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John Martin BLUNT
Lomira Omelia HOPKINS
Husband:  John Martin BLUNT
Birth:  22 Sep 1811, near Albany, [Albany Co.], NY
Death:  24 Sep 1862, Warren, Macomb Co., MI
Occupation:  farmer
Politics:  Republican
Marriage:  28 May 1837, Royal Oak, Oakland Co., MI
Wife:  Lomira Omelia HOPKINS
Birth:  21 Jul 1816, East Bloomfield, Ontario Co., NY
Death:  24 Feb 1901, Warren, Macomb Co., MI
Occupation:  homemaker
Father:  Socrates HOPKINS
Mother:  Laura VOSBURG
Children:
— born in Bloomfield, Oakland Co., MI:
1.  Laura Permelia BLUNT, b. 2 Apr 1838; m. 24 Oct 1862, Beauclerk Topham BRADLEY

— born in Warren, Macomb Co., MI:
2.  Berinthia Mary BLUNT, b. 11 Dec 1841
3.  Almeda/Almedia Omelia BLUNT, b. 6 May 1845; d. 13 Feb ????, Warren, Macomb Co., MI
4.  Martin Hopkins BLUNT, b. 27 Feb 1848; m. 27 Aug 1885, Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., MI, Catherine "Kate" SANNER


Sources (n.b., Oakland and Macomb Cos. are adjacent):

1.  LDS.  Family Search: Internet Genealogy Service:  IGI - International Genealogical Index (online at FamilySearch.org).
Martin BLUNT
Spouse: Lornna O. HOPKINS
Marriage: 28 May 1837, Oakland, Michigan
Source: Record of Marriages, 1827-1919. Oakland County (Michigan). County Clerk

2.  1840 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #1 of 6; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•
1840 MI Macomb Co. Warren Twp. pp. 255A Ln. 30 Martin Blunt 000 010 - 100 010 0100000
These data indicate:
No. & Sex Age Class Therefore Born Individuals Inferred
1 male 20-29 1810-1820 = Martin (b. 1811)
1 female 4 or under 1835-1840 = Laura (b. 1838)
1 female 20-29 1810-1820 = Lomira (b. 1816)
1 person employed in agriculture

3.  1850 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image #5 of 17):  Warren, Macomb Co., MI, p. 174A, 974/974, enumerated 2 Sep 1850, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1850 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•
Martin Blunt 38 M   Farmer 1200 NY
Lamira O   " 34 F       "
Laura P    " 12 F       Mich
Marintha M "  9 F       "
Almeda O   "  5 F       "
Martin H   "  2 M       "

4.  1860 Census Index/Images (online at Genealogy.com, Image #1 of 32):  Rochester P.O., Royal Oak Twp., Oakland Co., MI, Roll 556 (Book 1), p. 515, PN 89, 684/666, enumerated 21 Jun 1860, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1860 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•
Martin Blunt 48 M   Farmer 6000 1000 NY
Lomira     " 44 F         "
Laura P    " 22 F   Domestic     Mich
Berinthia M " 18 F   Common S. Teacher     "
Almeda O    " 15 F   Domestic     "
Martin H    " 12 M         "

5.  1870 Census Index/Images (online at Genealogy.com, Image #27 of 38):  Royal Oak P.O., Royal Oak Twp., Oakland Co., MI, Roll 695 (Book 1), p. 522A, PN 27, 210/210, enumerated 14 Jun 1870, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1870 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•
Blunt Lamira 51 F W Keeping House 8000 1100 Ireland
_____ Martin 21 M W Farmer     Michigan
_____ Almeda 16 F W       Michigan
Lamira was born in New York, not Ireland.  Almeda is 25, not 16.

6.  1880

7.  1890 Census:  the 1890 Census Population Schedules were destroyed.

8.  1900

9.  Timothy Hopkins.  1932.  John Hopkins of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1634, and Some of His Descendants. Stanford Univ. Press, Stanford, CA (available as a facsimile reprint from Higginson Books and online by subscription at GenealogyLibrary.com):
p. 358 LOMIRA OMELIA,8 b. 21 July 1816; m. at Royal Oak, Michigan, 28 May 1837, John Martin Blunt, b. near Albany, New York, 22 September 1811.  He d. at Warren, 24 September 1862; she d. there 24 February 1901.  He was a farmer of Warren, Michigan, and a Repbulican.

Children, all but eldest born at Warren, surname Blunt:

  I.  LAURA PERMELIA, b. 2 April 1838, at Bloomfield, Michigan; m. at Warren, 24 October 1862, Beauclerk Topham Bradley.  Of Port Hope, Michigan.
 II.  BERINTHIA MARY, b. 11 December 1841; d. 17 May 1891, at Birmingham, MIchigan.
III.  ALMEDIA OMELIA, b. 6 May 1845; d. at Warren 13 February 1820 (sic).
 IV.  MARTIN HOPKINS, b. 27 February 1848; m. at Ypsilanti, 27 August 1885, Kate Sanner.

Almedia can't have died 25 years before she was born.

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