Tag: DeWitt

6 people remain hospitalized after hit-and-run crash that killed 2 near DeWitt

WATERTOWN TWP. — Six family members who were struck by a suspected drunken driver near Wacousta Saturday evening remain hospitalized, one in critical condition, the Clinton County Sheriff’s Office said late Sunday. In addition to two people who died at the scene of the hit-and-run crash at about 6:30 p.m. on South Wacousta Road, near Corrison […]

Marvin DeWitt and life on the farm

Steve VanderVeen Marvin DeWitt became the Henry Ford of the turkey industry. Like Ford, he experienced poverty. Marvin’s great-grandfather, Gerrit S. DeWitt, was a farmhand in the Netherlands. In 1848, when he was 17 years old, he immigrated to West Michigan, where he spent his first night under a shelter of boards he had assembled […]