Biography of  Jeremiah Hemstreet, page 770.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Jeremiah Hemstreet was born in Half Moon, Saratoga Co., N.Y., in 1803.  He 
was reared in Herkimer and Lewis counties, N.Y.  He married Sabrina 
Merchant, who died in New York.  Their four children are also all deceased. 
After the death of his wife he went to Huron County, Ohio, and there married 
Mariam M. Smith, a native of New York, who went with her parents to Ohio 
when twelve years of age. In 1842 Mr. Hemstreet loaded his household goods 
on a wagon and with his family started for De Kalb County.  He entered a 
tract of wild land from the Government on what is now section 22, Smithfield 
Township.  He has been a hard working, persevering man, and has cleared, 
broken and fenced over 100 acres of land with his own hands, and at the age 
of eighty-two years is still hale and hearty.  To Mr. and Mrs. Hemstreet 
have been born seven children; but five are living---Cornelia, wife of John 
Campbell; Sabrina, wife of Jotham Woolsey;  Mary, wife of  Orlando Seery; 
Ellen, wife of Adam Strow, Albert F., of San Francisco, Cal.  The latter 
is a native of Smithfield Township, born Sept. 12, 1843.  Melvina died at 
the age of nine months, and Alonzo, aged thirty years.

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