Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Greenwalt, Martin 1928
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The Ionia Daily Sentinel-Standard, Tuesday, May 29, 1928

Again our community is called upon to lay away one of its most honored 
citizens and Civil war veterans.  Martin Greenwalt was born in Washington 
county, Maryland, October 15, 1843, where he lived until the war broke out, 
and enlisted in Company F, Third Regiment of Maryland infantry.  He was 
captured September 15, 1862, at Harper’s Ferry and was held in parole for 
three months, when he was exchanged, and was discharged from service May 29, 
1865.  He came to Michigan in 1868 and for over 50 years has been a resident 
of Palo and vicinity, following his trade of stone mason and plastering, of 
which he was classed as the best in the country.  He was a man of quiet ways, 
and commanded the respect of all of his associates.

Funeral services were held from the Methodist church of which he was a member 
Friday afternoon, conducted by Rev. McGinnis, of Kent City, a former pastor.  
Members of the I.O.O.F. order of which he was also a member attended in a 
body.  As the procession marched to the cemetery, the stars and stripes which 
the departed carried for many years on all patriotic occasions was carried by 
one of our World war boys.  With the passing away of Mr. Greenwalt, only three 
of our boys of “1861” are left in our village, only one of which was able to 
attend the services, at which time he was given a seat of honor.



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