Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Fraser, Phoebe Ann 1901
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Ionia Daily Standard, 16 Apr 1901

Mrs. Phoebe Frazer

Found Drowned in Her Cistern. – No Idea of Suicide.

Mrs. Phoebe Fraser, and aged and eccentric woman who lived an isolated life on
her little farm a mile east of Prairie Creek pond, was found drowned in her
cistern, at an early hour this morning, by a man who went to the place to do
some plowing.  She was seen about her place on Sunday, so her absence on Monday
created no particular alarm to those who were accustomed to seeing her
occasionally.

The man who went to the farm to do the plowing, after receiving no response to a
rap on the door, entered the house.  Nobody was to be found, but the
surroundings were not in that order they are wont to be after the old lady had
her work done up, so he began to search the premises.  The rotted cover to the
cistern had fallen in, so he bethought him to “fish it,” – filled about
two-thirds full of water.  He was about to abandon this proceeding, when he let
down a rake and pulled the body to the surface.

No idea of suicide is entertained by anyone who is at all advised of her or her
affairs.  It is the quite general belief that she fell in accidentally.  She was
aged 73 years, and was possessed of some property and money.  She was an
eccentric character, though by no means illiterate.  She had for many years done
work at house cleaning, and was known to very many Ionia people in this relation.

Friends came to the city early this afternoon after a coroner.

[Transcriber's Note: There is a notation on the obituary card that she was
buried in Oak Hill Cemetery.]


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