Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Bignell, Frances Burns "Frank" January 1, 1914
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Daily Sentinel - Thursday, Jan. 8, 1914

                         FRANCES BURNS BIGNELL
          Well Known Citizen Dead - Former Smyrna Foundry Man.

After suffering great pain from cancer of the stomach for five weeks Francis B. 
Bignell passed from the earthly life January 1, 1914 aged 63 years at his farm 
home near Palo.

Francis Burns Bignell was born in Allegan December 7, 1859. He was a son of 
Rev. and Mrs. George Bignell and the greater part of his life had been passed 
in Ionia county. Left fatherless at an early age he knew how to toil hard for 
his home people long before he reached manhood. Before the death of his father, 
who passed away the last day of December 1855, he with his parents and brothers 
moved to Ionia where he continued to reside until 1871 when he moved to Smyrna. 
There he engaged in the foundry business in partnership with the late J.A. Sage 
and continued in that occupation until 1890 when he with his family moved to 
his farm home near Palo where he passed the remainder of his life. He was a 
member of the Palo school board several years. a useful man in the community 
where he lived and was highly esteemed and respected by all who knew him.

Besides his widow, he leaves four sons, Louis, who resides in South Dakota, 
Claude, Ellis and Howard and a daughter-in-law and two brothers, Charles W. and 
George Olin Bignell of Belding, to mourn the loss of a loved one, and a large 
circle of friends will miss one who was ever ready and willing to give aid and 
sympathy to those in need.

Funeral services conducted by Rev. L.B. Buffum were held at the Palo Baptist 
church at 10 o'clock in the forenoon Monday, January 5, and the interment was 
in the Smyrna cemetery by the side of the wife of his young manhood who passed 
away January 3, 1873.

Additional Comments:
Funeral: Monday 5 January 1914
Smyrna cemetery #169

Sat. Jan. 2, 1914
The funeral for Francis Burns Bigness, who died at Palo, will be attended from 
the Palo Baptist church at 10 a.m., Monday, Rev. Mr. Buffum officiating. 
Interment in the cemetery at Smyrna. 

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