Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Connell, Mary Jane (Clarkston) 1895
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Belding Banner - thursday, 11 July 1895


Died, in Belding at an early hour last Sunday morning, Mrs. James T. Connell.  
Mrs. Connell was born July 24, 1840, at Toledo, Ohio, her maiden name being 
Mary Jane Clarkston.  When a small child her parents moved to Mt. Morris, N. 
Y., at which place July 3d, 1861 she was united in marriage to the husband who 
survives her.  In 1871 they came to Michigan locating first at Lowell where 
they remained one year, afterwards at Greenville for seven years then coming 
to Belding, where there have since resided, a period of sixteen years.

Six children have been born to them, five sons and one daughter, two of the 
boys dying in early youth.  The eldest remaining son being Harry J. Connell, 
Belding’s present postmaster, and also junior member of the firm of Holmes & 
Connell.  The deceased was a member of the Episcopal Church and the funeral 
services which took place from the Congregational church Wednesday at 1 
o’clock p.m. were conducted by Rev. Cyrus Mendenhall, chaplain of the Ionia S. 
H. of C., a clergyman of that denomination, assisted by Rev. B. V. Child of 
Belding.  A profusion of the most beautiful floral emblems covered the casket, 
with their sweet incense resembling her life, sweet, pure and lovely.  The 
remains were most tenderly laid away to the well earned rest in the River 
Ridge cemetery.

Mrs. Connell had been an invalid for the past eight years but instead of 
making it a tax upon those whose duty it was to care for her, her infirmities 
seemed to bind them the closer, and she indeed reaped a bountiful harvest for 
the tender and loving recollections will live on in the hearts of those who 
knew her while life lasts.  There were present at the last sad rites besides 
the family here, a brother and sister, Wm. Clarkston, and Mrs. Frank LaRue 
both from Mt. Morris N. Y.




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