Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Canfield, Anna 1884
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Portland Observer, 16 Jan 1884

Mrs. Anna Canfield: – This lady aged 81 years, mother of John and Truman 
Canfield died at her son’s house Mr. Edmond Canfield, on Saturday the 12th 
inst., near Maple corners, Mich., where she had resided 44 years having been 
one of the pioneer settlers in that locality.  When she and her husband first 
came here in 1839 they lived for a time in a tent.  Her husband died in 1860 
having been a class leader in the M.E. Church for 26 years.  Mrs. Canfield has 
been herself a member of the Methodist Church for 45 years, being of that 
number who see little in their life worth living for – unless Christ be “formed 
within the heart the hope of glory.”  The esteem in which she was held by the 
friends and neighbors was testified to by the large concourse of people who 
attended the funeral services which were conducted by the Rev. G. W. Bothwell 
assisted by the choir of the Congregational Church on Sabbath at two p.m.

Of her twelve children but six remain.  One by one the pioneers of whom the 
earth seems unworthy – tired of this earthly life are leaving us – “resting 
from their labors their works do follow them.”


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