Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Hosford, Samuel O. 1893
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The Lake Odessa Wave, Friday, November 17, 1893
“The last enemy that shall be destroyed” has been very busy in this community 
within the last score of months.  He has taken the aged, weary with the burden 
of years and toil.  He has taken infants unaware of the love showered upon 
them by fond parents, but our village was thrown into deep mourning this 
morning by the announcement of the death of Samuel O. Hosford which happened 
at his residence on Third Avenue this morning at five minutes before 2 
o’clock.  The deceased was taken sick Sunday evening October 8th with typho-
maleral fever and gradually grew worse up to the time of his final demise.  He 
was familiarly known by everyone in and about the county and was a warm and 
persistent friend when he once formed that relation.  The sympathy of the 
whole community goes to the stricken heart of the wife in her great 
bereavement.  Minerva Fullar of Omaha, Nebraska is the only surviving 
relative.  

The deceased will be buried under the auspices of the Masonic and K of P 
orders.  The funeral will occur at the Cong. Church at 12 o’clock Sunday, Rev. 
Arney preaching the funeral sermon.

The deceased was born in Livingston county, N.Y., March 7, 1833, and remained 
there until he was twelve years old, in the meantime he had been pursuing his 
studies taught in the district school, and after the removal of the family to 
this state he continued his studies in Hillsdale county until he was seventeen 
years old.  He then secured a position as clerk in a store at Jonesville, 
where he stayed about three years, then clerked in Hillsdale for twelve 
months.  The gold fever attacked him and going to New York he took passage for 
…(illigible)…..  On his arrival amid the gold fields he engaged in mining and 
followed the pursuit industriously almost 4 years, after which he took up the 
profession of teaching.  For two years he taught and the remaining time until 
October 1864, he devoted to farming.  At that time he returned to New York by 
the water route and came to his parents’ home.  

The following spring the deceased bought property in North Plains township, 
Ionia county, which, after farming three years, he exchanged for a tract in 
Odessa township.  He operated the second estate until 1872, then he engaged in 
mercantile business at Bonanza and divided his attention between the two 
occupations.  Upon giving up his store he gave his time entirely to his farm 
until the fall of 1886, when he was elected county clerk, which position he 
filled until January 1st, 1879.  At the close of his official life he returned 
to the farm and occupied it until 1888 when he moved to Lake Odessa and gave 
his attention to insurance and collections.  The fall after the removal of 
town he sold his farm.  The deceased has been school inspector, highway 
commissioner, secy. of school board and was justice of the Peace at the time 
of his death.  He was a member of the Masonic order and the K of P lodge.  He 
was a man of much public spirit, and toward the advancement and improvement in 
the vicinity in which he lived he done all that was in his power.  The 
deceased was an ordained deacon in the Congregational church.



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