Alonzo G. Titsworth, son of Elias and Nancy Titsworth, was born in Michigan, June 14, 1861. Little is known about his early life, but it is presumed he grew up in Ridgeway Township, except for a short time in Seneca Township. He worked by the month as a farm hand for the local fanners. After his parents separated, he continued to live with his mother, and bought a twenty acre parcel on the County Line from her on October 29, 1878. In 1886 he married Margaret Jane Stocker, daughter of Aaron Sylvester and Elizabeth (Gilbert) Stocker. Margaret was born December 19, 1871.

In 1887, Lon sold his 20 acres to his half brother, Charles James Downing, and he moved into Britton. He operated a grocery store in the Beasley Block on the south side of M50. On a Friday, September 20, 1888, along with several other stores, his grocery was destroyed by fire.

After his store burned, his outlook was very gloomy, there not being that many opportunities for employment. His uncle, William Getty, suggested he come north to Antrim County, where the logging "business was really booming. So he and his family gathered their few belongings and left for the north woods.

At this time, Lon and Maggie had one son, Charles James, named after his uncle, Charles James Downing. He was born in 1887. A daughter, Adeline Mathilda, was born October 25, 1888. Their second daughter, Sylvia Bell, was born in Antrim County, October 16, 1893.

Lon worked in the lumber camps, and on November 2, 1897, at the age of 36 years, 4 months, and 19 days, he died as a result of an accident in a shingle mill. He was buried in the Bay View Cemetery at Eastport, in Torch Lake Township, Antrim County.

Young Charles, as soon as he was big enough, followed in his father's footsteps, working in the logging industry to support his mother and two sisters. At the age of sixteen he contracted the dread disease, typhoid fever, and died on September 7, 1903, in Torch Lake Township.

Maggie remarried a man by the name of Oliver Henry Titsworth. He was born near Adrian, Michigan, on June 30, 1873, to William H. and Fannie E. (Carmer) Titsworth. It is believed that he was Lon's cousin. Maggie and Oliver continued to live in Northern Michigan. They had five children: John, Lawrence, Bernice, Fannie and Marguerita.

Adeline Matilda married James Madison Copeland, III, and they had one sone, James Madison, IV, born May 3, 1911. Sylvia Bell married Fred Loyal Stanley and their children were:

• Ardith who died when she was three

• Loyal born January 1911

• Charles Keith born November 6, 1913

• Merna May born May 5, 1917

• Bethel Marie born December 23, 1920

• Margaret Adeline born March 10, 1924

• Wilma Laura born January 6,1927

Margaret Jane Stocker Titsworth died in Flint on October 8, 1941, at the age of 69.