Julia Ann Frank Demaray, like her twin, was born in Ontario, Canada in 1840. At the age of 19, in 1859, she married Calvin Demaray. By the 1870 U.S. federal census, the family had moved to Woodland, Barry County, Michigan and had grown to include six children. Their family farm was located just two miles from Lake Odessa. A Michigan Centennial Farm home and barn still stand across the street from the homestead. Known as the Rush Farm, it was the home of Julia’s daughter Hannah Jane Demaray Rush. Hannah Jane Rush was a proud NSDAR member. Another child of our Daughter, was John Demaray, whose son died in World War 1 – the Lake Odessa American Legion was named in his honor as the LaVerne Demaray American Legion Post.

Real Daughter Julia and her husband would eventually have 14 children of whom only 8 survived beyond the turn of the century. Like her sister, she applied for membership in the DAR in 1910 and was heavily involved in the Sophie de Marsac Campau Chapter for several years. She died of heart disease on the 5th of June, 1912 aged 71 (although her obituary states she was 80) and was buried at the Lake Side Cemetery, one row from the plot that would hold her sister 8 years later. In June of 1915 the Sophie de Marsac Campau Chapter placed a Real Daughter marker on Mrs. Demaray’s headstone.