Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Arnold, G. Wesley 1888
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The Ionia [Weekly] Standard
Friday, March 16, 1888 
OBITUARY.

G. Wesley Arnold, better known as "Wet" Arnold, died at his home south of Grand
river on Sunday morning after a brief illness, of typhoid fever. He was born in
Fairfield, Herkimer Co., N. Y., March 11, 1832, and was therefore a little more
than 56 years of age. He was one of a family of seven children, and his father
was Oliver Arnold, who left New York state with the Dexter colony in April 1833
arriving here in June of that year. Oliver Arnold was a blacksmith and settled
south of Grand river, where he lived until the time of his death, and Wesley
succeeded to the old homestead, in Ionia Township where he has lived his entire
life it may be truly said, as he was but a little more than one year old when
his parents came here. In fact Oliver Arnold was the first man who settled in
the township of Berlin, though it is claimed that John E. Morrison made the
first location of land at the United States land office. For half a century,
from his early boyhood, "Wet" Arnold has been a familiar figure in Ionia. 

Everybody knew him. There are not many men in or about Ionia whose death would
be more generally regretted. Plain, unpretentious, modest, he was contented to
pursue the even tenor of his way, and allowed no foolish ambition for place or
for riches to interfere with the tranquil current of his life. Industrious,
frugal, honest, contentment was a marked characteristic. He was endowed by
nature with a fine mind, and it was a treat to talk with him and hear his
quaint, sensible views on those subjects which he saw fit to discuss. There was
a vein of originality about him that gave to his conversation an unique charm.
He was a man of strong personality; mentally his individuality was marked; and
he was a man of superb physique; indeed, though he was probably not aware of it
himself, he might have posed for a statue of Hercules. All in all, he was one of
the men, it is worth while living merely to have known; and who, now that he is
gone, will be sadly missed.

His remains were taken to the Balcom cemetery on Tuesday, and consigned to the
grave by the odd-fellows of Ionia.



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