Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Fiebing, Sophia 1937
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Monday, June 7, 1937


Mrs. Sophia Fiebing, Muir’s oldest resident, died Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock 
at the home of her daughter, Marie Fiebing, with whom she had made her home for 
several years.

She was born in Yates county, New York in 1842 and was the daughter of 
Charlotte and John C. Nichols.  Mrs. Fiebing would have been 95 years of age 
July 23.  She came to Muir in 1844 when the village was a wilderness and when 
her home here was one of a half dozen in the community.  She was married in 
1885 to Herman Fiebing, who for many years was a shoemaker in the village.

Although Mrs. Fiebing lived a busy life she managed to keep abreast of the 
times and until a few months ago she enjoyed good health with faculties 
unimpaired and with a happy mental condition of optimism.  She was an active 
member of the Church of Christ and Ladies’ aid society of that church and was 
one of those who heard James A. Garfield, twentieth president of the United 
States, when he came to preach in the Muir church of Christ in 1861.  Mrs. 
Fiebing was also the only Muir resident who was present at the dedication of 
the Muir church.

Surviving Mrs. Fiebing are her step-daughter, Marie Fiebing, three nieces, Mrs. 
Lee Barrett of Grand Rapids, Mrs. Nellie Harper of Burlington, Wisconsin, and 
Mrs. Alice Sweet of Battle Creek, one nephew, Clayton Nichols of  New York, 
three cousins, Emerson Boss of Muir, William Pierce and Mrs. Ella Coryell of 
Carson City.

Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the home with 
Rev. Paul Stewart of Ionia officiating.


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