Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Chick, James 1913
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Carson City Gazette, 25 Sep 1913

James Chick was born Aug. 31, 1843, at Gandhurst, Kent Co., England.  He came 
with his father to America in 1853 and settled on a farm in North Shade 
township, Gratiot Co., Mich., where he grew to manhood.  In 1868 he was married 
to Miss Harriet Cronkite, foster daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kellogg and since 
that time had made the old homestead his home until his life went out in the 
early hours of Sept. 17, 1913.

Coming of sturdy English stock he was a man of decided religious and moral 
convictions and he never let an opportunity pass that he did not speak for what 
he thought was for the highest moral good of his fellow-men.  Always of a kind 
and genial disposition he drew people to him by an irresistible force and made 
friends of those he opposed where others of less geniality would have made 
enemies.  His home and pocket book were always open to the unfortunate and 
every good cause found in him an earnest advocate.

He leaves to mourn his loss the wife of his zenith, a son, Fred, living near, 
one other son dying when a child, daughter, Mrs. Sessions, living at Nashville, 
Mich., five grandchildren and a host of friends among the neighbors where his 
entire life was spent which was eloquently attested to by the immense throngs 
that crowded the spacious farm home where his funeral was held Sept. 20 in 
charge of his pastor, W. W. Chatfield and his body was laid to rest in East 
Side Cemetery, Hubbardston.  [There is a note on this copy of the obituary that 
he was buried in West Side Cemetery.]  The floral offerings were both beautiful 
and chaste.  Every society in both village and church laying a tribute of 
esteem on his silent form.


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