Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Gates, Edwin January 12, 1906
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Lake Odessa Wave - Friday January 19, 1906

                                 OBITUARY
Edwin Gates was born in Gates Mills, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, being one of a family 
of ten children, seven brothers and three sisters of whom two brothers and two 
sisters survive him. He lived with his parents until the beginning of the Civil 
War in which he enlisted three times.

In 1865 at the close of the war he moved to Ionia county where he lived until 
his death, Friday Jan., 12, 1906. For the last seventeen years he has lived in 
Lake Odessa.

His chief occupations have been the manufacturing of oats and farming. Since the 
incorporation of the village he has been connected with some of the village 
affairs.

In 1893 he married Miss Ellen Kramer, also of Gates Mills. To this union seven 
children were born, four of whom together with their mother remain to mourn his 
death. Carrie Mathews of Orange, Mich., Nellie M.Colwell and Edward D.Gates of 
California and Claude H. Gates of this place.

He was a member of the local G.A.R Post and a charter member of the Lake Odessa 
tent of Maccabees.

In 1880 he joined the Methodist church in Orange,Mich. He remained a member 
there until his removal to Lake Odessa, and then transferred his membership to 
this church of which he was a member at his death.

The first signs of the disease which finally caused his death appeared in the 
summer of 1903, when he was afflicted with a lameness which was supposed to be 
rheumatism. In the spring of 1904 he went to Mt.Clemens where he took a course 
of twenty-seven mineral baths and came back feeling worse, and made another trip 
to Belding for treatment but not rheumatism, but that the bone tissue was 
affected. Accordingly in October of the time his leg was amputated which seemed 
to relieve the suffering some what for a time but this last spring he was taken 
worse and has been a constant sufferer since Friday afternoon after being 
continued to his bed for a little over a week, his spirit crossed to the Great 
Beyond and his sufferings ended.

The funeral services were held in the M.E.Church Monday afternoon, Rev. J.C.Cook 
officiating, and the remains were interred in the Lakeside cemetery. Those from 
outside who attended were Mr. and Mrs Wm.Gates of Toledo, O; Mr and Mr Isaac 
Brubaker of Benton harbor, Mr and Mrs Byron Risbridger of Hastings, James and 
Elmer Peckins of Lyons and Mrs.Hiram Mathews, Mrs.Rita LaValley and Mrs.Geo. 
Benedict all of Orange.

Additional Comments:
Lakeside Cem.#4-475

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