSON married, March 25, 1886, at Eaton Rapids, CORA BURLISON. Their children are:

PEARL CRANSON, born Sept. 3, 1887, at Eaton Rapids. M. IRENE CRANSON married, December 31, 1896, at Springport, NATHAN G. DEAN.

MARY CHAPPELL married, November 15, 1888, at Springport, WILLIAM HENRY PLATT [born May 6, 1858, at Warren, Ohio, son of Jeremiah Platt]. Their children are:

JOHN J. PLATT, born March 11, 1890, at Springport.

ADELBERT CHAPPELL married, November 8, 1893, at
Springport, MYRTLE BELL [born October 30, 1869, at Battle
Creek, daughter of Merton Bell]. Their children were:

MILDRED BELL CHAPPELL, born March 30, 1896, at
Springport.

DORIS DELL CHAPPELL, born Sept. 30, 1898, at Spring-
port.

MYRTA CHAPPELL married, April 2, 1891, at Springport, HEZEKIAH EDWARD PLATT [born Oct. 8, 1864, at Parma, son of Jeremiah Platt]. Their children were:

EDITH B. PLATT, born July 2, 1894, at Springport.

ALLEN CHAPPELL married, January 1, 1900, at Marshall, Mich., BERTHA HORTON [born August 18, 1879, at Hastings, daughter of Alonzo Horton].

DION VORCE.

DION VORCE was born in Canada (?); date unknown. He claimed to be of French descent, and that his ancestral name was La Vorce, also that one of the La Vorces was banished from France and came to America and settled in Delaware.