Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Bachelder, Elizabeth (Henney) July 11, 1905
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Lake Odessa Wave - Friday July 21, 1905

Again we are called upon to bow the  head in sorrow to pay a farewell tribute to 
one of the most respected pioneers of this vicinity, one who has been among us 
for many years, and whose hands were never idle when called upon to their part 
converting a wilderness into a thirty farming community dotted with churches, 
school houses and homes.

Elizabeth, wife of Jno. Bachelder, succumbed to the will of the grim reaper 
Tuesday evening July 11, after an illness about one and one-half years during 
which not withstanding the kind assistance of friends and neighbors, she 
suffered mush, but affirm christian faith did much toward assisting her to bear 
the burden.

The funeral was held at the Thornapple churchThursday July 13th. Rev. J.G.Winey 
assisted by Rev. S.M. Smith and Rev. Geo. Clum officiating, where a large 
audience of friends assembled to pay a parting tribute of an old and much 
respected friend and neighbor.

The remains were  then taken to Lakeside Cemetery for burial.

Deceased was born in Ohio in 1835, and was united in marriage to John Bachelder 
in 1858, to which union were born seven children, five of whom with the grieving 
husband, survive her.

She with her husband came to Michigan in 1868, settling a farm on the Barry 
county line, which they cleared and brought into the high state of cultivation, 
and here they resided until recently when they moved to their home near 
Thornapple church.

Then united with the Progressive Brethren church in 1888 and remained a firm and 
devoted christian till the last.

She was a faithful wife, a genial neighbor, and a kind mother, this neighbor, 
feels in part the loss which the bereaved relatives have to bear, and they have 
the sympathy of all in this hour of sorrow.

After an illness of about a year and a half, Mrs.John Bachelder died 
Tuesday,July 11th. The bereaved family have the sympathy of their many friends 
here.

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Lakeside Cem.#6-723

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