Huron County MI Archives Obituaries.....McEachin, John P. September 25, 1949
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John P McEachin
Ubly, Sept 26 – John P McEachin, 86, who was a blacksmith by occupation and a 
violin maker as a hobby, died Sun night in Hubbard Memorial hospital after a 
brief illness. Mr McEachin suffered a stroke Fri night and was taken to the 
hospital. He operated a blacksmith shop in Ubly for a help century. He often 
remarked that he made everything from horseshoes to wagon wheels and many of his 
own tools. He was still able to work in a blacksmith shop until his fatal 
illness. He made several violins, cutting and curing the wood himself and 
carving it by hand. His first violin was made in a lumber camp in Gladwin county 
for an Independence Day dance in 1900. 

Born July 16, 1863, near Park Hill Ont, he came to the thumb in 1878 with his 
parents who settled near Greenleaf. He plowed firebreaks with a team of oxen to 
prevent the great forest fire of 1881 from reaching their farm. He and Miss 
Catherine Johnson were married in 1900. She died in 1942. Mr McEachin is 
survived by 3 sons, Bernard, John and Leo McEachin, all of Detroit; two 
daughters, Mrs Arthur B Moat, Buffalo, NY and Miss Jessie McEachin, Clarkston, 
MI; five grandchildren and a great grandchild. The remains are in the Edward 
Zinger & Son funeral home where Rosary devotions will be conducted at 9 p.m. 
Tues. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Wed in St John the Evangelist 
Cath ch Rev Jerome V McEachin, Lansing, a nephew, and Rev Stanley A Kilar, 
pastor, will officiate. Burial will be in Acacia Park cemetery in Detroit.


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