Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Jolly, Samuel S. 1900
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The Portland Observer, Wednesday, July 25, 1900

Headline:  Two Old Soldiers Died Suddenly Past Week
                  Samuel Jolly on Friday and William P. Shay on Sunday
                  Both Members 9th Mich.

Samuel Jolly died suddenly at his home near the water works on Friday morning 
last, aged 66 years.  Lung trouble was the cause of his death.  He had been in 
poor health for several months, but returned a few days ago from a visit with 
his daughter at Grand Rapids, making the trip overland.  He was down town 
Thursday afternoon on some business matters.

Early Friday morning his wife heard a sound in his room as if someone was 
whistling.  She went to the room and found him breathing with great difficult 
and before a physician arrived he was dead.

Deceased had been a resident of Portland for fifty years and was a cooper by 
trade.  He was a veteran of the Civil War and a member of the G.A.R.

Funeral services were conducted from the Methodist church Sunday afternoon by 
Rev. Carlisle.



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