Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Early, Adaline (Loomis) 1897
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Greenville Library Pioneer Scrapbook, 1897
Belding Banner News, 4 Nov 1897

Adaline Early Dead.

Sister of Mary Loomis Passes Away. – Matters Relating to the Estate.

The death of Mary Loomis last week and burial Sunday was followed quickly by 
the decease of her sister, Mrs. Adaline Early, who breathed her last Sunday 
night, a few hours after her sister was laid in the tomb.  As stated last week, 
Mrs. Early came to her sister’s bedside from Chicago when it was certain she 
could not live and on the journey here contracted a cold and was taken sick in 
bed on the very day of her sister’s death.  Mrs. Early has lived in Chicago for 
many years, was 77 years old and was quite wealthy but in feeble health.  She 
is reported to have been worth from fifty to sixty thousand dollars.  It is 
thought that two other sisters and a brother survive them.  The brother is 
Arthur Loomis of Belmont, Iowa, and is now here.  One sister, Mrs. Lucius 
Patterson, the wife of Lucius Patterson, deceased, who is an early day owned 
the first saw mill in this place, is supposed to reside in Grand Rapids, but 
her whereabouts is not at present known.  Patterson was a lawyer well known in 
Grand Rapids, where he practiced, and this place was called Patterson’s Mills 
for a number of years.  The other sister is supposed to be alive and residing 
somewhere in California.

When Mary was informed she could not live, Wm. J. Wilson was sent for and made 
the papers exactly to her liking, she dictating what disposition should be made 
of her estate.  She gave a deed of the farm, consisting of forty acres to her 
sister, Mrs. Early, and made a will of all her personal property, which 
included the four horses, cow, household goods, and farming implements, and 
$868 in cash on deposit in the Belding Savings Bank.  She named Mr. Wilson as 
executor and instructed that she wanted Mrs. Patterson to have $400, her 
California sister, if living, to have $400, and her brother in Belmont, Iowa, 
to have $400.  The decease of Mrs. Early will complicate matters somewhat but 
without doubt she had previously made provision regarding her Chicago property, 
and what she has acquired by the death of Miss Loomis will of necessity have to 
be probated in this county.  Horatio Wilson, the son-in-law of Mrs. Early, who 
has been here from Chicago, desires that the property should be distributed 
among the heirs of the Loomis estate according to her request.  Mrs. Patterson 
of Grand Rapids is over eighty years old and has two sons.  One of them is 
George Patterson, quite well known around here as of a roving disposition and 
addicted somewhat to intoxicants.  It was understood that Mary did not want him 
to have any of her property.  The funeral service was held Wednesday and her 
remains now rest in the Otisco cemetery by the side of her father, mother, 
brother and sister.


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