Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Dates, Anabelle May 25, 1901
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The Ionia Daily Standard, Tuesday, May 28, 1901
Mrs. S. H. Dates died at her late home at 327 Harter Street on Saturday at 4 
p.m.  Funeral was held Monday at 2 o’clock; interment at Oak Hill cemetery.  
Her husband, father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Guyberson, a sister, Mrs. 
F. M. Hecox, of Ionia, and a brother, Carl Guyberson, of Grand Rapids, survive 
her.  Prof. Bemis, C. I. Goodwin, Lou Freeman and Ed Merrett acted as pall 
bearers.  The floral offerings were very beautiful.

The Ionia Daily Standard, Saturday, June 1, 1901

Mrs. Annabelle Guyberson Dates whose death we briefly recorded this week, was 
born October 18, 1848 in the state of Ohio.  During her girlhood she removed 
with her parents to Michigan, where she resided until her marriage with Sidney 
H. Dates 20 years ago. For some years their residence was in Chicago, but two 
and one-half years since she returned with her husband to spend her last days 
in Ionia.  Five years back Mrs. Dates was stricken with that insidious 
malady “atrophy of the muscles,” which in two years rendered her a permanent 
invalid; for eighteen months she had been quite helpless and when death 
released her last Saturday she was wholly without the power to move herself. 

Mrs. Dates’ life was of rare Christian power and beauty.  Notwithstanding the 
exceedingly trying nature of her disease, she never once uttered a word of 
complaint.  Patient and gentle to the last, her final word was the name of her 
husband, whose devoted wife she had all the 20 years been. 

The funeral took place Monday afternoon.  Her pastor, Rev. W. H. B. Urch, 
preached the sermon from the words, “Being dead yet speaking.”  Mrs. Dates had 
all her life been an honored member of the Presbyterian church here and in 
Chicago, with the exception of the past year when she transferred her 
membership to the Methodist Episcopal church to be with her husband.  Mrs. 
Eugene Smith and Mrs. S. G. Allured kindly furnished appropriate music.

Among the mourners were the deceased lady’s honored father and mother, her 
brother Carl Guyberson and daughter Fay from Grand Rapids, Mrs. Marion Hecox, 
Mr. and Mrs. Thos. B. Dates of Chicago, Henry Way and wife and Mrs. Homer Wing 
of Greenville, and Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Root and daughter.  The previous remains 
were laid to rest in Oak Hill cemetery.  The floral tributes were numerous, 
conspicuous among them being a beautiful wreath contributed by Mr. Dates’ 
associates at the car shops.


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