Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Carpenter, Sarah Frances May 4, 1936
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Monday, May 4, 1936
Mrs. Sarah Frances Carpenter, 93, died Monday morning at 12:30 o’clock at the 
home of her daughter, Mrs. Maggie Cole, in South Ionia.  She has been ailing 
for several years and she suffered a slight stroke Thursday.  

Mrs. Carpenter was born in Orleans township, November 13, 1841, and was the 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin H. Higbee, who were settles here from New 
York.  April 12, 1866 a double wedding took place at the Higbee home, Miss 
Sarah Higbee and Benjamin Carpenter, Henry Hall and Cordelia Higbee being 
united.  Mr. Carpenter was a civil war veteran and died February 4, 1911.  In 
1920 she moved from Orleans township to Ionia township where she lived with 
her daughter.  She was one of the oldest living pioneers of Ionia county, 
having lived here all her life.

She is survived by one sister, Mrs. Laura L. Williams of Hamburg, two 
daughters, Mrs. Laura Squires, of Muskegon, and Mrs. Maggie Cole, of South 
Ionia; two sons, Lewis Carpenter, of Newaygo, and Ralph Carpenter, of Ionia 
township; six grandchildren, and nine great grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon, May 6, at 2 o’clock from 
the Stone funeral home.  Rev. F. J. Fitch will officiate and interment will be 
at the Higbee cemetery.


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