- Cornelius was born about 1798 in New Jersey or New York. He was christened in Jew Jersey. His middle name was Augustus and his grandson, Nathan, also had Augustus (or Augusta) for a middle name.
Cornelius had a land transaction of 160 acres at Bronson, Branch County, Michigan on November, 1, 1826. It was a cash sale.
He married Mary Gray Comstock, reportedly in New York, in 1827. Their children were born in Michigan, so I wonder if the marriage really took place in New York, as he lived in Michigan before and after that.
The 1850 census shows Cornelius to be a farmer in Adrian, Lenawee County, Michigan with #3,500 the value of the real estate he owned.
- STOUT FAMILY ORIGINS:
Stout (English) means a bold, strong, valient, proud man. Gertrude Stout Phillips thought the Stouts were Scotch and english. Art Stout said he had understood that his dad, Nathan Augustus Stout, was at least partly Scotch and possibly Welch. When Art was in Englandc, he met an English barrister (lawyer) named Earnjest Frank Stout, who said he was Welsh. He said that all the Stouts in England came there by way of the Orkney and Shetland Islands following the invation by the Normans. He said that even today, those two island groups have a large percentage of people named Stout and that most of the Stouts who came to England settled in Whales.
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