Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Laphan, Peleg S. 1904
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The Lake Odessa Wave, Wednesday, May 4, 1904


Again we are called upon to chronicle the passing away of another of the 
pioneers of Ionia County—one of the first to set foot in what was then the 
wilds of Michigan.  It was fifty years ago when Peleg S. Laphan and his wife 
emigrated from Ohio and settled on the farm two and a half miles northeast of 
this village. Their first home was a log cabin which they built after clearing 
away a place in the forest, the present home not being built until years 
afterward, and upon this place have they toiled all those years, rearing their 
family of six children, four of whom are living.

He was a highly respected citizen and his death which occurred last Saturday, 
from old age and heart trouble, is deeply mourned.  Mr. Laphan was born in 
Massachusetts on Nov. 30th, 1825 and moved to Ohio, with his parents when a 
boy.  He was here married to Sarah Amanda Hall, afterward moving to Michigan.  
To this union were born six children, three boys and three girls.  Two of the 
former now being dead, there remains beside the widow, three daughters, 
Mesdames Ella Purdun, Elnora Darby and Eugenia Tupper and one boy, William E., 
to mourn his death.  The funeral was held in the Congregational church last 
Sunday, Rev. Skentelbury officiating.  Interment was made in Lakeside Cemetery.


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