Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....CROSS, Leah L. (Beland) October 2005 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: LaVonne Bennett lib@dogsbark.comMarch 18, 2006, 10:59 am THE SEBEWA RECOLLECTOR Newsletter from Sebewa, Volume 41 October 2005 Number 2; submitted with permission of Editor, Grayden D. Slowins Leah L. Cross, 93, widow of Allen Cross, mother of Robert, Dean, Donald and Kendall Cross, and Elaine (Donald) Nash, sister of Rosa Fleetham, Henry and Thomas Beland and the late Gladys White, daughter of Rosa (Cogswell) & Henry Beland, Sr. Leah was born in Loda, IL, and came to the Sunfield-Sebewa town- line area with her family as a young girl. Leah & Allen were married for 72 years and farmed for most of those years on the Cross homestead on Henderson Road in Sebewa Township, which was settled by John Cross before 1875. Leah was one of our longtime Election Inspectors in Sebewa Township. They also traveled extensively and were active in the LeValley United Methodist Church and the Sebewa Center Association. They are buried in East Sebewa Cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/c/cross887gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb