Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Luscombe, Stillman 1919
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Belding Banner News, 5 Nov 1919

Another pioneer of this city and township of Otisco, passed away on Tuesday 
when Stillman Luscombe breathed his last at his home at about eleven o’clock 
a.m.  The deceased who was 84 years old had been in poor health for a long time 
having suffered several slight strokes of paralysis in the past year.

He had been a resident of Otisco more than seventy years and “Uncle Stib” as he 
was familiarly called was a good citizen and neighbor.  He moved into the city 
from his farm a few years ago.  Besides his wife and daughter, Mrs. Emma Case, 
he leaves two brothers, John B. and Frank Luscombe and one sister, Margaret, 
who resides in the west.

The funeral will be held at the late home Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock with 
interment in the Otisco cemetery.


Belding Banner, 26 Jan 1916

[Transcriber's Note:  This is from an earlier article which gives more 
information about Stillman Luscombe.]

Stillman Luscombe is one of the oldest settlers in Otisco township.  He passed 
his eighty-second birthday last week Tuesday, January 18, and says he is 
feeling first-rate and could do quite a lot of work yet, if his right hand was 
all right.

Mr. Luscombe came here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Horace Luscombe, more 
than 70 years ago, when there were only eight other families in the township.  
The Luscombes stopped with Tiberius Belding until a shanty could be built.  The 
company with which he came forded the river where Broas bridge now is.

Mr. Luscombe says he experienced some pretty hard times in the early days.  He 
moved from his farm last April, after the fire which destroyed his house, and 
bought him a home in the city.

Mr. Luscombe has two sisters and two brothers living – Mary Bevins of Otisco, 
aged 76; Margaret Ferris of California, 74; Frank Luscombe of Otisco, 63; and 
J.B. Luscombe of Eureka, 66.


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