Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Bird, Samuel 1947 ************************************************ 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 December 3, 2010, 12:05 am Ionia Sentinel, 14 Jan 1947 Samuel Bird, 76, dairy farmer in Belding, died at his home on East M-44 at 1:30 a.m. Tuesday morning. Mr. Bird was a native of Cork county, Ireland. He and Mrs. Bird came to the United States in 1909 and moved to Belding in 1929 from a farm at Lakeview. He was a member of the Central Methodist church, the East Otisco Farmers club and a former Grange member. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Harriet Bird; five sons, Jesse of Ozone, Tenn., Wilfrid, Richard, George, all of Belding, and James of Wausau, Wisconsin; two daughters, Mrs. Maida Lincoln of Greenville and Mrs. Louise Boldt of Royal Oak; fourteen grandchildren; and a sister, Mrs. Frances Atkins of Bandon, County Cork, Ireland. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/b/bird9977nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb