Amanda Curtis’s obituary, Vermontvill, Eaton County, Michigan

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VERMONTVILLE SCRAPBOOK #1, Page 201,202
Newspaper source unknown, May 1, 1919
OBITUARY: MRS AMANDA ROBINSON CURTIS

One of Vermontville's life-long most highly respected and greatly beloved 
citizens, Mrs Amanda Robinson Curtis, died at her residence Monday of this week.

Mrs Curtis was born in Vermontville the 27th of March 1839, and therefore was 
aged eighty years, one month and one day at the time of her death. She was one of 
three children, including an older brother and a younger sister, born to Mr. 
Wells R. Martin and Mrs. Emily Robinson Martin. Her parents were among the early 
settlers of Vermontville, having migrated only a few months previous to her birth 
from Bennington, Vermont. From birth for many years she shared the privations and
hardships of that pioneer experience, becoming in the fullest sense identified 
with the community life. When eighteen years of age she married Mr. Horace L. 
Curtis and began wedded life on a farm across the river south of the village, 
which for one of her social inclinations seemed in those days a rather lonely 
place of residence. A few years later the home was removed to the village within 
the bounds of which she continued to live until the close of her life. As the 
fruit of her union with Mr. Curtis there was born one daughter, Miss Harriet M. 
Curtis, whose privilege it was tenderly to care for her mother during the closing 
years of her life and who survives her. She is also survived by her husband, and 
by her brother, Mr. H. M. J. Martin and by her brother's family.