Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....DeLong, Clarissa 1879
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The Ionia Sentinel, Friday, January 17, 1879

Mrs. Clarissa DeLong died Jan. 15th, of consumption of the bowls; aged 78 
years.

Subsequent Publication:  Friday, February 14, 1879

At Muir, Mich., Jan. 14, Mrs. Clarissa DeLong.

She was born in North Adams, Burkshire county, Mass. Sept. 4, 1800.  She was 
married to James DeLong, in Fairfield, Herkimer county, N.Y.—They moved to 
Michigan in 1842.  The rest of their life was spent in Ionia county, Michigan, 
and most of that time in widowhood, her husband having died in 1843, leaving 
her to the responsibility of rearing a family of five daughters.  Industrious, 
economical, and supremely devoted to her family, she was successful in 
educating and training them for usefulness and an honorable place in society.  
One daughter, in early womanhood, passed over the river many years age; four 
of them were left to comfort her old age, and to watch over her with Christian 
faith and hope in her dying hours.  Possessed of a quick understanding and 
strong common sense, she joined with those a thirst for knowledge and a good 
literary taste that made her a great reader and an independent thinker.  
Confused by the unsatisfactory religious teaching to which she had listened in 
early years, she was led to doubt much of what was regarded as strictly 
orthodox doctrine; but her faith in Christ as the Divine Savior was firm and 
abiding—and when the simple teachings of the Disciples was first heard in that 
county, she listened with delight, and rejoiced to see her children rank 
themselves among the disciples of Christ.

Of very simple and temperate habits, tho apparently frail, her life was 
prolonged to nearly four more years and she possessed to the last not only the 
devoted love of her children, but the confidence and esteem of all who knew 
her.  Her life gently faded out and her mind was clear and bright to the last, 
even in her extremest weakness, and her spirit altogether calm and strong in 
faith and hope.

Having been her neighbor for many years, and knowing her personal worth, we 
take pleasure in bearing witness to her intellectual vigor, moral excellence, 
and pure spiritual aspirations; and we offer to our stricken family our 
earnest sympathy in the loss of a mother so long their guide and familiar, and 
endeared to them by countless loving memories of goodness, faithfulness and 
deathless affection.   Ed. Christian Standard


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