Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Hickey, Ellen 1904
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Ionia Daily Sentinel, 21 Nov 1904

A Life of Devotion and Self-Sacrifice Ended.  The Funeral Service.

The numerous friends of the late Mrs. Ellen Hickey called at the home Friday 
evening to pay their last sad respects.  The room in which the remains lay was 
filled with beautiful flowers, tokens of sympathy from dear ones who knew her 
great love for flowers, amongst the lot being beautiful pieces from friends in 
Grand Rapids.  The funeral cortege, which left the house at an early hour, was 
perhaps the largest ever leaving the city for such a long journey, many coming 
from a distance of 24 miles to accompany the remains, and other life-long 
friends falling in line all along the plains, making about 100 carriages.

Mrs. Hickey was a native of Ireland, which place, with many others of her race, 
she was obliged to leave at an early age, owing to privations.  She was married 
in Cleveland, and removed from there to Hillsdale, where she lived for a few 
years, after which she came to Hubbardston, where she spent about twenty-five 
years; in which place she suffered the loss of her husband and eldest son.  
With a family of eight small children, eighty acres of uncultivated land, and a 
vast amount of indebtedness, she struggled along, making every payment, no 
matter at what sacrifice to herself and family, thus gaining the respect of all 
who knew her.  Some seventeen years ago she came to Ionia, in which place she 
resided to the time of her death.

Shortly after the death of her beloved daughter, Mrs. E. Nolan of Hubbardston, 
she sustained an injury to her limb which caused much suffering and from which 
she never recovered fully.  She also suffered the loss of another daughter in 
June, (Mrs. Phil Boardman) thus leaving her more saddened during her last 
days.  She leaves to mourn her, Mr. J. C. Hickey and four daughters: Mrs. E. 
Kelly of Grand Rapids, Mrs. M. Sheehan and Misses Anna and Lucy Hickey of this 
place


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