Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Lantis, James 1916
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The Ionia Daily Sentinel, Monday, June 12, 1916

The funeral services for James Lantis were held from the home on Adams street 
Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock.   The services were conducted by the pastor of 
the Methodist Episcopal church of which he was a member.  The bearers were J. 
L. Fowler, Julius Taubert, Robt. Carpenter, L. Tingley, Geo. Pettingill and W. 
E. Normington.  Interment was in Highland Park cemetery.

James Lantis was born at Rockland, Pa. Feb. 9, 1831, and was the third son of 
Jacob and Lydia Lantis.  The family moved to Michigan in …(illegible)…and 
settled in Jackson county, at Waterloo.  It was here that James Lantis grew to 
manhood and at the age of 24 married Miss Lucy Reed at Jackson.  Three 
children were born to this couple, J. Adelbert of Glochester, Mass., Mrs. Cora 
Coldburgh of Rochester, M.Y., and Arthur of Denver, Co.  Mrs. Lantis died in 
1884 in Rochester, N.Y.  Mr. Lantis was married to Mrs. Jane Vincent of Ionia 
and to this marriage two children were born, Mrs. Fred Sayers of Lake county, 
Mich.; Roy, deceased  at the age of …(illegible)….years.  Mr. Lantis lost his 
wife in death in…(illegible)…  On July….(illegible)…he was married to Mrs. C. 
E. Ennis at Ionia, who survives.

Mr. Lantis enlisted in the army nearly at the beginning of the rebellion and 
was discharged at the close of the war, returning to Michigan, a few months 
later coming to Ionia, where he has since resided.  His health failed about a 
year and a half ago and for nearly a year he has been confined to the house.  
On the 9th of June he died, leaving a widow and….(illegible)….children.



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