Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Gates, Sally  September 28, 1899
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Ionia Standard - Friday, Sept. 29, 1899

Another Berlin Pioneer Joins the Great Majority

Sally, beloved wife of H.P. Gates, died at eleven O'clock last night at the 
farm home where she so long lived, in Berlin township. She died at the ripe age 
of 84 years, and her death was but the timely gathering of a ripened sheaf. She 
came to Ionia county with her husband in June, 1844 - fifty-five long  years 
ago, thus being among the very earliest of the pioneers of this section. The 
husband survived at the age of 87, and it is remarkable that this is the first 
death in the family, their four children being yet among the living. viz: Mrs. 
Lydia Disbrow of Marion, Osceola county; Rev. Zephania Gates of Holten, 
Muskegon county; Clinton Gates, a farmer of Berlin township; and county 
superintendent of poor, David Gates of same township.

The funeral will be attended from the late home at 2 p.m. on Sunday. Interment 
in Saranac cemetery. 

Additional Comments:
Funeral: Sunday, 1 October, 1899
Saranac cemetery #397

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