Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....English, Amanda 1910
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The Lowell Ledger, April 21, 1910


Amanda Hunt was the third child, and only daughter of Ormond Hunt and Delia 
Noyes Hunt and was born in Hardwick, Vermont, Dec. 12, 1832, and died at her 
South Boston home April 11, 1910.

When four years of age she emigrated with her family from Vermont to Kalamazoo 
where her father followed his trade as shoe maker until March 1837, when they 
moved to South Boston and located in the wilderness upon the farm now owned by 
Robert Young.

Amanda is the last survivor of her family, her elder brother Simeon died in 
Grand Rapids in 1889 and her younger brother Herman who was a soldier in the 
Civil war, died at Nashville, Tenn., in 1861.

Amanda Hunt was one of the pioneer teachers of Saranac and “The Settlement” as 
South Boston was then called.  Dec. 18, 1853, she became the wife of James 
Fuller English.  Two sons were born to this union, Earl Woodman who has 
occupied the homestead since his majority and Bart who died in early 
childhood.  She is also survived by one grandson Louis Glenn, who is located 
at Placer, Oregon, homesteading and practicing law.

Through the filial devotion of their son and his wife Mr. and Mrs. English 
were enabled to spend their declining years at their old home.  Eighteen 
months ago he preceded his wife to the better land and loving hands will bear 
Mrs. English to her last resting place, arrayed in her wedding dress, 
embroidered with her own hands, from the home to which she came as a bridge 
more than fifty-six years ago.

Mrs. English was a charter member of the South Boston Grange.  She was a woman 
of rare executive ability, sterling integrity and untiring industry.  Her 
hands were never idle.  When not employed in ministering to her own household, 
she was fashioning garments of charity or tokens of love.  Many persons prize 
highly gifts of her skilled needle work.

She as an amiable woman of retiring habits and highly esteemed in the 
community.  Her relatives, her friends and her neighbors will hold her in long 
loving remembrance.


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