Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Estep, Rebecca (Schaffner) (Mrs. Wm. H.) April 26, 1920
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Lake Odessa Wav - Times - April 30, 1920
               SEBEWA LOSES A FAITHFUL PIONEER
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      CAME TO MICHIGAN IN 1852. ALWAYS A KIND NEIGHBOR 
AND FAITHFUL FRIEND.  FUNERAL AT BAPTIST CHURCH WEDNESDAY.
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   Mrs. Rebcca Estep of Sebewa died Monday after an illness of only a few days at
the home of her daughter, 
Mrs. Maud Sowning in Sebewa.  She was the mother of our townsman Byron Estep and the
late Mrs. Russel 
Goodemoot.
   She had been in comparatively good health for one so old through the winter,
being able to come to Lake 
Odessa on Easter, where she spent the day with children and grandchildren at the
Goodemoot home.
   Her life was an influence for good to her posterity and many grandchildren and
several great grandchildren 
will call her blessed.
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                                     OBITUARY
   Rebecca Schaffner was born March 20, 1833, in Crawford Co., O., where she lived
until ten years of age 
when she moved with her parents to Seneca County.  At the age of seventeen she
united with the local M. E. 
church.  She resided in Seneca County until March 25, 1852, when she was united in
marriage to William 
Estep.  They moved to Sebewa, Ionia County, the same spring and located on a farm on
which they lived until 
his death which occurred September 23, 1904.  From then on Mrs. Estep lived with her
daughter on the same 
farm on which they settled in 1852.
   To this union were born five children;  Charles A. Byron M., Ward B., Maude E.
Downing and Dora 
Goodemoot, all of whom survive except the latter.  In the year 1860 she with her
husband united with the 
Baptist church of Sebewa.  She lived a faithful Christian life until her death on
April 26, 1920 at the age of 87 
years, one month and six days.
   She was a kind indulgent wife and mother, a true friend and neighbor, always
ready to assist those in need 
and sympathize in times of affliction.  Many friends and neighbors mingle their
grief with the children now left 
to mourn their departed mother.
   Funeral services were held at the Sebewa Baptist church, Rev. F. M. Early
officiating.

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