The Lasley Family of Old Mackinac
Book by Corey C. Lasley
First Edition planned for publication (via lulu.com) in late 2010 - early 2011 which will be available via lasleybook.com

This book covers the generations of Samuel C. Lasley, a post-revolutionary war American soldier, turned business man, who first arrived at Mackinac Island (Michilimackinac) Michigan in 1796 during his military tour, and then came back with is wife and children to take up permanent residence several years prior to the war of 1812. This Samuel C. Lasley is a paternal patriarch of possibly hundreds of people who are alive today. 

Several of Samuel C. Lasley's descendants, who have kept the Lasley name, have remained in the Mackinac area and surrounding vicinities for the next couple centuries, with a few branches remaining in the area to this day. Others migrated west in the mid 1800's, to places such as Kansas and and in the early 1900's as far west as Oregon and as far south as Florida. Many of the earliest generations of Michigan Lasleys were notable figures in business and politics within their communities, who helped in some degree or another, to shape the history of their respective regions.

A key focus of this work concerns the intermarriages into the Odawa and Chippewa tribes of Northern Michigan, the Menominee tribe of the Green Bay, Wisconsin, the Potawatomie tribe of Indiana who were forced into Kansas, and possibly others (including yet unconfirmed links into the Cherokee of the west); Thus a rich Native American heritage was established early in virtually every known Lasley branch. Unfortunately however, this heritage has become forgotten among many modern day descendants.

This work is an effort to bring to life in historical context, the forgotten memory of our forefathers and distant relations who came before us. This work covers many years of rigorous research which began in 2001, and currently includes the following chapters :

(1) Samuel C. Lasley : 1775 - 1846
    (2) Samuel Lasley Jr. : 1800 - 1839
        (3) Edward Lasley : 1822 - 1896
            (4) Louis Lasley : 1850 - 1919
                (5) Henry Louis Lasley : 1875 - 1944
                    (6) Leo Lasley : 1900 - 1994
                    (6) Lloyd Lasley : 1902 - 1985 *
                    (6) Melvina Rose (Lasley) Page : 1905 - 1994
                    (6) Margaret(Lasley) Compton : 1908 - 1962 *
                    (6) Robert Lasley : 1911 - 1979 *
                    (6) George Henry Lasley : 1913 - 1996
                        (7) James George Lasley
                        (7) Theodore Dean Lasley
                        (7) Andrew Lasley
                        (7) William John Lasley (my father)
                        (7) Robert Lasley
                        (7) Deborah (Lasley) Root
                    (6) Olive (Lasley) Luck : 1915 - 2009
                (5) John Paul Lasley : 1892 - 1962
                    (6) Milo Lasley : 1940 - 2007 * 
            (4) Samuel Lasley : 1863 - 1920
                (5) Edward Norman Lasley : 1885 - 1973 *
                (5) Samuel Lasley Jr. : 1891 - 1919 * 
                    (6) Roland Lasley/Leslie
    (2) William Lasley : (circa) 1800 - 1865
        (3) (Samuel) Henry Lasley : 1835 - 1921
    (2) George O. Lasley : 1804 - 1863
    (2) John D. Lasley : 1805 - 1872
    (2) James Lasley : 1816 - 1893
        (3) Oliver John Lasley : 1842 - 1914
        (3) Harriet (Lasley) Bourisaw : 1852-55 - 1923

* = Currently, not enough information about this individual and his/her descendants is known to warrant a separate chapter. If further information is not gathered before the research cutoff date, what little is known about this person and his/her family will be summarized in the chapter of his/her father.

Included are mini-ancestral summaries of the the Lasley's spouses (when known). Also, includes mini-biographical sketches of famous and legendary persons who may have personally knew, dealt with, or were actually related to the Lasley's in this work; this includes but is not limited to: General Anthony Wayne (Post Revolutionary War, for which Wayne County Michigan was named), John Jacob Astor (American Fur Trade), Henry Schoolcraft, Ashwaubomay (Legendary Odawa for which Ashwaubenon Wisconsin was named), Chief Menominee (of the infamous "Trail of Death"), John Ball (personality of Muskegon/Grand Rapids area), Reverend Wycamp (Legendary personality of Cross Village), Chief Petoskey, and more...


Get Included! If you are a descendant of Samuel C. Lasley and would like to be included in this book, please download the PDF Questionnaire, and send it back to me (where to send the questionnaire is included on the last page of the document).
 

NOTE: Currently the work only includes extensive biographical chapters on those who are deceased, as well as those still living who granted me permission to include their names/information. Anyone who is still living, who has not granted me explicit permission to include their names and/or biographical sketches, are omitted. All chapters include the title person's descendants, if known, where not enough information was obtained about any specific descendant to warrant a separate chapter.

Research Cutoff Date for First Edition has been extended to October 1st, 2010

If you feel that you have any information to contribute to this work before this date, great or small, please contact me!