Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Crothers, Ellen J. 1870
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Saturday, February 26, 1870
Died.  Crothers—in Ionia, Mich., Saturday morning, Feb. 19, 1870, Mrs. Ellen 
J. Crothers, wife of W. J. Crothers, Esq., and daughter of Leonard Goodrich, 
Esq., in the 28th year of her age.

It is particularly painful to make this record concerning one who, in the 
several relations of daughter, sister, wife, mother, friend and Christian had 
by her manifold excellence endeared herself to a large circle of 
acquaintances, and to whom but a few months ago the future was bright with 
promise of usefulness and happiness.  But “He who doeth all things well” hath 
deemed best to remove her from a world of sin, sickness, sorrow and pain, to 
one wherein He wipeth away all tears from all faces.  

Her illness, which at first seemed likely to be temporary, began with a severe 
cold, in May last and culminated in that insidious disease, quick 
consumption.  During the several months in which the disease was making steady 
and sure progress toward a fatal termination, she exhibited extraordinary 
patience, meekness, and resignation to the will of her Heavenly Father.  
Nevertheless, for the sake of her husband and children, and her Great Master, 
she ardently longed, and, to within a few hours of her departure, hoped to 
live yet many years.  The ordeal of trial was severe by reason of her own 
protracted illness and of the death of the elder of two children, a boy of 
three and a half years, whose remains she followed, (Dec. 18th) to the grave.

Hopefully converted when about fifteen years of age, she lived the life and 
died the death of a follower of Jesus.  She united first with the Presbyterian 
and afterwards with the Congregational Church, in Ionia, and honored her 
profession.  Among her last words to her husband was the confident 
expression, “I am going to leave you to meet my little boy and other friends 
in heaven.”  Fearlessly, hopefully, peacefully she entered “the dark valley,” 
and, we doubt not, is now in this full fruition of the bliss of that world.


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