Ansel McCall LAMPORT

                   Purchased a tract of land adjoining his father's farm, and here he began housekeeping immediately after his marriage. In 1836 he moved to Laporte County, IN, and settled on Dove Prairie, subsequently locating at Kingsbury. In 1843, he movedwith his daughter to Mishawaka, St. Joseph, IN, where he worked for the St.Joseph Iron Company starting on 11 Apr 1844. In the spring of 1846, he purchased a farm, 6 miles SE of town. He lived there until 1865, during which time his 6 younger children were born there.
In 1865, he crossed the St. Joseph River, where he purchased a farm 3 miles E oftown. He sold it 2 years later and after a few months residence in the village of Mishawaka, purchased a small fruit farm at Burton Harbor, Berrien, MI. He moved his family there in 1868, and cultivated fruit until his death. He is buried in the village cemetery in Mishawaka. During the last 19 years of his life, he was a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was a just and faithful man, always highly honored by the people that knew him.