Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Kilmartin, Rosanna 1902
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Portland Observer, 1 Jan 1902

Rosanna, wife of Jeremiah Kilmartin, died at her home in this village on the 
24th inst. aged 83 years.

Mrs. Kilmartin was born in County Monnaghan, Ireland, March 25, 1818, and came 
to America when but eight years of age with her parents and settled in Rhode 
Island, removing to Webster township, Washtenaw county, Michigan, in an early 
day.  In 1846 she married Mr. Kilmartin, who survives her, and they lived 
together more than 55 years.

Deceased came to Orange, Ionia county, in 1863, from Ann Arbor, and settled on 
section 33.  They resided there upward of thirty years and then removed to 
Portland village, where they have since resided.  The cause of her death was 
malarial fever and neuralgia of the brain.

Besides a husband, now 86 years of age, deceased is survived by the following 
children, Mrs. C. Eagan, Caledonia, Kent county; Patrick, Portland; Mrs. C. 
Cahill, Lansing; Mrs. Michael Moriarity, Danby, Mrs. Frank Peck, Livonia, Wayne 
county, Mish.

Funeral services were held from the Catholic church on Friday last and burial 
made in Portland cemetery.

Mrs. Kilmartin was one of those big-hearted Irish women whose hospitality is 
synonymous of the race and she was a loving wife, indulgent mother and kind and 
obliging neighbor.


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