Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....King, William A. November 29, 1904
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Lake Odessa Times Wed. November 30, 1904

FELL DEAD IN ROAD

WM. KING DIED OF HEART DISEASE TUESDAY.

HE WAS RETURNING HOME

Mrs.Haskell Saw Him Fall and helped To Move Him Into House-Probably Died Almost 
Instantly-Leaves Wife and Two Sons.

The neighborhood around the Tamarack was greatly shocked last  night to learn of 
the sudden death from heart disease of one its most prominent resident, William 
King, who dropped dead while returning from the Myers farm which he and his son 
had recently purchased, and where he  had been working.

He and his son went to the farm in the morning to repair the chimneys on the 
house and to do other repairing and at four o'clock the younger man started for 
home with a load of wood while his father remained and started for home on foot 
about five o'clock. As he got into the road, a neighbor, Mrs.Haskell saw him 
fall to the ground. She and her husband hurried to him, carried him into the 
house and summoned Dr.carpenter from this place but it was of no avail for 
Mr.King probably died instantly.

We go to press too early to give other tan a brief mention of the sad event and 
the obituary will appear next week. deceased was a highly respected citizen of 
this township and worker in the U B Church. He was greatly loved by his friends 
and  neighbors who much regret the loss of a truly good man he was between 50 
and 60 years of age and leaves a widow and two grown-up sons with whom the 
sympathy of the entire community rest, in their sad bereavement.

Dec.7, 1904                     Obituary
William King was born in Seneca Co., O.,March 6, 1847, and was the son of 
Archibald and Elizabeth King. It was in this county that his boyhood days were 
spent and here that he became acquainted with Miss Mary J.Lincoln whom he 
married at Tiffin on January 31st, 1875. They came to Michigan in 1992 and 
settled on a farm southwest of this village which has since been their home. As 
was mentioned in last weeks issue he and his son recently purchased the Myers 
farm of forty acres and were returning from the same when Mr.King was stricken
down.

Mr.King had been almost a life-long Christian and since coming to Woodland 
township, had been a member and an active worker in the U.B.Church.

He was a man of exemplary habits, profoundly respected by his friends and 
neighbors and a man of whom done could speak ill. He was a kind and indulgent 
husband and father, and upon the faithful wife falls the heaviest of the burden 
of sorrow but while she has lost what was perhaps, nearest and dearest on earth 
to her, she still has two stalwart sons who are left to provide for and cheer 
her in the remaining years of her life, and upon them now rests many 
responsibilities, occasioned by the death of their father which they so deeply 
lament.



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