Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Crispin, Johnathan R. 1918
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Ionia Sentinel Standard, 25 Jul 1918

Johnathan R. Crispin was born of American parents at Waynesville, Q., March 22, 
1843.  He was educated at Lebanon, Ohio, united with the Church of Christ, and 
served in the Civil War, Fourth Independent Battalion, Ohio cavalry.  In 1866? 
he married Mary Carman, who died in 1871 leaving two sons.  In 1868 he moved to 
Benzie county, Michigan and later to Ionia county, where in 1875, he married 
Callie D. Moon, who bore him two sons and one daughter.  After teaching several 
years in various localities, he settled in Ionia, January 1, 1880.  For over 
thirty-five years he was a foreman painter for the D. L. & N., and Pere 
Marquette.

Shortly after coming to Ionia he united with the Baptist church, in which he 
has been a deacon since 1896.  He died July 21, 1918, of paralysis after an 
illness of ten days, the first break in the family circle for forty-six years, 
and was laid to rest in Oakhill July 24.  He is survived by the widow and five 
children, Wilmarth, Edwin, Charles, Ethel, and Lynn, a brother Joseph, a 
sister, Miss Henrietta, three grandchildren, John and Dwight Crispin and Mrs. 
H. R. Jones, and a great grandchild, Betty Ann Jones.

He was an unceasing worker and was best known for his devotion to his family 
and his faithfulness to his employers.  


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