Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....DeCamp, Cleophas (Mr.) December 17, 1939
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Lake Odessa Wave - Times - December 21, 1939
          LIFELONG SERVICE CLOSES AT AGE OF 82
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       CLEOPHAS DECAMP PASSES AFTER A LIFE OF
       INTELLIGENT INFLUENCE UPON MANY PEOPLE. 
                LEAVES WIDOW AND THREE SONS. 
                      FUNERAL WEDNESDAY
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   Among the men of influence, respect, and Christian Integrity, especially in the
community of where he lived 
was none held in higher esteem than Cleophas DeCamp.  Mr. DeCamp after a full life
of 82 years gently 
passed away last Sunday evening, Dec. 17, 1939 from a life well lived and a life of
favorable impression on 
others.
   Mr. DeCamp was born in Jefferson township, Noble county, Ind., and came with his
parents to Michigan at 
the age of nine years.  The family settled on a farm two and a half miles north of
Sebewa Corners.  He 
attended the High School in Sebewa, going from here to Portland high school, then to
Valpariso, (Ind.) 
Normal, and again to Kalamazoo Normal.  He entered the teaching profession where he
taught in the rural 
schools of Eaton and Ionia counties for 48 years from 1877 to 1925.  Many men and
women of today received 
instruction and inspiration from his influence and advice as he was a practical view
of live's responsibility.
   His death marks also the close of a long and active Christian life.  He was a
kind and loving husband and 
father, and he was one of the older pioneers of this section of Michigan.
   For upwards of 40 years Mr. DeCamp was a faithful correspondent of The Lake
Odessa Wave, sending his 
Woodbury items regularly written by hi sown hand, even when it became very shaky
with feebleness, but it 
was always legible.
   The deceased leaves his widow Susan Eudora DeCamp of Woodbury, three sons and
their families, Robert 
of Nashville, Hugh of Imlay City, and Forrest of Woodbury, five grandchildren and
four great grandchildren, 
together with a large circle of other relatives ad a host of friends and neighbors.
   Funeral services were held at his home in Woodbury, Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 20,
with the Rev. E. M. 
Wheeler, pastor of the Woodbury U. B. church officiating and burial was in Lakeside
cemetery.

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