Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Daskam, Julianna E. (Truesdell) 1919
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Lyons Herald, 1 May 1919

Early Monday morning, April 28, Mrs. Julianna Daskam passed to her reward from 
the home of her daughter, Mrs. W.R. grant, in this village, at the age of 
seventy-five.

Her maiden name was Julianna Truesdell, and she was born in Erie county, 
Pennsylvania, March 5, 1844.  She moved with her parents to Fremont, Iowa, in 
1865, and on December 25 of that year, she was united in marriage to Hiram S. 
Daskam, who had recently returned from the Civil War.  In 1867, they came to 
Michigan in company with her father, John Truesdell, and his family.  They made 
the trip from Iowa to Michigan in “prairie schooners;” and located in North 
Plains township, this county, which was then a dense forest.

Mr. Daskam died in 1873, on the farm he had cleared.  She remained on the farm 
until 1882; then she moved to Muir where she lived until 1897 when she came to 
live in Lyons.  Four children had been born to them, a boy dying in infancy, a 
daughter who died at thirteen, and two daughters who still live, Mrs. A.E. 
Bradt and Mrs. W.R. Grant, of Lyons.

She was religious from childhood, and when eighteen years of age united with 
the Methodist Episcopal church, of which she continued a faithful member until 
her death.  In the years of her strength, she was active in Christian work.  In 
all the county round, she ministered in the homes where there was sickness and 
death.  Service and sacrifice for others characterized all her life.  She often 
walked with her children several miles to attend church.  She was a willing 
worker in the Ladies Aid Society, and in the social occasions of the church.  
But it was to the work of the Sunday School that she was most especially 
devoted; she was Sunday School superintendent and chorister at times, and most 
of the time teacher of classes of boys and it was a grief to her when advancing 
age compelled her to relinquish this work.  

For many weeks she has been confined to her bed.  It was hard for her, who had 
always ministered to others, to resign herself to helplessness, but faith 
carried her safely “over the long last mile,” and she was enabled to say 
sweetly, “Thy will be done.”  It was by her own request they Tendyson’s 
“Crossing Bar” was read at her funeral service and that the text used was, 
“Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord.”

Simple funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at the home of Dr. W.R. 
Grant, conducted by her pastor. G.A. Brown, and her body laid to rest in North 
Plains cemetery.


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