Frances Hewitt’s biography, Vermontville, Eaton County, Michigan Copyright © 1998 by USGenWeb. This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives. USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. ___________________________________________________________________ Frances E. Hewitt, now Mrs. R. W. Griswold, was born in Stonington, New London County, Conn., September 6, 1816, where she received her education and lived until nineteen years of age, when she was married to George S. Browning, of Griswold, Conn. They came to the wilds of Michigan in May, 1836, to build for themselves a home. They arrived in Bellevue the 6th of June, where they lived one year and a half, and then moved to Vermontville, where she has since remained. George S. Browning died July 26, 1874.