Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Hamlin, John February 19, 1876
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Portland Library Scrapbook - February 1876

                             Mr.Tom Hamlin

Mr.Hamlin was a native of New York state and came to Portland with his father in 
the fall of 1843, and he has since resided here.He earned the money with which 
he got his first start in life by teaching school in the old red school house in 
Portland, which or oldest readers will remember. He received $16 per month in 
the suer and $12 per month in the winter, he teaching in the years 1844 and 
1845.Here he earned money enough to buy at $10 per acre, 40 acres of the 120 
which he owned north of town at the time of his death.He quit farming several 
years ago and moved into the village.He was the 73rd year of his age at the time 
of his death.

He was twice married, first to the widow of Nicholas Stilson; and for his second 
wife he married the widow of Wallace Jeffers, who survived him and to whom he 
was married last fall.The deceased was the father of no children, but he had an 
adopted son, Will, of whom THE OBSERVER spoke a couple of weeks ago as having 
been killed at Wooster, Ohio, but about which Mr.Hamlin knew nothing up to the 
time of his death. Mr.Hamlin was a good citizen and an upright, honorable man.

The funeral services will be conducted from his late home and from the 
M.E.Church, of which he was a member, this (Wednesday) forenoon at 10:30 
o'clock, and Rev.French will officiate.

Additional Comments:
Portland Cem.,
Sec.EMD-#32-Row 7

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