Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Branyan, Phebe Eliza (Clark) 1912
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Ionia Daily Sentinel, 9 Aug 1912

In Memory of Phebe Clark Branyan.

Again the gates that bar the passage to the shining land of the Hereafter have
opened and another well beloved one has passed through, leaving a desolated
home, a stricken husband and a host of sorrowing friends.

While we know that our loss is her gain, still that loss is just as bitter and
hard to bear.  She was one who helped to make life brighter and every one about
her better, so patient, so brave, so uncomplaining was she, even when the hand
of pain was laid heavily upon her.  The touch seemed but to purify and refine a
beautiful and heroic soul.  To have known and loved such a character was an
education in goodness and patience and purity.  In the words of the well chosen
text: “She hath done what she could.”

Phebe Eliza Clark was born in the village of Vesper, Onondago county, N.Y., Oct.
23, 1858.  Six years later the family removed to North Plains, Mich., where they
purchased land and laid the foundation of their present fine home and prosperous
farm.  In 1885 she was married to Rollin W. Branyan by Esquire Hoy of Bushnell,
an old friend of the family and the first year of their wedded life was lived in
Sidney, Montcalm county.  They then returned to the home of her widowed mother
and brother Joel, remaining there until their removal to this place.

Always both as child and woman she was more than ordinarily attached to her
mother and the year spent in Sidney was the only one she ever lived apart from
her until her mother died in 1900.

She united with the Methodist class of North Plains under the ministration of
Rev. VanDerwalker in the autumn of 1910.

She was the youngest of a family of seven children, only one of whom survives
her, Julius Clark of Hancock, Wis.

Feb. 20, 1913, she came with her husband to Muir and settled in their lovely
home on Ionia street where her gentleness and sweetness won for her many new and
devoted friends during the few months of her life here. 

In passing on beyond she leaves a blessed and beautiful memory and it is but
simple truth to say of her: “None knew her but to love her, Or named her but to
praise.”


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