Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Krieghbaum, Jacob Madison   1935 February 27, 1935
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Ionia County News – Thursday, 7 March 1935
Jacob Madison Kreighbaum was born in Summit County, Ohio, October 2, 1868, 
being one of a family of fifteen children.  When Madison was 19 years old he 
came with the family to Michigan, where they settled on a farm just north of 
Matherton, now the Corey Patrick farm.  He graduated from the Hubbardston High 
School, and after attending the County Normal school at St. Johns, taught in 
the rural schools near Matherton for several terms.  In 1902 he was married to 
Lena Harder, and for 35 years they worked the old home farm.  To this union 
was born one daughter, now Mrs. Mildred Woodworth of Lyons.  Beside his widow 
and daughter he is also survived by two brothers; Andrew of Barberton, Ohio, 
and George of Matherton, and four sisters:  Mrs. Cora Root of Lansing and 
Jane, Emma and Candace of Matherton; also two grandchildren.

For the last eleven years Mr. Kreighbaum lived in the village of Matherton.  
During the last four years he had been in ill health and for the last several 
months, an invalid.  About 1895 he was converted to the Christian life and for 
the 40 years until his death he lived a consistent life of faith.  For over 30 
years he regularly taught a Sunday school class.  In 1929 he became a member 
of the Matherton Methodist church.  He was a lover of sacred music and sang 
the bass in the village choir for many years.  As long as he had a voice to 
sing he used it in the praise and worship of God.

In his physical disability he was patient and uncomplaining.  He passed 
peaceably from this world to the land of endless day, February 27, 1935.  The 
funeral service was held in the Matherton Methodist church on Sunday afternoon 
with interment in the East Plains Cemetery.  Rev. Floyd N. Drake officiated, 
assisted by Rev. Chester Barr.  Mrs. Fred Chick and Mrs. Henry Tabor sang, 
accompanied by Myrtle Reed.



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