- I think this Christopher S. Hibbard is probably the one who shows up in Bellevue, Eaton County Michigan some time before 1860. In the 1860 census for Bellevue he has wife Mary [Young] and a 1 year old daughter. Mary evidently died soon afterward. 6 July 1861 he married a step-niece of Mary's, 16 year old Electa Stevens. That marriage was annulled. Around 1867 he married a widow, Polly Ann Reed. The 1870 Bellevue census shows him with Polly Ann, his 11 year old daughter by the earlier marriage (her name was Ella, though this is not clear in the censuses), 1 year old Jane and 5 month old Christopher. In 1880 there is a third child, Kirk. He probably died before 1883, because he is not listed as an heir in the probate documents. Christopher S. Hibbard died 7 August 1882 in Bellevue and is buried there. He was a stonemason. I haven't come across his birthdate, but the 1870 and 1880 census give him a birthdate of about 1813, birthplace New York, and he is always "Christopher S." in legal documents.
Meredith Stoehr
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