In the town of Clinton MI where I live and my Halladay relatives and Richmond relatives have all died out... the Hoyt name was a very imposing wealthy name, with large houses and the "funeral parlour home" just across the street / driveway from the now burnt down Atlas Mill, 150 yrs in the same family, longest of any business in MIch. Charlie Steffens sold it out of family lines and he would know a lot if only he knew there were people out there searching...He lives on a small farm between Clinton and Manchester. In my day there was a Hugh Hoyt I remember my parents talking about, and a Hoyt funeral home up on Jackson St, I believe I remember hearing our best historian Sharon Scott talk about. I believe it was a Hoyt funeral home director/owner who perhaps hanged himself in his own funeral home, just snapped and couldn't take it anymore and no one saw it coming as we know happens today with soldiers and now airplane pilots and stewardi. As for which cemetery and why little deceased children with measles in 1853 Manchester? Had to find a place somewhere to buy them as German immigrants, did the best you could speaking thick German here with (my greatgrandfather ) maybe olf Doc Ohlinger coming out in his horse and buggy to your house (if you were lucky and he would get there in time e.g. for a difficult childbirth)... Manchester still is a very very German historical quiet off the beaten path lovely town with lots of unresearched cemeteries and also gravestones out in people's yards even... if they buried Grandpa's deceased niece out in the back field because a church and cemetery had not yet been established...but as Ron Kuhl would say...(and he knows absolutely everyone around, but he is not computer literate, just a single old sheep farmer since his knees gave out from too much sheep shearing (where the gossip really spreads, out there in the sheep shearing barns)...and you learn who had a baby by who and who lives with whome why when and where and who divorced wohom in modern day and why and where these kids are and those kids have gone......
And so as peole became more wealthy and houses to be very socially impressive so as to bring over the waiting high-style proper European wife and children either already on the ground or desperately hoped for (and also badly needed to farm these huge hard-working German's farms around Manchester, Saline, Bridgewater Hamlet, down to the more Irish, English and Scottish Clinton with the huge old Clinton Woolen Mill....now also mostly burned down despite being a sturdy old wood=beamed brick structure ever so historical bu also documented at Clinton Twp Public Library c/o Grace Strauss librarian, 100 Brown St Clinton MI 49236 or Sharon Scott, E US 12 Clinton MI 49236 home ph 517-456 6198 or maybe Shirley and Norm Campbell can help you, up at N end of town on N Jackson st which turns into Clinton Manchester RD northward toward Austin Rd (of URR fame well documented elsewhere).....which if you turn west leads into the lovely town of Manchester with its German (Mrs Weidmeyer) bakery... and everyone knows everyone and anyone can tell you how to find this or that family or deceased person or gravesite .