Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Bamborough, William  1904
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The Ionia Daily Standard, Friday, January 15, 1904

It appears that the body of Wm. Bamborough was first discovered by Lee 
Hargrave, who drives in from the country to attend the Muir school, and keeps 
his horse in the Bamborough barn.  The Tribune says: “Immediately after school 
he went to the barn after his cutter, and opening the wide doors of the barn 
he had drawn the cutter nearly outside before an upward glance revealed the 
swinging body of Mr. Bamborough right where the cutter must have brushed its 
clothing in being drawn out.  Stricken almost speechless with fear he in some 
way managed to finish hitching up the horse, and without a word to several 
whom he passed on the street he drove at breakneck speed six miles home.”

A telephone message from the Hargrave home reached Muir just about the time 
that Bamborough’s own son made the discovery.  Death had taken place two or 
three hours before, so that the failure of the Hargrave lad to cut down the 
body or notify Muir people made no real difference.

Mr. Bamborough sold his farm to $6,500 and the personal property for $3,000, 
and must have had $11,000 or $12,000, with no debts.  He carried $2,000 
insurance in Modern Woodmen and $1,000 in Gleaners.


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