Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Eavey, Samuel 1924
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Ionia County News – Thursday, 31 October 1929

Funeral services for the late Samuel Eavey, of Palo, were held from the 
Baptist church in the village last Sunday afternoon, Rev. N. D. Potter, 
pastor, preaching the burial service.

It was such a service as one would expect to witness in this little inland 
village, where the deceased has been known as friend and neighbor these many 
years.  From every part of Ronald Township old time friends gathered to pay 
their last loving respects to the memory of a real pioneer of Ionia County.  
With bowed heads they listened to the pastor, himself visibly affected, extol 
the virtues of a man who came into the township as a mere boy, and who had 
lived in the fullness of this years loved and respected by those who had known 
him in this life.  

With the death of Mr. Eavey a married life of nearly 61 years came to a close –
 almost as a benediction – for he had often expressed in recent months that 
the journey of life was nearing its end and when it finally came would find 
him ready and willing to go forth into that beautiful mystery – the journey 
that ends in the sunrise on the morrow.

His death last Thursday evening October 24, came with a suddenness that 
shocked not only the members of the little family circle, but the entire 
community as well.  During the day he had not been feeling his old self, but 
as there were no alarming symptoms no anxiety was felt as to his condition.  
It was just as he was about to join with the rest of the family at the supper 
table that the hand from another world touched him on the shoulder and with a 
smile he went out into eternity to take his place at another table where the 
viands care of a kind that never perish, and to partake of them is life 
eternal.

Burial was made in the little village cemetery across the way from the church 
where the forefathers of the hamlet sleep.  As the body was being lowered to 
its final resting place the golden October sun broke through the clouds almost 
as a promise that a life so full of earth’s richness would not end at the 
grave but there would have its beginning.

Mr. Eavey was born in Wayne County, Ohio, March 11, 1845, and departed this 
life October 24, 1929, aged 84 years, 7 month and 13 days.  He was united in 
marriage to Miss Viola Mosher, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Mosher, pioneers 
of Ionia County on January 30, 1869, at the home of the bride in Ronald 
Township.  Rev. Stone, pastor of the Woodard Lake Disciple church performing 
the marriage ceremony.  Three children were given to this union, Kittie, Cecil 
and Earl, all of whom with the father having passed away.

Following the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Eavey, they purchased a farm one mile 
west of the Ronald Literary hall, where they resided for 45 years, moving to 
Palo 17 years ago shortly after the death of their daughter, Mrs. Fred Gauss.  
It was with reluctance that they left the farm, where so many happy years had 
been spent but they went to make a home for their granddaughter,  now Mrs.  
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