Lafayette C. Coller

  General Notes:

Lafayette Coller was listed as 14 in the 1870 Michigan census. He lived on the family farm in Newton Township, Calhoun County, Michigan.

The household record in the 1880 census listed the family as Amanda M. Coller, Lafayette Coller and William Coller.

Lafayette continued to reside on the old homestead farm in Calhoun County, Michigan.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Alt. Birth, 1857. 1880 U.S. Census states Lafayette C. Coller was 23 in 1880. This would put his birth year at 1857. Different census listing the same indivudual's age at that time do not always calculate back to the same birth year. There may be a variation of a couple of years.

• Occupation: Farmer, 1880, Newton, Calhoun County, Michigan. ⁶¹

Lafayette married Mary Emma Rea on 16 Jun 1893. (Mary Emma Rea was born in New York.)