Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Cornell, Thomas 1883
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The Ionia Sentinel, Thursday, August 23, 1883
Thomas Cornell, or “Squire Cornell,” as he was commonly called, who died 
peacefully on Sunday afternoon while sitting on the piazza of his own house in 
this city, was born at Hamilton, Madison county, N.Y., January 28, 1805, and 
was therefore 78 years of age.  In the year 1833 he accompanied his father to 
Michigan on a prospecting tour, and in the fall of that year removed with his 
family to the then territory.  For a year or so he lived in Grand Haven, but 
subsequently came to Ionia, where he had since resided, having owned and 
occupied the farm on which he died for forty-two years.  

He was a brother of the late Dr. Cornell and of Rev. Alfred Cornell, who 
survives him.  In 1830 he was married, in the town of Richmond, Madison 
county, N.Y., to Miss Orpha Beckwith, who is still living.  Of this union 
seven children were born, one of whom died in infancy.  Thomas died while 
serving in the army during the war.  Alanson lived to manhood, and died from a 
dose of poison taken by mistake for quinine.  Four children survive, viz.:  
Mrs. C. H. Axtell (nee Mary Cornell), of Alma, and three sons, C.A., A.S. and 
E.E., all living here.

Deceased lived a quiet, unostentatious and exemplary life.  He was a member 
always in good standing of the Baptist church.  He was often chosen to fill 
important trusts, all of which he discharged honestly and well.  When Michigan 
was yet a territory, the acting governor, Stevens T. Mason, appointed him 
justice of the peace.  This office he held continuously during a period of 
thirty years.  He was county surveyor 15 years; register of deeds at least one 
term, and county treasurer two terms.  Besides this, he served at different 
times as supervisor and township clerk.

The funeral services were from the Baptist church, on Tuesday afternoon, the 
Rev. E. Campbell preaching, and the remains were interred in Riverview 
cemetery, James M. Kidd, Richard Dye, Sylvester Taylor and C. Oscar Thompson 
acting as the bearers.


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