G-4.1 Philipp Francis Adolph (1841-1931), the eldest son of Anna Gruner Adolph, was born in Bohemia and the first of the Adolphs to arrive in America in the 1850s. He and his brother Willard were able to clear his widowed Mother's land located west of Morrison Lake and purchased for them by her brothers Wenzel and Anton Gruner. Philipp married Clara Jane Fox in 1868 and built this new home for his bride. The little house, pictured in 1910, is thought to have been located just to the north of the present barn. The farm passed to his youngest son Seymour (1891-1986). In his younger years, Seymour had been engaged in construction of concrete bridges both locally and in Detroit.

G-4 Anna Gruner Adolph (1819-1891), fourth child of Franz von Gruner, married Philipp Adolph in 1839 and had six children. Her husband died of TB in 1854 and she was urged to join her brothers in America, however, she had TB herself and was unable to travel so she sent her eldest son, Philipp. She came with her other four surviving children in 1856. Her daughter Lena died in infancy, but her children, Philipp, Anna, Willard, Pauline and Augusta all lived to an old age. Other pages of this website will refer to Anna (Flandermeyer-Stroh), Willard Adolph, Pauline (Morrison) and Augusta (Morrison).

Philipp and Clara Jane Fox had five children, Anna (died in infancy), Lewis, Philip, Frank, LaNora and Seymour. These people will be found on other pages of this website. Seymour married Sarah Smith and lived on this farm all his life. They had no children. They developed Adolph Shores and Almary Drive Subdivisions off of River Road. Those street names will persist for many years to come. Seymour was a widower in his later years and died as a result of a tragic accident when he was mowing his yards and hit a post throwing him from the tractor and was run over by the rotary mower.

Anna Adolph's house in 1910.

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