Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Eddy (Carbaugh), Elizabeth 1916
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The Portland Observer, Thursday, January 20, 1916

The community of Portland has recently been called upon to spare from its 
midst a number of its oldest and best known residents.  On Saturday morning, 
January 15th, after a brief and seemingly slight illness, Mrs. Elizabeth 
Carbaugh Eddy passed quietly away.

Mrs. Eddy was born in Buffalo, New York May 3d, 1840.  Her parents were 
Fellows Gates and Mary Gates, and with them and her seven brothers and 
sisters, she moved to the Canadian shore of Lake Ontario, when she was aged 
about three, and with them returned to the United States in 1853, settling in 
Michigan, in Orange township, Ionia County.

Here she married Wm. Carbaugh in 1857, and lived in the same township until 
his death, which occurred May 26, 1894, and where they raised a family of 
eight children.  After Mr. Carbaugh’s death Mrs. Carbaugh moved to the village 
of Portland where she remained until the summer of 1899, when she married Mr. 
Zephaniah Eddy of Berlin township and moved there, where Mr. Eddy died two 
years later.

Mrs. Eddy returned to Portland, where she has resided since, with the 
exception of more or less extensive visits to her different children.  Mrs. 
Eddy was of an active, vigorous nature, and to her last days retained her 
exceptional activity of mind; she was of a cheerful and sociable disposition 
and had (what was remarkable in a person of her age) a peculiarly strong 
attraction for the young people by whom she was constantly surrounded up to 
the time of her death.  Her last sickness was of short duration and her death 
was mercifully easy.

Mrs. Eddy was a member of the Free will Baptist church, but her infirmities 
had made it impossible for her to attend church for a number of years.  At her 
death she was aged 75 years, 8 months and 12 days.  The funeral was held at 
her residence on James street 10:30 Tuesday morning.  It is not often that all 
the grown children of a family are all present at the funeral of a parent but 
in this case they all reside in Michigan, and most of them in this county.

Of her eight children one son died in 1889.  The remaining seven are George F. 
Carbaugh, Mrs. Mary Ferguson, Mrs. Emma Whitmore and Grant Carbaugh, all of 
Ionia county; Mrs. Caroline Allerton of Mt. Pleasant, W. J. Carbaugh, of 
Lansing and Mrs. Charles Kent, of Bay City.  These (with their children and 
grandchildren) all gathered Tuesday morning in their mother’s home for the 
last time to pay their last dutiful, but unwilling tribute to the Grim Reaper.


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