BAZEL AND MARTHA HARRISON Bazel and Martha Harrison are buried in the Harrison cemetery south of this marker, He led a party of 21 who were the first permanent settlers on Prairie Rhonde Kalamazoo county, where they arrived on November 5, 1828 One thousand people attended his funeral on September 1, 1874 because he was admired, esteemed, respected and loved by all who knew him. Martha Stillwell Harrison died on June 1, 1857. As his wife of 67 years she shared all of his early hardships and later ease, success and failures, joys and sorrows and was the mother of 17 children. KALAMAZOO COUNTY SESQUICENTENNIAL COMMITTEE NOVEMBER 6, 1828 - NOVEMBER 6, 1978
, Schoolcraft, United States