Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Lansing, Andrew Jackson 1913
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The Ionia Standard, Friday, July 12, 1913

The subject of this brief sketch, Andrew Jackson Lansing, was born in the 
State of New York March 29, 1829, and died July 10, 1913, at the home of his 
daughter, Mrs. C. F. Heald, in Middleton, Mich., aged 84 years, 4 months and 
19 days.  In 1848 he was married to Caroline Brizee, in Eagle Harbor, Orleans 
county, N.Y., who died Feb. 6, 1907.

For more than half a century Mr. Lansing was a member of the Disciple church, 
a man of excellent qualities and endearing traits of character, a strong 
advocate of the temperance cause, and was always ready to do what he could for 
its advancement.  He was one of Michigan’s early settlers, having come to this 
state about the year 1857, where he resided, for the most part in Ionia 
county, until his decease.

He leaves to mourn his department four children: Manly B., Mrs. George Kelner, 
Mrs. Charles Heald, and Mrs. Carrie Smith; one daughter, Mrs. Robert Hill, 
having preceded him across the Great Divide.  Besides these there are eight 
grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

The funeral services in the home of his granddaughter, Mrs. W.W. Brooks, four 
miles north of Ionia, took place Saturday afternoon, Rev. C. W. Lyman, of 
Ionia officiating, was attended by a goodly number of relatives, friends and 
neighbors.  Burial was in Higbee cemetery.



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