Eaton County MI Archives Obituaries.....Murray, Mrs. James January 1918
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Lansing State Journal, Jan., 11, 1918
ONE OF EATON'S OLDEST PEIONEERS PASSES

EATON, Jan 11 - Mrs. James Murray,?, one of the oldest pioneers of Eaton 
County, died Tuesday evening at the home of her youngest child, Mrs. Fred 
Curtiss, in Charlotte.  Mrs. Murray was taken ill about a week ago with an 
acute attack of indigestion that soon developed into a serious illness and she 
passed away with her children about her bedside.  Mrs. Murray was a Michigan 
pioneer.  With her husband she came to Eaton County from Ashland County, Ohio 
about 60 years ago, settling in Eaton, where they continued to reside until 
about six or seven years ago when they moved to the county seat.  When the 
Civil War broke out, Mr. Murray went to the fron, leaving his young wife with 
three small children to care for, an experience that should give presentday 
young wives something real to worry about.  Mr. Murray died five years ago 
last November and Mrs. Murray continued to live alone until last summer when 
she was persuaded to make her home with her daughter, Mrs. Curtis.  She was 
the mother of eight children, of whom five survive:  Albert and Fred Murray, 
shoe merchants of Charlotte, Mrs. James Clay, Mrs. W.H. Cooley and Mrs. 
Curtiss, all of this vicinity.  In a ? ?, she was associated with the 
Congregational Church.  Funeral services will be held at the Curtiss home 
Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock.

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