Samuel Malcom did quite well for himself and his
family living in Concord, Michigan. He seems to have been a farmer, a shoemaker, a business man and a land
speculator. He owned many different properties in Concord Township and in
the Pulaski Township just south of Concord. He appears to have bought land
at low prices and sold high. My grandfather George William "Billy" Malcom
(Samuel's great nephew), seems to have followed this same course of "doing
business" and became wealthy doing it.
The modest home below on the left is probably the
longtime home of Samuel Malcom and his family in Concord. It is well kept
and looks as if it has had some modern improvements such as the small foyer
added at the front door and new siding. This home sits next to the road going
south out of Concord which is sometime referred to as Jonesville Road and in
town the road is is named Main Street. The house is located just north of
the Maple Grove Cemetery, a piece of land Samuel purchased in 1851 and sold in
February 1900 to Lee Rogers, his grandson by his daughter Harriet. In
fact, in 1865, Samuel sold two acres of this parcel of land to the Concord Board
of Health for an expansion of the cemetery.
Below is the home Samuel Malcom purchased in
1885 and then sells to his son Byron D. Malcom in February of 1900. It
looks as if Samuel now divests himself of all his properties at this time
because he dies on November 6, 1900. This is a beautiful idyllic home and
today the owners operate a sheep farm.▼
Concord today is a quiet, peaceful village, one that allows a traveler to
imagine life as it was more than a century ago.
Below, on the left, is the gravestone of Samuel Malcom. His stone is
just one of the seven graves in the Malcom cemetery plot in Maple Grove
Cemetery.
In the photo below you see the Malcom cemetery plot at Maple
Grove Cemetery in Concord. The plot is near the front gate and in the
older part of the cemetery. The Malcom monument is quite tall and the
individual grave markers are identical for all seven Malcoms buried there.
The are: Charles and Lucy, Samuel's parents; Juditha Kinney Malcom, Samuel's
first wife; Harriet Drake Malcom, his second wife; Byron "Barney" and David D.
Malcom (died at age 2), both his sons by Harriet. Donna Meszaros told me
that Samuel's grandson, Judge George Arthur Malcom, later "remodeled " the
entire plot and gravestones, erecting the monument and installing stones that
were identical in shape and size. George Arthur Malcom always used the
name "Malcolm" with the extra
L when using his name.
▼This next photo shows the Maple Grove
Cemetery looking through the front gate. You will see me sitting on the
lower ledge of the Malcolm Monument . You can see it is very large and
really dominates that portion of this beautifully kept cemetery.
The July morning was just the beginning of a glorious summer day. My husband
Greg and I found many distant relatives buried here, the Drakes, Penoyars and
other Malcoms.
▼The last picture on this page shows just a portion of an antique
map of Concord Township, Michigan and the Town of Concord. The
properties in yellow are ones owned at one time by Samuel Malcom and/or his
wife Harriet Drake Malcom's family. Samuel owned a lot more properties
in the area that do not show on this particular map. The
red circles
designate the home locations on the lots. The circle in the right center of
the map shows the location of the first home in the first photo on the left
side of this page above. Just below Samuel's property you will find
the location of the Maple Grove Cemetery. The second red circle in
section 33 designates the location of the large home later owned by Samuel
Malcom (also shown above). If you look in Sections 29 and 33, you will
find large properties belonging to a George V.(or G.V.) Kinney. This
person may have been related to Samuel's first wife, Juditha Kinney Malcom.
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