Almeron Weller Whitehead was a son of Ward and Betsey (Weller) Whitehead(*), both of Orange county, NY.
Almeron only just began to know his father; when Al was 3½ yrs old, his father Ward drowned in the Hudson river while on a fishing foray, the boat crossing across from Kingston to Newburgh in May of 1812.

"Mr. Whitehead was born at Newburgh, New York. In his earlier years in Westchester County, New York he engaged in clerking, but after coming to Oakland County in about 1838 he engaged in farming. He settled on section 33, where he purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land on the south shore of Elizabeth Lake, where a small frame house had been erected on the place by Henry Hunt as early as 1835.
He was a man of prominence and reliability, and was elected several years as supervisor of Waterford township and as Oakland county superintendent of the poor.
He married on Dec. 25th, 1833, Ann Mais, who was born in New York City, of Welsh and English stock, a daughter of a Baptist clergyman who lost his life nursing cholera patients in New York."

The Whiteheads had 9 children, 6 who survived into later adulthood, namely:
Mary, who died aged 16 years;
Emma, who married Levi Bacon, Jr.;
Richard H., who enlisted in Company A, 5th Reg., Michigan Vol. Cav., on August 16, 1862, at Clarkston, Michigan, for three years, was made 1st sergeant in May, 1864 and was killed while in action at Haw's Shop, Hanover County, Virginia, May 28, 1864;
Jane Mais ("Jennie"), who married Mortimer A. Leggett;
Alvin H., who married Julia C. Leggett;
Isabel, who married John Allen Bigelow, of Birmingham, Oakland County;
Anna May (died young), who was the wife of Hugh J. Hunt;
Dr. Charles M., who was killed in a railway accident; and
Almeron H., who married Emma S. Bodine and became founder & editor of the "Birmingham Eccentric" newspaper.

(Almeron's younger sister Elizabeth (Mrs. Stephen Congar) came with her husband in 1859 and settled on the lake's eastern shore, where they farmed until their decease in the 1890's)

Mr. and Mrs. Whitehead were consistent members of the Protestant Episcopal Church.

The "Detroit Free Press" on 20 Oct 1883,
said:

"Almeron Whitehead, Sr., an old and much respected citizen of Oakland County, died suddenly on Tuesday morning last at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. J. Allen Bigelow, of Birmingham, aged 75 years."

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(As Asst. Marshal/enumerator for the 1870 US Census in Waterford, the entire census is in his hand for that area)
(*) Recent research c.2020 indicates she may more probably have been Elizabeth Tice/Teise...