Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Gilchrist, Annie 1931
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Thursday, September 17, 1931

An illness of heart disease recently aggravated by intestinal flu, claimed the 
life of Mrs. Annie Gilchrist, 787 East Main street, late Wednesday afternoon.  
Although she had been in poor health several months, she had seemed as well as 
usual Wednesday afternoon until she was suddenly stricken in her home.

Mrs. Gilchrist was a retiring woman but perhaps made so by the circumstances 
that surrounded her life of industry.  Those who knew her found in her only 
the most admirable traits, those of unselfishness and charity for others.  She 
was widowed while still young by the death of her husband and left with a 
family of 10 children to rear.  She labored untiringly for her children, kept 
the home together, and until they were old enough to help her, she supported 
them by her own hard work.  A few years ago one of her sons was left with a 
family of three children and the same beautiful spirit that had been 
manifested in her life was again to be exemplified and she assumed their care.

The last few years many sorrowful experiences have come into her life and 
within three years she has been called on to lose by death four immediate 
relatives, two daughters, Mrs. Ward, of Grand Rapids, who died suddenly, and 
Mrs. Powell, of Belding; a sister, Mrs. Mary Wilson, of Detroit, and a 
grandson, Herbert Powell, of Belding, who died a few weeks ago following an 
accident.

Mrs. Gilchrist was born 74 years ago in Drumbo, Ontario, and united in 
marriage to Alonzo Gilchrist September 15, 1874.  She had lived the greater 
part of her life in this vicinity.

Those surviving her are her children, Ralph and Emery Gilchrist, of Ionia; 
Orpha Holmes, Detroit; Fred Gilchrist, of Flint; Mrs. James Holly, of Mt. 
Morris; Mrs. R. B. Dimond, of Flushing; James Gilchrist, of Ontario, Can., 
besides 19 grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs. Ellen Lomery, Brantford, Ont.; 
two brothers, Charles Herbert, of Detroit, and Samuel Herbert, of Birmingham.

The funeral services will be conducted from the Church of Christ Saturday 
afternoon at 2 o’clock.  The burial will be in Highland Park cemetery.  The 
body will repose at the Boynton funeral chapel until Friday afternoon when the 
remains will be taken to the home.


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