Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Conner, Frank Adelbert 1930
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Ionia County News, 27 Mar 1930

Frank Conner Answers Last of Roll Calls
Aged Civil War Vet Dies At Daughter’s Home After Long Illness.
Was Lincoln Guard
Well Known Hereabouts As Grower Of Small Fruit

Frank Conner, 83, aged civil war veteran of Muir died last Sunday at the home of
his daughter, Mrs. George West who lives just north of town, after a long
illness.  Funeral services were held from the late residence Wednesday afternoon
at 2 p.m.

Mr. Conner was a guard at the bier of Abraham Lincoln when the martyred
president was assassinated.  He was stationed at Washington at the time in the
veterans reserve corp and was one of the first of the military to reach the
scene of the shooting.

Mr. Conner was a member of the Sixth Michigan heavy artillery, having seen much
active service in the south.  He was stricken with fever while there and later
invalided to Washington as unfit for active service.  It was at this time he was
stationed at Washington.

He was discharged from the service in 1865 and came to Muir where he engaged in
farming.  He has owned several farms in this territory and was well known as a
grower of fruits.

He was married to Miss Mary Greenhoe in 1871 and is survived by Mrs. Conner.  He
also leaves seven children, Mrs. Nettie McGlinchey, Mrs. George West, Harry
Conner, and Mrs. William Dennis, of Muir; Mrs. Glenn Sayers of Lansing; Mrs.
Fred Evans of Detroit and Mrs. Glenn MacLaren of Grand Rapids.  He also leaves
18 grandchildren and several great grandchildren.


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