When did your family arrive in Michigan?
Have to go get the file folders but my first and middle real names were after the great great grandfather who was born here and volunteered in the Civil War and along the Michigan Volunteers was in several of the bloodiest battles including Bull Run (Manassas) and Gettysburg. He made it back alive and is buried in Port Austin, Michigan with a G.A.R. marker (Grand Army of the Republic).
When Lincoln was told one of the Michigan units had just arrived he said “Thank God for Michigan!”