Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Dexter, Orphelia Cook 1873
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The Ionia County Sentinel
Tuesday, September 18, 1866 
MARRIED.

DEXTER-COOK.--At Gilbert's Mills, Oswego Co. N. Y., on the 3d inst., by Rev. Mr.
Pullman, Mr. Theodore F. Dexter, of Ionia, Mich., and Miss Ophelia Cook, of the
first named place.
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The Ionia Sentinel
Friday, March 7, 1873

Obituary.--The many friends of Mrs. Theodore F. Dexter will learn with sadness
the news of her death, which occurred a few days since at the residence of her
father in New York. We copy the following account of her death from the Fulton
Patriot:

"We published in our last the announcement of the death of Mrs. Ophelia Dexter,
daughter of Capt. E. S. Cook, of Gilberts' Mills. Mrs. Dexter had been sick for
several years with varying prospects of life and death before her, and yet,
though young, with otherwise bright anticipations and a hopeful happy nature she
never repined and made others unhappy by continually bringing forward her own
troubles as a theme of thought or conversation. At the last she lay for weeks
unable to move without assistance and yet she was ever thoughtful of those
around her, and more mindful of their needs and comforts than her own. Her
hopeful nature buoyed her up to the last--not that she would recover--but it
carried with it its own sunshine, its own life and warmth. She talked to me as
calmly of the new home to which she felt she was soon to take her departure as
of her other western home which she had left months since never to see again.
The grave had no terrors for her. It was but the passage way to the better,
peceful, painless life, the other side. We saw her a few days before her death
and she talked of the friends who had gone before, of those we knew, dear ever
to be treasured friends--and counted how happy she would be to meet them there.
With a calm and faithful reliance on Him who made the way for us all, she
reached out her hand not in blindness and doubting, but with a soul-satisfying
assurance that she would be lead to the place prepared for her in her Father's
house. She died as she had lived, strong, hopeful and cheery. A younger sister
went before her but a few weeks, and she leaves a husband, two sisters and
parents, for whose coming she will watch and wait in the sunny flowery Land of
the Blessed. May her faith be their faith, her patient wating and freely going
be theirs when the time shall come which brings them down to where the cool
waters of the flowing river lave the shores of the here and hereafter."




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