Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Belding, Frances W. 1879
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Greenville Independent, 10 Apr 1879

At Otisco, Ionia county, Mich., March 7, 1879, Frances W. Belding, aged 48
years, 4 months and 10 days. 

The deceased was born in the town of Ashfield, Franklin county, Mass., October
27, 1830.  With his father’s family he emigrated to the township of Otisco,
Ionia Co., in 1840; and with other pioneers endured the hardships and privations
incident to a settlement in a new country.  In 1855 he started out in life for
himself by purchasing the farm where he resided at the time of his death.  In
June, 1860, he was married to Sarah P. Mason who died in 1861.  On the 8th of
April, 1862, he was married to Julia E. Day by whom he had five children, two
boys and three girls, all of whom are living and now mourn his loss.  He was an
influential and respected member of the Otisco Grange, and while his health
permitted he was regular in attendance at its meetings; and at a late meeting of
the order he was constituted an honorary member.  Among those who knew him best
his name needs no eulogy.  His reputation wherever he was known may be told in
one sentence: “He was an honest man in every sense of the word.”


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