Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Lapo, Jacob Henry 1923
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Lake Odessa Wave Times, 13 Apr 1923

Jacob Henry Lapo was born in Karl county, Maryland, December 27, 1833 and 
departed this life April 4, 1923, aged 89 years, three months and eight days.  
He had two sisters and two brothers and is the last one to go.  He also had 
three half sisters and two half brothers; one half sister and one half brother 
survive him.

At the age of 14 he came with his mother to Ohio, coming to Michigan in 1855.  
Returned to Ohio in 1857 and married Sarah C. Clarey April 8, 1858 and to this 
union three boys were born.  He came with the wife and two boys to Michigan in 
1863, settling in Sebewa, Ionia county, where Eddie, the third son was born, 
who died in 1875 at the age of four years.

The family lived on their farm in Sebewa until May 10, 1891, when they moved to 
Sunfield where they lived 10 years then moving to Lake Odessa in 1901.  Here 
the wife died February 14, 1909.  Seven years later, Sept. 14, 1916, he married 
Alice R. Plant, who has been a faithful companion in his declining years and 
cared for him thru his months of pain and suffering.  He leaves the wife, two 
sons, George of Portland and Charlie of Lake Odessa, five grandchildren and 
three great grandchildren.

The funeral services were conducted at the late residence on Tupper Lake street 
by Rev. Hatfield of the Sebewa Baptist church of Friday afternoon, April 6.  
Interment in Lake Side cemetery.


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