Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Bradley, John M. 1934
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The Portland Observer, Thursday, April 4, 1934

John M. Bradley, 85, prominent Sebewa township resident and last of the 
township’s civil war veterans, was buried Monday after funeral services at the 
home of his daughter, Mrs. John Benschoter, where he died Friday.  Mr. Bradley 
was postmaster for years at Sebewa Corners where he conducted a general 
store.  He was widely known through the county.  Mr. Bradley served in Company 
C, 152nd Indiana volunteer infantry during the Civil war.

In 1862 he bought a mill in Odessa township moving it to Mecosta and in 1888 
bought the building in Sebewa which he occupied for many years.   He was 
postmaster from 1888 to 1892, and from 1896 to 1912 when the Sebewa office was 
done away with.  He was a republican of the old school and always active and 
prominent in county politics, being one of the Sebewa standbys of the old 
Gridley club.  His daughter, Mrs. Benschoter, is the only surviving member of 
his family.  Members of the I.O.O.F. lodge of which he was an honorary member 
conducted services and Rev. John H. Stewart, of Portland, officiated.  Burial 
was at Sebewa cemetery.


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