Ingham County MI Archives Photo Tombstone.....Ranney, Florence 
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Cemetery:           Mount Hope
Name:               Florence Ranney

Date Of Photograph: September 23, 2008
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The Ranney Family Monument is located in Section F.  The following is 
inscribed on the monument:

Dr. George E. Ranney served in the civil war of 1861-5 as private hospital 
steward, assistant surgeon, and surgeon of the 2nd Michigan Cavalry, as 
brigade surgeon, division surgeon, and surgeon of the Cavalry Corps of the 
military division of Mississippi.

Was awarded congressional medals of honor, bronze and gold, for "most 
distinguished gallantry;" held hostage in Libby Prison 1863.

He was one of the founders of the Michigan State Medical Society in 1866 and 
its Secretary twenty years; elected Honorary Member of same 1886 and President 
1891.  Was Honorary Member of other medical bodies; a member of The American 
Medical and British Medical Associations; Fellow of the British Gynecological 
Association; member Michigan State Board of Registration of Medicine; State 
Inspector of Communicable Diseases; President U. S. Pension Board for Lansing; 
Surgeon Lake Shore and Michigan Southern and Pere Marquette Railways, and 
Division Surgeon Grand Trunk Railway; author of many medical papers, one in 
1874, first showing bad water the prolific cause of typhoid fever.

"Rather would I discover the cause of one fact than to be king of all the 
Persians."  - Democritus

The following headstones are near the Ranney Monument:

Isabella Sparrow, Wife of Geo. E. Ranney, 1848 - 1907

Ralph S. Ranney, 1873 - 1893

Florence Ranney, 1881 - 1891

John S. Ranney, 1841 - 1901

Elizabeth Champlain Ranney, 1811 - 1902

Jane Ranney Morris, 1830 - 1903


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