Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Allured, George H. 1915
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The Ionia Standard, Friday, October 29, 1915


George H. Allured, one of Ionia’s pioneer residents and most prominent 
citizens died very suddenly this noon, shortly after 12:00 o’clock.  He had 
been ill only since Tuesday evening, when he was taken with a cold, and that 
with the rheumatism with which he had been suffering lately, confined him to 
his bed.  Today at noon, however, he was able to eat, and asked for more of 
some broth which his daughter, Mrs. Grace L. Cressy, had given him.  
Immediately afterward, as she raised his head he said, “Oh, I feel so bad,” 
and closed his eyes in rest as she laid his head back on the pillow.

Mr. Allured was born in Whittlessey, Cambridgeshire, England, June 5, 1840, 
being a son of William and Sarah Allured.  The father was  tailor and followed 
the trade in his own country until 1860, when he emigrated to America.  The 
mother died the year of the removal, and the father passed away in 1864 in 
Kent county.  The parental family was a large one, numbering fourteen sons and 
daughters, and George H. was next to the youngest. Only one sister, Mrs. Mary 
Keech of England, is now living.

He attended school until he was 14 years old and then became an apprentice at 
the trade of cabinet-making.  Not liking the prospects before him, he embarked 
on the ship “Cultivator,” of the White Star Line, and sailed across the ocean 
in 1857.  At once after landing he came to Michigan and for a year and a half 
was located in Greenville, where he sold the first lot of ready-made coffins 
put upon the market there.  He walked from that place to Ionia, and found 
employment with Southwick Merritt, who afterward became his brother-in-law.  
When Mr. Merrit died Mr. Allured took charge of the business as assignee.  
Later his son, Sylvester Allured, went into business with him, when it was 
known as Allured & Son, and still later he conducted the business alone until 
his retirement nine years ago.

In 1862 he married Miss Emeline N. Nichols, who died in 1906, at the time when 
he left business.  There are four children: William H., now in Los Angeles, 
Edith, now Mrs. John C. Beattie, Sylvester of Shenandoah, Iowa, and Grace, now 
Mrs. Cressy, who has made her home with him for many years.

Mr. Allured has been a helpful member of the Baptist church here ever since he 
came to the city, 56 years ago.  He was also a member of the Masonic Lodge, 
the Odd Fellows, Elks and others, and has been on the library board ever since 
retiring from active business.  He was vice president of the board at the time 
of his death.  Besides his four children, Mr. Allured leaves 21 grand-children 
and 4 great-grandchildren.

Funeral arrangements are postponed until word can be received from the sons, 
who have been notified of his death.  

A peculiar circumstance attending Mr. Allured’s death was the arrival in the 
city a few minutes before of T. J. Bandfield, whose business Mr. Allured had 
undertaken to conduct during the time Mr. and Mrs. Bandfield were in 
California.  Mr. Bandfield arrived on the noon train, which was a little late, 
and was at the house just after Mr. Allured died.  The same train which 
brought Mr. Bandfield in, after an absence of a month, took Dr. Marsh, the 
attending physician, out of the city.


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