Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Jersey, Edgar W. 1931
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Belding Banner-News, 9 Apr 1931

Death Takes Pioneer Resident Here

Took Part in Former Big Business of Running Logs Down River.

Edgar W. Jersey was born in Romeo, Michigan November 22, 1852.  At the age of 12
he moved by team with his father, Peter Jersey, and mother, 5 brothers:  Henry,
Albert, Peter, Frank and Will and one sister Alice, to a farm on the east side
of Flat river just south of River Ridge cemetery, known as the Watson farm and
later bought a farm north of the Smyrna bridge on the east side of Flat river
where the family lived for many years, attending school at Smyrna, and later the
six boys were all members of the Belding band.

In 1876 he was married to Ida Madden, at Orleans, Michigan, and moved into their
present home on Broas street where they have always lived, and three daughters
and two sons were born:  Bertha, who died 4 years of age; Ethel, of Flint, and
Lester, of Lansing.  Only one brother remains, Henry, who was the oldest, and is
now past 80, but enjoying the best of health and practicing law in Lansing.

Ed, as he was well known to his Belding friends, spent all his life in the open
working in the woods cutting timber in the winters and running logs down Flat
river in the spring.  He helped drive every run of logs coming down Flat river
and when it came to using an axe or saw, or riding a saw log he did not have to
take a back seat for the best.  Since 1898 he has spent his summers and falls in
the upper peninsula where he spent many happy days raising gardens, flowers,
hunting and fishing, having hunted deer for over 50 falls without missing a fall
and having a record of killing 3 deer with one shot from his rifle.

In the summer of 1926 his health began to fail and he left the woods in
September, never to return again, but just before the big saws and mills began
cutting the vast tract of hardwood he loved so well.  He was a charter member of
the Independent Order of Odd Fellow lodge 447 and a very active member, having
filled all the chairs of the order and friendship, love and truth and their
ritual was his religion.

Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at the house, Rev. H. S. Ellis
officiating, and burial was in River Ridge cemetery.  The Odd Fellows had charge
of the services at the grave.


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