Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Kidd, Florence Sedgwick 1927
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The Ionia County News, Tuesday, July 12, 1927

Mrs. Florence S. Kidd, widow of General James H. Kidd, and mother of Frederick 
McConnell Kidd, died at the home of her sister, Mrs. Adelaide Hudson, 
Cleveland, Ohio, late Sunday afternoon.  Mrs. Kidd had been ill for the past 
two months and for several days it was seen by the watchers at her beside that 
the end was not far away.  Late last week her son received dispatches warning 
him of her serious condition and he immediately departed for the Ohio city 
where Mrs. Kidd has made her home for several years.  He was at her bedside 
when the end came.  

The remains will be brought to Ionia Tuesday afternoon and interment made by 
the side of her husband in Highland Park, almost within sight of the old 
homestead on East Washington street where she spent so many happy years.  Mrs. 
Kidd was one of those charming, gracious women, whose life seemed as a 
benediction.  Her death will come as a great sadness to those friends who knew 
her in life and who will sorrow with the son in his hour of affliction.

Mrs. Kidd, one of the owners of the Sentinel-Standard, was the widow of Gen. 
James H. Kidd, whose death occurred in 1913.  She had been, since childhood, a 
resident of Ionia and a participant in its life for many years.

Florence Sedgwick McConnell was born in New York, April 25, 1853, the daughter 
of Frederick and Julia T. McConnell.  Soon thereafter the family moved to 
Grand Rapids and then to Ionia, where Mr. McConnell was in the hardware 
business for a number of years.  She was a granddaughter of Edward Mundy, a 
member of Michigan’s first constitutional convention, the state’s first 
lieutenant governor and acting governor under Stevens Thompson Mason, and 
later attorney-general and a justice of the Michigan supreme court until his 
death.

Her girlhood, with the exception of four years during which she attended the 
convent of the Sacred Heart in Detroit, was passed in the home of her parents 
at Main and Rich streets.  December 25, 1871 she was married to Gen James H. 
Kidd and lived in the East Washington street home until a few years ago when 
she went to Cleveland to be with her sister.

Surviving Mrs. Kidd are one son, Frederick McC. Kidd, of Ionia, and two 
sisters, Mrs. James B. Hudson, of Cleveland and Mrs. William H. Christian of 
Detroit.


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