Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Harden, William M. 1931
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Carson City Gazette, 7 May 1931

William Harden was born in the State of New York, August 9, 1854, on a farm
between the Genessee River and the Erie canal.  He died at his home in Carson
City, Michigan April 27, 1931 at the age of 76 years, 8 months and 18 days.  Mr.
Harden came to Michigan with his parents in 1866.  For a short time the family
lived near Ionia, but later they moved to a farm in North Shade township,
Gratiot county.  On August 26, 1884 he was married to Mary Ellen O’Connell at
St. Johns church, Hubbardston.  To this union were born three children, Mary,
Louis and Clare.  In 1893 Mr. Harden came to Carson City where he engaged in
business and lived until the time of his death.

The funeral services were held in St. Mary’s church Wednesday, April 29.  Rev.
Timothy O’Connell, brother-in-law of the deceased chanted the requiem high mass
for the dead.  Rev. P.A. O Toole, pastor preached the funeral sermon.  He took
as his text The First Epistle of St. Peter the Apostle Chapter 11-11: Dearly
beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims to refrain yourselves from
worldly desires that war against the soul.  Burial was in the family lot, St.
Johns cemetery, Hubbardston.

Mr. Harden leaves to mourn his loss his widow, one daughter, two sons, one
brother, and several nieces and nephews.


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