Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Condon, Samuel 1909
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Ionia Daily Sentinel, 10 Feb & 4 Mar 1909

Death Of Pioneer

Samuel Condon Of Otisco Has Lived On Same Farm

Over Fifty Years – Death Occurred Monday Morning – Leaves Eight Children and 
Widow – Eighty-Two 
Years of Age – Funeral Thursday.

Smyrna, Feb. 9.  Samuel Condon, a pioneer resident of Otisco township, died at 
his home near Smyrna Monday morning, Feb. 8, aged 82 years.  Mr. Condon was 
born near Brantford, Canada, and, with his wife and child, moved to this 
township over fifty years ago, locating on the farm where they have since 
lived.  To Mr. and Mrs. Condon were born twelve children, eight of whom are 
living.  Two daughters, Mrs. Vina Swain, of California and Mrs. Bertha Buck, of 
Great Falls, Mont., and one son, Charles Condon, of Spring Brook, N. D., were 
not with their parents during the sickness of their father, the others with 
their families have all been in daily attendance at his bedside, with the 
exception of Mrs. Geo. Keller, of Boyne Falls, who arrived here last Saturday 
night.  Funeral services will be held on Thursday at the Baptist church in 
Smyrna.

Samuel Condon has always been a hard working, peaceful and respected citizen of 
our neighborhood.  A just and upright man.  His four-score years have been 
singularly blessed with good health and until last summer he never had occasion 
to employ a physician for himself.  The sympathy of the entire community goes 
out to Mrs. Condon in this hour of her bereavement, when after so many years of 
wedded life she is left to mourn the loss of her companion.

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Samuel C. Condon was born near Hamilton, Ontario, on October 22, 1828, and died 
at his home near Smyrna, Mich., on February 8, 1909, aged 81 years, three 
months and seventeen days.

His early life was spent on the farm with his parents.  On January 29, 1850, he 
was united in marriage to Miss Marie Hawley of Brantford, Ont.  To this union 
twelve children were born, eight of whom are still living.

Mr. Condon and family came to Michigan in 1857 and settled on a farm in 
Vergennes where they lived until 1877 when they moved to the farm in Otisco 
where they resided until the time of his death.

On January 29, 1900, Mr. and Mrs. Condon celebrated the fiftieth, or golden, 
anniversary of their wedding, and had Mr. Condon lived another year he and his 
wife could have celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of their marriage.

Deceased was a man of sterling integrity, a loving and considerate husband, a 
kind father and a good and obliging neighbor, always ready, when needful, to 
offer a helping hand.

He leaves to mourn his loss, besides his aged wife, Mrs. Maria Condon, four 
sons and four daughters, as follows:  Mrs. S. P. Swain, of Descanso, 
California; Edgar and Elgin of Smyrna; Mrs. George Keeler of Boyne Falls, 
Mich.; Charles E. Condon, of Springbrook, North Dakota; Mrs. F. M. Buck of 
Great Falls, Montana; Mrs. Frank Tillotson and Frank E. Condon of Belding.

The funeral services were held in the Baptist church in Smyrna, on Friday, 
February 12, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon, conducted by Rev. N. J. Myers 
pastor of the Congregational church of Belding.  The floral offerings were 
numerous and beautiful, especially those provided by the Maccabees.  Interment 
in Smyrna cemetery.


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