Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Isham, Alfred Reed 1911
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Lyons Herald, 2 Feb 1911

Alfred Reed Isham, one of the oldest pioneers of Montcalm county died at his 
home in Butternut, Monday evening of pneumonia after an illness of only seven 
days.  Mr. Isham was born Sept. 10, 1840 in Ionia county.  He lived on the home 
farm until the death of his mother, which occurred when he was eleven years old 
and he then went to New York and spent some four years with relatives.  He 
obtained a good business education and after his return to this state he took a 
course in “Woodland College,” as he always spoke of it, helping his father in 
clearing land and raising crops.  October 16, 1862, Mr. Isham was married to 
Miss Mary L. Carey.

In the winter of 1864 Mr. Isham entered the army as a member of Company E. 
Twenty-seventh Michigan Infantry.  He was present at the siege of Knoxville, 
took part in the battles of the Wilderness, Cold Harbor and Spottsylvania Court 
house and aided in the siege of Petersburgh where he witnessed the blowing up 
of the fort.  He was present at the surrender of General Lee and took part in 
the grand review at Washington.

He was a member of Julius T. Barrett Post, G.A.R., of Carson City and always 
took an active interest in all the reunions of the old veterans.  He was a 
member of the drum corps and made the post famous at all reunions for the fact 
that it was the only post in the state that could boast of a drum corps 
composed entirely of members that served in the civil war in the same company.  
He was also a member of the national association of civil war musicians.  He 
has been afflicted for several years with erysipelas which he contracted during 
the civil war.

Mr. Isham was a member of Carson City lodge, No. 306, F. and A.M., for over 
thirty-eight years.

He leaves two sons, Will Isham, of Peoria, Ill, and Frank Isham, of Butternut 
and four brothers, J.F. Isham, of Cleveland, F.H. Isham, of Carson City, O.M. 
Isham of Belding, and F.N. Isham, of Oden, to mourn his death.  Mr. Isham will 
be missed by a host of friends.  He always had a good word or joke for every 
one, for no matter how much he was suffering personally, he was always trying 
to bring good cheer to others.

The funeral was held at the Congregational church at Butternut, yesterday at 
10:00 a.m.  Interment took place at the Bloomer Center cemetery.  Rev. D.J. 
Owens, assisted by Rev. N.L. Otis, officiating.


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