Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Bush, Sidney S. 1907
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Belding Banner, 16 May 1907

Sidney S. Bush was born in Vermont September 9, 1830, and passed to his heavenly
rest on May 1, 1907, aged seventy-seven years, seven months and twenty-one days.

In 1850 he was united in marriage to Ellen Elizabeth Mills, with whom he
journied as a loving companion for fifty-seven years and who with the four
daughters given them, live to mourn the loss of a kind husband and father.

They came to Michigan about 1865 and settled near Hudson where they resided for
two years, then coming to Shiawassee county.  From there they moved to Atlanta,
Mich., where they resided eight years, and then, about four years ago came to
Belding and have since resided with their daughter, Mrs. Daniel Cameron.

In 1879 he was converted and with his wife joined the Methodist church in which
faith he lived and died, and though for a number of years Father Bush has been
in poor health, and in the more recent years bed-ridden, which deprived him of
the blessing of public service, yet he was sustained and kept by the power of
the Spirit what dwelleth not in temples made with hands.  By his cheerful, sunny
spirit by the use of his mental faculties and comforted by the kindly ministries
of loved ones, he possessed his soul in patience and peace to the end.  The
close of his earthly life came as the wise man said, “Or even the silver chord
be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the
fountain, or the wheel be broken at the cistern, then shall the dust return to
the earth as it was and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.”  Even so
let it be for we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were
dissolved we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the
heavens.

The funeral was held from the home of Mrs. Cameron on Saturday at 2:00 p.m., his
pastor, Rev. J.W. Sheehan, speaking from Paul’s words recorded in Phil. 1-21,
“For me to live is Christ and to die is gain.”  Death is gain to the Christian,
not simply because of its escape from the infirmities, sorrows and limitations
of the earthly life, but is a gain because of its entrance into a large life,
his to depart and be with Christ.

“There is no death, that which we call death is but transition.”

A brother, Alfred O. Bush, of Saginaw, and three of the four daughters, Mrs.
Rose Thompson of Rose City, Mrs. Nellie Babcock of Harbor Springs and Mrs.
Cameron together with several grandchildren and great-grandchildren were present
at the funeral , one daughter, Mrs. Mary Coon, being unable to attend.  The
remains were laid to rest in Riverside cemetery.


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