Hal,

Now hear this! The old chief undoubtedly sat in his rocking chair and sipped his "Autumn Leaves" as he watched the boats on the Detroit River about 28 miles north of where Monroe, Michigan stands today along theRaisin River. Karel: Your progenitor, General Winchester, met his Waterloo in January of 1813 along the Raisin River south of where old Chief Blue Jacket four years earlier probably watched the sun rise over Grosse Ile. for the last time from his cabin located between Elm and Orange Streets on Biddle Avenue:  Carlyle: Now you can visit Wyandotte and erect a sign saying: "My progenitor rocked here long before "rocking" was in vogue. The monument on Biddle Ave. is worth the visit--wish we had one like it in the park at Fort Recovery.  Vaughn: You could go with Carlyle and help him survey the area west of old Blue Jacket's cabin where "Walk In The Water" and "the old chief" were originally laid to rest. Mortal remains of "Walk in the H2O" were moved to Canada and possibly those of your ancestor may also have been moved to Sandwich ( now Windsor )

Van

Dr. Buckeye,

The Detroit River flows south-southwest across the southeast corner of the Michigan Basin. Outcropping rocks are limestone, which is calcium carbonate and dolomite, which is magnesium carbonate. The geologic ages of these carbonates are Silurian and Devonian, about 360 million years old. The carbonates there were easily quarried and was used as flux in making steel. With sources of Precambrian aged iron ore on the shores of Lake Superior and Pennsylvanian aged coal along the southern shore of Lake Erie, it made economic sense to ship the coal and iron to the Detroit River, and begin making Bessemer steel while waiting for the automobile to be invented. The McGrath and Blue families populate that area on behalf of the Blue Jackets. Is this a great area or not? Oil was discovered in Pennsylvania by Col. Drake in 1859. In the 1880's town governments in northeast Ohio such as Findlay and Tiffin tried to get eastern money to come in to the former Indian nations area to drill for gas as the energy supply for industrialization in that area. Unfortunately, all they could find was oil! The resulting field stretched across northwestern Ohio and northeastern Indiana along what is geologically known as the Findaly Arch which separates the Michigan Basin from the Illinois Basin. This multi-hundred million barrel field was known as the Lima-Indiana or Lima-Peru oil field. I can whip out this stuff all day long without even blinking! Well, not much anyway.

Carlyle