Nora Belle (Downing) Squires was born October 16, 1887 in Ridgeway Township, Lenawee County, Michigan She was the daughter of Charles James and Martha (Carmen) Downing.

She married Ransom Earl Squires. Sr. on November 26, 1908 and they had four children:

1. Alice Estelle (Squires) Haystead

2. Leon Jerome Squires

3. Elsie Genevieve (Squires) Porter

4. Ransom Earl "Sock" Squires, Jr.

Nora passed away on February 26, 1973 in Milan, Monroe County, Michigan. She is buried in Ridgeway Cemetery, Ridgeway Township.

"Nora Belle...graduated in 1905, in the first class which graduated from Britton High School. The class is pictured on the previous page. She met Ransom Squires at a card party, and they were married November 26, 1908.

Nora and Ransom started housekeeping on the old Dan McFall place on Cone Road, and in 1915 they bought the Fred Greener farm on the east side of North County Line, just south of the Pennington Road intersection. It was here On their farm that they raised their four children: Alice Estelle, Leon Jerome, Elsie Genevieve and Ransom Earl, Jr. Ransom died July 16, 1961, and Nora passed away on February 26, 1973."