Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Crispin, Caroline D. January 1, 1948
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The Ionia County News, Thursday, January 8, 1948
Mrs. Caroline D. Crispin, 91, died at her home, 449 Rice St., New Years night, 
1948, after several weeks illness.  She became ill November 17, and two days 
before Christmas fell and fractured her hip.  From that time on she failed 
rapidly.

Caroline Moon was born in Bridgewater, N. Y., Nov. 30, 1856, and came to 
Michigan and Ionia county when she was ten years old.

On October 7, 1875 she was married to Jonathan R. Crispin, of Berlin Township, 
and with her husband went to a farm near Frankfort, Mich., where they lived 
for two years.  They returned to Ionia county and spent two years on a farm in 
Berlin, before coming to Ionia to make their home.  Mrs. Crispin had lived for 
68 years in the home where she died January 1.  She joined the Baptist church 
in Ionia in 1875 and was an active worker in the church and its societies for 
many years.

Surviving her are three sons, Lynn of Olympia, Wash., Wilmarth of Detroit, and 
St. Petersburg, Fla., and Edwin S. of Detroit, and a daughter, Miss Ethel 
Crispin of Ionia.  Mr. Crispin died in July, 1918, and another son, Charles, 
died in 1922.

Rev. J. Lee Lewis of the First Baptist church officiated at the funeral 
service, held from the stone Funeral Home Monday afternoon.  Bearers were 
Hiram Darling, Mer Ross, Gayle Galloway, Eugene Snell, E. W. Krainbrink and O. 
O. Hilborn.  Burial was in the family lot in Oak Hill cemetery.

The C. C. W. class of the First Baptist church attended the services in a 
group and served as an honorary escort.

Relatives attending the funeral from out of town were: Lynn Crispin, of 
Olympia, Wash.; Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Crispin, Dwight Crispin, Mr. and Mrs. John 
W. Crispin, Jr., and Mrs. William S. Adair of Detroit, Mr. and Mrs. A. Van 
Koevering of Grand Rapids, and Mrs. Ella Carman and Mrs. Minor Carman of 
Saranac.



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