Almeda Van Conant's obituary, Vernon Township, Clare County, Michigan

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Obituary from the Clare Sentinel May 10, 1937:

  MRS PHILLIP VAN CONANT DIES AT DAUGHTER'S HOME

Deceased Believe to be Oldest Resident of this Locality.

     Almeda Lyons was born May 13, 1843 at Prince Edward 
County, Canada, to Thomas & Cynitha Lyons. Four brothers 
and two sisters have preceded her in death.  One sister 
Mrs. Helen Pierson of Flint, survives.

     On Febrary 20 1868, she was wedded to Phillip Van 
Conant.  This was a happy union which continued for 68 
years.   They came to Michigan in September 1868 and 
settled on a farm in Macomb County. They moved to Dover,
Clare County in April 1878, where they have lived a 
contented and useful life until Mrs.Van Conants health 
failed in January 1934, at this time they went to the home 
of their daugher in Vernon, where they spent two more 
peaceful years together, and where Mr. Van Conant passed 
away, and she answered the final summons sixteen months 
later, May 8 1937.

     A son, Edward and a daughter Mrs. Hattie Dennis of 
Vernon, four grand-daughters, Mrs. Ellen Henderson of 
Vernon, Mrs. Grace Ackerman of Clare, Mrs. Ruth Miller of 
Farwell, and Mrs. Gertrude Marshall of Pontiac, eleven 
great-grand children, and three great-great-grandchildren 
will long cherish the memory of this splendid mother and 
grandmother.

     Back of this noble life was the fact that she had a 
profound faith in Gord and found great comfort in her 
church.

     Those from a distance attending the last rites were:  
Mrs. Helen Pierson, Mr & Mrs. Burleigh Pierson, Mr & Mrs. 
O.C. Anderson of Flint, Mrs. Sarah Defoe, Mrs Jay Sutton, 
Mrs. Gertrude Marshall and son Michael of Pontiac, Mr.
& Mrs. Grant Defoe and Frank Defoe of Detroit.

     The funeral was held from the Methodist Church May 10, 
with Rev. George Stanford officiating and the remains 
interred in Cherry Grove Cemetery.