Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Hawley, Adelia 1881
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The Ionia Sentinel, Thursday, June 23, 1881

Died in Ronald, June 3d, 1881, Mrs. Adelia Hawley, wife of Alpheus Hawley, 
aged 60 years.

Adelia Tuttle was born in Auburn, New York, Feb. 17th, 1821.  But removed in 
girlhood with her mother’s family to Jackson Co., Michigan, when that county 
was almost a wilderness.  In 1837 she married John Lemmon, by whom she had two 
daughters, one of whom died in infancy and the other, Mrs. William Brown, is 
now a resident of Jackson.

In 1851 she was married to A. C. Hawley, of Ronald, Ionia Co., Michigan, with 
whom she lived as a faithful and devoted wife, until her death, and to his 
children, she proved that rare blessing, a judicious, affectionate and 
unselfish step-mother, and their loving care and solicitude during her 
lingering illness showed how fully they recognized her claims upon their love 
and gratitude.

Mrs. Hawley, as a pioneer’s wife, has known many hardships and privations, but 
an unfaltering energy and tireless patience have upheld her, where many would 
have succumbed.  Never robust in health, yet her skill and judgment have 
wrought wonders for the comfort and well being of her family, and to the sick 
about her.  She has truly been a ministering angel.

During the early settlement of the town, when physicians were hardly to be 
procured, she was the willing and judicious nurse of all that were ill and 
suffering, and many a life owes it continuance to her skill and 
tenderness.  “A friend to all who are in trouble,” was a title she won by days 
of toil and nights of weary watching and ere this she has heard the Savior 
say: “Come for I was sick and ye visited me.”  Mrs. Hawley was a member of no 
religious denomination.  In her early life she was a probationer in the M. E. 
church.  But afterwards changed her religious views, but never lost her firm 
trust in God, nor her faith in Jesus as a Savior, and in meekness and self 
sacrifice, she followed Him, as “He went about doing good.”



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