Clare County MI Archives Obituaries.....Saul, James Monroe February 1, 1911
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Clare Sentinel, Friday February 17, 1911, pg. 1
Biographical Sketch of Esteemed Resident of Grant Twp.



The Sentinel recently contained a brief mention of the death of James M. Saul.  
We have been furnished with the following biographical sketch prepared by a 
member of the family.



James Monroe Saul, eldest son of George and Esther Saul, was born at Melbern, 
Williams Co., Ohio, August 18, 1841, and departed this life at his farm home 
near Dover, Feb. 1.  He was second in the family of twelve children, seven 
brothers and five sisters, one brother and two sisters having preceded him to 
the higher life.  Three brothers, Edward of Dover, Leander of Pleasant Lake, 
Ind., and John of Melbern, Ohio, were present at the funeral and burial in the 
beautiful city of the dead in Cherry Grove, Clare. 



The remaining brothers and sisters are Mrs. Sarah Hoyer of Pleasant Lake, Ind., 
Jacob Saul of Bryan, Ohio, Mrs. Lydia Rittenhouse of Wauseon, Ohio, Mrs. Emma 
Pasch of Toledo, Ohio, and Richard Saul who is somewhere in the West.



On December 21, 1867, in Hillsdale Co., Michigan, he was united in marriage 
with Miss Mary Hoyer also of Williams Co., Ohio.  To this happy union were 
given three sons and two daughters, Frank and Mrs. Leam Hoover of Greenwood, 
Samuel and Mrs. Roy Hoover of Dover, and Garfield who resides on the home place.



Mr. Saul head his country’s call and responded having been enrolled as a 
corporal in Captain J. B. McDonald’s company, 8th Regiment of Independent New 
York State sharpshooters on August 30th, 1862, and was honorably discharged 
from service on June 20, 1865.  He participated in some of the most important 
battles of the war, and spent three weeks in the Wilderness with Gen. Grant.  
He was taken prisoner and spent six and a half months in Salisbury and Libby 
prisons, and became fully acquainted with the hardships and privations of war 
and more especially those of prison life.



Mr. Saul spent his boyhood days and the first seven years of his married life 
near the home of his parents in Ohio and came to Clare Co., in September 1874 
and settled on the farm which has since been his home and on which he so 
peacefully fell asleep.  Coming to this country while yet new and uncleared, he 
purchased a family home and later by hard work and good management has been 
enabled to provide his children each a home of their own.



His nature was that of kindliness, patience and love ever thoughtful of others’ 
comforts and pleasures, especially of those of his immediate family circle, and 
in his death the family suffer the loss of a kind husband and father.



He leaves to mourn their loss a sorrowing and devoted wife, five children, four 
grand children, five brothers, three sisters, nephews, nieces and other 
relatives and friends who will await a happy reunion in the beautiful hereafter.



Funeral services were conducted Feb. 4, 1911, at the late home of deceased, 
Rev. Quinton Walker of the M. E. church of Clare officiating.



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