The name listed as Jas Corrington was a transcription error. " Jos." was the correct reading of the first name, on the census in the 1860 Reading, Hillsdale Co., MI. Joseph Corrington married Mrs. Elana / Elany THOMAS, about 1857, in or near Hillsdale County, Michigan. Joseph Corrington died between 1873 and 1880. No marriage or death record has been found for him, in Michigan.

A land transaction, in 1863, Reading, Hillsdale Co., MI, between his wife, Elany Corrington, and her children by her first marriage, gives his name as Joseph Corrington (and also spelled Carrington on the same document). A platmap for the area shows J. Corington, in 1872, in Reading, MI. His wife's death record, 1886, in Newaygo County, MI, gives her name as Ellana Corenton.