Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Kimball, Martin 1975
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Ionia Sentinel, 19 Mar 1975

Another Old pioneer Gone.

Martin Kimball, after a brief illness, died of laryngitis, at his residence in
the township of Easton on the 12 inst.  Mr. Kimball was born in R.I. Dec.25,
1804, and when a mere boy went with his parents to the State of Vermont, where
he lived until he came to Michigan in June, 1848.  He came to this State and
county in the prime of life, an active, vigorous man, and carved for himself and
family a home and a fortune out of the raw material of the wilderness.  He
possessed those sterling qualities of mind and traits of character that make
their mark whenever and wherever they live.  A man of strict integrity, honest
and truthful with himself and his neighbor, temperate in his habits and correct
in his deportment, he was an example to all.  Thorough in his investigations and
painstaking in his reading, his mind was a store house of facts, and his
convictions leading him to an immovable judgement, followed the line of his own
careful thought as surely as the needle follows the magnet.  The center of a
large circle of friends and acquaintances who looked to him for council and
advice, Uncle Martin was ever to them like an uncle and to them his death has
left a void which shall never be filled.  During many years of his life he was
an earnest and active member of the Wesleyan Methodists, and as such bore
testimony to a truth that leaves the stamp of eternal life upon its possessor,
and dying has left to his family and friends a legacy of character rich in all
those elements that make life honored and memory revered.

[Transcriber Note:  There is a notation on the obituary card that he was buried
in Oak Hill Cemetery.]


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