Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Livingston, Stillman 1923
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Ionia Sentinel Standard, 14 Feb 1923

War Veteran Answers Taps at Shiloh Home

Stillman Livingston, 86 Years of Age, Held His Courage Unshaken Until End;
Funeral Saturday.

Stillman Livingston, of Shiloh, believed to be Ionia county’s oldest Civil war
veteran died at his home there Tuesday at 10:00 o’clock, after a brief illness
with pneumonia.  Mr. Livingston was 86 years of age, and had been a resident of
Ionia county since 1876, and had lived on his farm near Shiloh since 1877
continuously.  For a year prior to moving to Shiloh Mr. Livingston lived at Muir.

Up until the time when he could look squarely into the face of death Mr.
Livingston maintained his courage and his fortitude.  He refused to take to his
bed until about two days before his death when his son had to lift him from his
chair and carry him to his bed.  When he died his courage never faltered and his
nerve was unshaken.

Mr. Stillman was born in 1836 in Onandaga county, New York, and it was in New
York state that he married Etta Westfall before moving to Michigan.  He ?? for
two and a ?? … ?? York infantry and spending many months amid the awfulness of
confederate ?? Libby, Salisbury and Bell Isle.

His life in Michigan has been that of a farmer, well known and respected in his
community.  His wife preceded him in death a number of years ago, and he leaves
five children, Mrs. John Lee of Ionia, Ernest Livingston, now in the West, Floyd
Livingston, of Shiloh, and Mrs. Vern Judevine, of Palo.

Funeral services for Mr. Livingston will be held from the house Saturday at 1:00
o’clock, and interment will be in Palo cemetery.


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