Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Carter, Adelia M. (Norcutt) 1932 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sandy Heintzelman sheintz@iserv.net May 17, 2011, 7:20 pm Lake Odessa Wave, 20 Oct 1932 For many years the Zeno Carter family have been a power for good in this community. In former years Mr. and Mrs. Carter were prominent members of the Farmer’s club which was a most active institution, but later when many of its older members had passed away it developed into the Grange of today. The Carters were very capable people, always in the lead in every movement of progress and improvement. They were cultured and refined and gave to their children a heritage of more value than legacies of wealth, although through thrift they accumulated a comfortable home and gave to their children the chance in life to become the valuable citizens they are today. Mrs. Carter was of a modest, retired nature, but loyal to her family, her friends and to her God whom she was ever ready to serve in fear and reverence. She has been tenderly cared for at the home of her daughter Grace for nineteen weeks. One by one these people of earlier progress are passing but the influence of their lives has helped to mold the loves of many of our citizens. Last week we recorded the passing of Mrs. John Bower, Mrs. Thomas Healey, and now Mrs. Zeno Carter. The funeral service was held at the home in Lake Odessa, Tuesday afternoon, Rev. A. T. Cartland and Rev. A. T. Luther officiating. Two songs were sung by Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Goodemoot. Burial was in Lakeside cemetery. Those from away to attend the funeral of Mrs. Adelia M. Carter were: Mr. and Mrs. Benj. F. Carter and family of East Lansing; Mr. and Mrs. John F. Norcutt, Mrs. Jennie Grove, Mrs. Ella Husted and Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Batchelder of Grand Rapids; Miss Audie Post and Mr. and Mrs. S. Jay Carter, Lowell; Mr. and Mrs. Isaac DeMoor and little son, the Misses Evelyn, Lois and Laura Carter and Grace Grahand?, Kalamazoo; Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wheeler, Mr. and Mrs. Orson Sheldon, Lee and Grace Sheldon, Woodland; Rev. and Mrs. A. T. Luther and Mrs. Howard Lawrence, Ionia; Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Dodds and Mrs. Mary Aldrich, Saranac; also Mr. and Mrs. Herbert E. Graham of Gary, Ind., who have been with their mother during much of the time of her illness. Obituary Adelia M. Norcutt, daughter of Daniel and Margaret Norcutt, was born in Hunter, New York, in the Catskill mountains, February 25, 1850, and departed this life October 16, 1932, at her home in Lake Odessa at the age of 82 years, seven months and 21 days. At two years of age she moved with her parents to Bedford Ohio, and at 13 to near Lowell, Mich. April 5, 1870, she was united in marriage to Zeno W. Carter, and eight years later they moved to the farm east of Odessa Center where they lived many years until the husband’s death in 1914. To this union were born five children, all of whom remain to mourn their loss. They are: Mrs. Herbert E. Graham of Gary, Ind., Benjamin F. Carter of East Lansing, J. Leon, Charles W., and Grace P. Carter of this place with the last of whom she had made her home for the past sixteen years. Besides these she leaves one brother, John F. Norcutt of Grand Rapids, fourteen grandchildren, five great-grandchildren, many other relatives and a host of friends by whom she will be sadly missed. She was converted and united with the Methodist church in childhood but after her marriage transferred her membership to the Baptist church. Since coming to Lake Odessa she was a faithful attendant of the Methodist church as long as her health would permit. Her sweet influence will live on in the lives of all with whom she came in contact. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/c/carter11884nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 4.1 Kb