Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Bretz, Sarah A.(Telford) May 23, 1896
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Lake Odessa Scrapbook - May 1896

Mrs.Sarah A.Bretz was born September 3rd,1831 and died May 23rd,1896, Aged64 
years, 8 months and 20 days. Her maiden name was Telford and Stuben Co.,New York 
was the place of her birth. When four years old her parents moved to Melmore, 
Seneca Co., Ohio, where she lived till she came to Michigan. On the 27th of 
Sept. 1855 she was married to Mr.Valentine Bretz. They moved to Michigan about 
37 years ago, about two years before the civil war.To mention the fact that her 
husband was in the Union service during the war is but to hint at what she 
endured during those terrible years. Seven children were born to them, three 
sons and two daughters remain to mourn, the loss of one of the best of mothers. 
The husband and father received his honorable discharge from life's warfare on 
the 11th of June 1886 and now she too has gone to join that innumerable company, 
in that mysterious realm from whence no traveler returns.

At the age of 13 she was converted and united with the Presbyterian church. When 
she came here, not finding a Presbyterian church, she united with the Wesleyan 
Methodist church.

In the early spring of 1876 the Methodist Episcopal Society was organized here, 
and the Wesleyan class having gone down, Mrs. Bretz joined the M.E. Society very 
shortly after its organization. For twenty years she was a faithful and 
efficient worker in this church and the church joins with her relatives in 
mourning their loss. We are comforted, yea rejoice in the assurance that 
"Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth;Yea, saith the 
Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works do follow them."

Additional Comments:
Lakeside Cem.
 #2-150
Lake Odessa,MI

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