Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....FRIEND, Lawrence 2000
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THE SEBEWA RECOLLECTOR, Bulletin of the Sebewa Center Association; Volume 35, June 2000, Number 6.  Submitted with permission of Editor, Grayden D. Slowins
Lawrence Friend, 101, widower of Gertrude (Colley) Friend, father of June 
Seiler & Marilyn Powell, oldest & last surviving brother of the late Evelyn 
Courser, Beatrice Curtis, Lucille Todd, Mildred Merrill & George Friend, son of 
Lucy (Halladay) & Ralph Friend, son of Jane E. (Carpenter) & George E. Friend, 
son of Polly Ann (Meacham) & John Friend, son of John Friend, Sr., who 
emigrated from England to Beria, Ohio, with his wife and seven children in 
1833.  John Friend, Jr. came from Ohio to what is now the Knapp/Stank farm in 
Sebewa in 1854.  Lawrence's mother, Lucy A. (Halladay) Friend, was the daughter 
of Mildred (Sears) & Charles Lincoln Halladay, son of Amanda (Lincoln) & Elihu 
Halladay, who also came to Sebewa in the 1850s.  The previous page shows one of 
many obituaries & memorials for Lawrence Friend that were sent to us by 
Patricia Zander, Eugene Courser & others, and we wrote about him in June 1999, 
Vol 34 No 6, when a Frenchman came to award him the Legion of Honor, created by 
Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802.  (Editor's note:  Someone asked why the Halladays & 
Sears were not included in our History of Sebewa Township in the Ionia 
Sentinel.  That story was based on the 40 families present in the 1850 Census, 
and these families did not show up until the 1860 Census.  However Apollos 
Halladay was listed in the 1851 & 1852 Tax Rolls.)
Lawrence was a superintendent at Ypsilanti-Reed Furniture Factory in Ionia and 
Chrysler Lyons Trim Plant, where he retired.  Buried at Sunset Memorial 
Gardens, Ionia.  He leaves eight grandchildren, 23 great-grandchildren, 26 
great-great-grandchildren and hundreds of nieces, nephews & cousins, including 
Kathryn Guy, Ralph Merrill & Ann Slowins of Sebewa.

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