Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Babcock, Ellen (Williams) 1934
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Sandy Heintzelman sheintz@iserv.net September 30, 2011, 11:48 am

Ionia Sentinel Standard, 24 Mar 1934

Mrs. Ellen Babcock, 87 years old, widow of Burton Babcock of Easton, died at her
home Saturday morning at 2:15.  Mrs. Babcock was the daughter of Albert and
Eliza Patterson Williams, Mr. Williams being a former attorney in Ionia and an
attorney-general of Michigan during the Civil war.  She was born in Otisco
township in December 1846.  She and Mrs. Emma Rich Lowe were the only two pupils
to be graduated in the class of 1870, just one year before the first
commencement exercises were held at the Ionia high school, therefore they were
entitled to be called the oldest members of the Ionia alumni association.  In
November, 1871, she was united in marriage to Burton Babcock, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Lucius Babcock, of Berlin township, two daughters being born to them, Mrs.
A.B. Sibley, of Ionia, and Miss Lucy Babcock at home.  Except for a short time
when they lived in Ionia and Muir, they have spent the remainder of their lives
on the farm near Bellamy creek in Easton.  Mrs. Babcock had been confined to her
bed since her husband’s death two years ago.  Surviving are two daughters, four
grandchildren, Burton, Annie Bell, Frederick, and Alexander Sibley, a nephew,
Judge Lucius Babcock, of El Reno, Okla., and a sister-in-law, Mrs. Anna B.
Morse, of Ionia.  Funeral services will be held at the residence in Easton at 2
o’clock Tuesday afternoon, with burial at Highland Park cemetery.


File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/b/babcock17059nob.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/

File size: 2.0 Kb