Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Brisbin, Charles Ezekial (Mr.) December 11, 1937
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Lake Odessa Wave - Times - Dec. 16, 1937
             CHARLES E. BRISBIN AN ODESSA PIONEER
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HELPED CLEAR UNBROKEN WILDERNESS JUST WEST OF LAKE ODESSA. 
         LATER MOVED TO CARLTON.  DIED DECEMBER 11
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   Charles E. Brisbane who has lived on the farm known as the David Williams farm in
Carlton township for the 
past twenty-nine years, passed away Saturday, Dec. 11, 1937.  He came with his
parents from near Waterloo, 
Lenawee county, Michigan, when a child of nine or ten years of age, making the trip
with a neighbor who 
helped to move the stock to the new home, one-half mile west of Lake Odessa, then an
unbroken wilderness.
    At that time the road now M-50, was a rudely blazed trail as were any other
roads in this section.
                                      OBITUARY
   Charles Ezekial Brisbin, son of George and Margaret Ann Swarthout was born
December 8, 1854 and 
departed this life December 3, 1937, aged 83 years and three days.
   He was married to M. Augusta Vicent, May 17, 1892.  To this union were born two
children George V. Brisbin 
of Coats Grove and Margaret Alice Blumer who resides on the homestead in Carlton
township, and one step-
son of Jensen, Fla., seventeen grandchildren and one great-grandson Charles John
Vincent of Grand Rapids, 
Mich.; two brothers William H. Brisbin, Lipden J. Brisbin; and one sister Pheobe J
Woodard, all of Ionia; 
several nieces and nephews, and many other relatives.
   He was a kind and thoughtful husband and father, an accommodating neighbor and
greatly respected by all 
who knew him.  He will be greatly missed by his family and those who knew him best.
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                       CARD OF THANKS
   We desire to thank the friends and neighbors for their kindness and assistance at
the time of the sickness 
and death of our beloved husband and father.  Also for the beautiful flowers and for
the comforting words of 
the minister.
              Mrs. C C. Brisbin and Children.

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