Christina Jordan-Barnum's Obituary, Woodland, Barry County, Michigan

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[Obit. From Bull Scrapbook, Hastings Public Library, Hastings, Mi]
WOODLAND PIONEER GOES TO HER REWARD
CHRISTINA JORDAN BARNUM
OLDEST PIONEER RESIDENT OF WOODLAND
Christina Jordan, the oldest of seven children of Alonzo and Charity
Jordan, was born in Livingston county, Michigan on April 22, 1837.  When
about one and one-half years old she came with the family to Woodland
where her brother, Jesse, was born, the first white child of the
township.

She was married to Albert Barnum on February 5th, 1861 and was left a
widow twenty-six years ago the fifteenth of last March.

When advancing years made it no longer possible to keep up her own home
she lived at first with her niece, Mrs. Mary France, daughter of John
Hynes, and her sister, Elizabeth.  Later she lived with her brother,
George, and for the last five years with her nephew, Elmer Hynes, who
with his wife, has done everything possible to smooth the way for a
lovely old woman, who had outlived nearly all her family and who have
done the deeds of the Samaritan, as few could have served a mother of
their own.

In this home she departed this life quietly and painlessly on Thursday
last, September 6, 1928, at the ripe old age of 91 years, 4 months and
14 days.

With this passing, no person is left living, who has seen Woodland
develop from a wilderness to an old settled country, the timber give
place to cultivated fields, the deer and the bear to horses and cattle,
and its Indians to the white man.

This long life began the year that Michigan was admitted as a State, and
Victoria became Queen of England.  During this human span more things of
real consequence have happened than during thousand years before, save
only the time that witnessed the coming of the Saviour.  With the
passing of such as she, and almost none are left, we close the door upon
an age that is past, an heroic age of pioneers, who labored that we may
live.

Funeral service was conducted at the home on Saturday at 2 o'clock P.M.,
Rev. John Smith, officiating.  Interment in the Woodland cemetery, which
was largely attended by her many relatives and friends.




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