Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Childs, Sylvia 1915
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The Ionia Standard, Friday, February 19, 1915

Mrs. Sylvia Childs of 636 West Lincoln avenue, died on Monday, at the old home 
residence where she resided with her daughter, Mrs. Albert Schurr.  She was 75 
years of age and was born at Wilma, New York.  She was married to J. A. Childs 
March 9, 1856, at Black River, Jefferson Co., N.Y., his death occurring in 
1906.  They came to Michigan and settled at Saranac.  In 1863 they moved to 
Lyons and in 1864 came to South Boston, moving to Saranac in the spring of 
1866.  In 1880 they moved back to South Ionia.  Later they moved to Ionia and 
resided on West Lincoln avenue where they resided until their deaths.

Mrs. Childs united with the Methodist church in 1892 during the Updike 
meetings here.  She attended service there until distance and her age made it 
impossible.  She was a faithful mother and leaves four children, Mrs. Emma 
Conkrite of Chicago, Albert Childs of Ionia, Mrs. Linnie Denitz of Charlotte, 
and Mrs. Albert Schurr of Ionia.  One son, Eugene, died in 1875.



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