Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Granger, Ellen M. (Belding) 1903
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Belding Banner, 18 Jun 1903

Earth Life Ended

Another Pioneer Has Gone to Her Reward.

Mrs. James Granger Passed Away Last Friday Afternoon.

Ellen M. Belding, daughter of Tiberus and Desire Belding, was born on the old 
homestead, two miles west of this city, on July 4, 1845, and died at her home 
in this city on June 12, 1903.

She was married to James Granger on Sept. 8, 1867, who survives her.  Besides 
her husband, she leaves four sons, Frank, Carl, Glenn and Lewis, and also one 
sister, Mrs. Annabell Morse, of Winona, Kansas, and three brothers, Wate 
Belding of this city, and T.B. and John Belding of Groton, South Dakota.  One 
son and one daughter died in infancy.

Mrs. Granger was a charter member of the following societies: Degree of Honor, 
Ladies of the Macabees, Woman’s Relief Corps, Lincoln Club, Otisco Cemetery 
Association, and the Mutual Improvement Club.

She was a founder and past president of the Otisco Cemetery Association and to 
her efforts and untiring energy is due much of the prosperous condition of the 
association and the beauty of the grounds.

She was an interested worker in all that helped to make life better and 
brighter.  She was honest and straightforward in all her dealings, was ever 
kind and thoughtful for the welfare of others, always finding some excuse for 
the shortcomings of human kind.  Those who knew her best knew her worth.  Her 
life was one of sacrifice for others, but, uncomplaining, she sought the good 
of life and tried to live it well.  A good wife, a loving mother and a kind 
friend has gone, and those who had the pleasure of her acquaintance will 
cherish her memory for the good she has done.

Funeral services were held at her home on Front street, Monday, at 10 o’clock 
a.m., when a large number of relatives and friends assembled to pay their last 
respects to one whom the loved and esteemed.  Mrs. Dr. Ferguson sang three 
solos and eulogies were spoken by Mrs. J.H. Dunham of Ionia and Mrs. Luella K. 
Webster of Belding,  Interment in the Otisco cemetery.

Among the relatives and friends from a distance, in attendance at the funeral, 
were: T.B. Belding, of Groton, South Dakota; Annabell Morse, of Winona, Kan.; 
Mrs. J.W. Perrin, of Minneapolis, Minn.; Guy Harrington and wife, of Orleans; 
Moses Holcomb and wife, of Easton; Ed. Snyder, of Ionia township; Mrs. Jonas 
Hadder, of Six Lakes; Norman Putney and wife, of Ronald; and F.E. Ranney and 
Charles Harroun, of Greenville.


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