Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Curtis, Sheldon P. 1924
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Ionia Sentinel Standard, 11 Feb 1924

Sheldon P.Curtis, Civil War Veteran Under Custer, is dead

Funeral services for Sheldon Curtis, 85, prominent Ionia county farmer and 
Civil war veteran, will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the home in 
Saranac.

Mr.Curtiss was for years a farmer in Berlin toownship, but in recent years has 
resided in Saranac. He was a veteran of the Civil War, serving in the Custer 
cavalry brigade as a member of the Sixth Michigan cavalry under Gen. George 
A.Custer, and was at one time a prisoner in Andersonville prison. He passed his 
eighty-fifth birthday last April. Old age was given as the cause of death .

Mr.Curtis was for a year a farmer ago. He leaves seven children Arthur 
N.Curtis, of Saranac; Mrs.Rosa Stowell, Lansing; Mrs.Lillie Smith, Saranac; 
Mrs.Della Mains, Chicago; Mrs.Edith Mains, Chicago; Mrs.Evelyn Lowrey, Dearborn.

Interment will be in the family lot in the Saranac cemetery and Rev.Harry 
Walker, of Grand Rapids will officiate.


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