Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Johnson, Sarah R. 1918
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The Ionia Standard, Friday, February 8, 1918
Mrs. Sarah Rebecca Johnson passed away at the farm home of her brother, Byron 
Borden, in North Plains Tuesday evening, at age of 69 years.  Deceased was 
born in Ionia City, and had spent nearly all her lifetime in this county.  The 
funeral service will be attended at the above home at 1 o’clock, fast time, on 
Friday afternoon, with burial in North Plains cemetery.

Another Publication, date unknown

The home of Byron Borden, in North Plains, had a narrow escape from 
destruction by fire on Tuesday night.  After the undertakers had finished 
embalming the body of his sister, who passed away a few hours before, Mr. 
Borden went to an upper chamber to retire for the night.  He had been up 
stairs only a few minutes when the cry “fire” was heard, and Mathew Bradley 
and others rushed up stairs and found that Mr. Borden, in lighting a  match, 
had snapped the head off, which flew through space until it fell on a plush-
covered couch, which ignited instantly into a blaze.  The fire was quickly 
extinguished without other damage.



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