Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Crippen, Mary Anne (Germaine) 1909
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Belding Banner, 11 Feb 1909

Mary Anne Germaine was born in Marcellus, N. Y., April 19, 1820.  Was married 
Aug. 16, 1840 to Silas Crippen and came in Sept. of the same year to North 
Plains, Ionia county to the farm where she lived until Sept., 1874, since when 
she has resided with her daughter, Mrs. Mont Spaulding in Orleans until her 
death which occurred Feb. 4, 1909.  Twin daughters were born to them one of 
whom died in childhood.

The remains were taken to the North Plains Union church where services were 
conducted by Rev. Will of Muir, who spoke words of comfort to her friends and 
old neighbors and the flower laden casket was laid away in the North Plains 
cemetery, near the place which was her home so many years, beside her husband 
who died in 1857.  She was the oldest member of the Ionia county pioneer 
society.


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