I’ve been told my Grandpa Allen’s father, John, was a dirt farmer in the Detroit area, and that he worked as a teamster. A teamster lower case, not a member of the Teamsters Union. John Allen carted ...

Merry Oaks is one of the last farm communities that once dotted the New Hope River Valley ... A Yates-family descendant remembered that her great-great-grandmother used to trundle into town each day ...