Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Cornell, Alfred 1893
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, December, 1993
100 Years Ago:  December 27, 1893

The Rev. Alfred Cornell was born in Easton, Madison County, N.Y., July 7, 
1813.  He came to Ionia with them in 1833, the fall after the Dexter colony 
came.  Dr. Cornell united with the Baptist Church in 1841, returned to N.Y. to 
study for the ministry the following December.  He received his education at 
Madison University, and after leaving there he was ordained to the ministry 
and for two years was pastor of a church in Wayne County, N.Y.

Elder Cornell settled in Ionia permanently in 1845, at which time he became 
pastor of the Baptist Church of Ionia, which pulpit he occupied for 17 years.  
He then accepted a pastorate in Norwalk, Ohio, which he held for four years, 
when he was again called to the Ionia Baptist Church and was its pastor for 
two years, when he resigned to take charge of the Smyrna Baptist Church.  At 
the end of 3 years there he went to Portland where he remained for 5½ years, 
when he accepted the appointment of chaplain in Michigan Reformatory.  He held 
this position and was pastor of the Palo Baptist Church.  He then went to 
Carson City for 3½ years.

He was married in December 1836 to Amanda, daughter of judge Erastus Yeomans.  
She died in 1862.  Mr. Cornell was again married in 1863 to Katie Mason of 
Ripley, N.Y., who survives him.  

Editor’s Note:  Cornell also served with the Sanitary Commission, a Civil War 
predecessor of the Red Cross.

The funeral services of the late Alfred Cornell were held at the Baptist 
Church this afternoon and so large an attendance at a weekday funeral has not 
been seen for many years.  The church was filled not with pioneers only, 
either, showing the very great esteem in which the deceased was held in the 
community where for more than sixty years he had been an active factor for 
good.  An appropriate ceremony was preached by the pastor of the church, the 
Rev. F. O. Dickey.  The bearers were C. A. Cornell, H. A. Cornell, Stanley 
Cornell, Frank Cornell.  The interment was in Oak Hill Cemetery.


Additional Comments:
Transcriber’s Note:  This obituary appeared in the “100 Years Ago” column of 
the Ionia Sentinel-Standard in December 1993.  The information was gleaned 
from a newspaper printed 100 years prior to that date.



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