Hillsdale County MI Archives Obituaries.....Betts, Mary Jane February 6, 1898
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Reading Hustler
OBITUARY:  (The Reading Hustler)  Mary Jane Hopkinson was born at Palmyra, Wayne
Co., New York, Jan. 18, 1814, and died Feb. 6, 1898, aged 84 years, 19 days. 
She was married to Seth F. Betts Nov. 16, 1838, and united with the M.E. church
in 1843 at Palmyra.  She leaves and aged husband and five children in great
sorrow, but their consolation is that the beautiful life here is continued in
the world beyond.  Tow children have gone before, and infant son, June 8, 1844,
and a beloved daughter, Mrs. B.B. Odell, of Baldwinsville, N.Y., June 22, 1890.
 Mrs. Heman Weston, of Cambria, Mich., Sherman Betts, of Edgewood, Gratiot
county, Mich., Mrs. J.W. Niblack, of Reading, Mich., Mrs. Charles Gilbert, of
Chicago, Ill., and Mrs. Frank P. Blankenberg, of Syracuse, N.Y. remain.  The
many friends who will mourn her loss show the love they bore her.  Many times in
her last days, she spoke of them in loving kindness, recalling the pleasant
years spent among them.  They came to Michigan, March 1877, since then their
home has been at Cambria village, loved and honored by all.  The last three
weeks of her life was spent at her daughter's , Mrs. J.W. Niblack's, Reading,
where whe was watched with tender and loving care.  Husband and children stood
by her as she neared the river and watched her cross to the rest that is
promised to the faithful.

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