Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Mattison, Zilphia December 8, 1924
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Tuesday, December 9, 1924
Mrs. Zilphia Mattison, one of the oldest and best known residents of Ionia 
county, passed away at the family home 312 Rich street Monday evening, after 
an illness lasting several weeks.  Mrs. Mattison was born in Steuben county, 
New York, August 10, 1840, and was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Valentine Van 
Wormer.  Both her parents were natives of the state of New York and spent 
their entire life there.  Her husband was the late William H. Mattison and was 
reared on the home farm in Rensselaer county, New York.  Mr. Mattison taught 
school for a number of years in his native state and also in Michigan.  Upon 
the three months’ call in 1861 for volunteers to serve in the Union army 
during the Civil war, he enlisted and was drilled with his company for four or 
five days, at the end of which time he received a honorable discharge on 
account o f defective hearing. 

Four years before their marriage Mr. Mattison came to Michigan and located in 
Ronald township near Palo.  Here he went to work as a farm hand receiving $15 
per month.  During the winters he taughte school in the district schools of 
that township and was thus engaged working on farms during the summers for 
three years, at the end of which time he bought a 200-acre farm in the 
township.

Mr. and Mrs. Mattison were united in marriage November 14, 1866.  From the 
time Mr. and Mrs. Mattison took up their residence in Ronald township, Mr. 
Mattison was recognized as one of the leaders of the republican party in the 
district.  In 1876 Mr. Mattison was elected sheriff of Ionia county and so 
capably did he perform his duties that he was re-elected for a second term.  
However, at the close of his term in 1881 Mr. and Mrs. Mattison moved back to 
their farm home in Ronald township.  In 1903 they sold the farm and came to 
Ionia to live.  

Mrs. Mattison was one of the oldest members of Queen Esther Chapter, Order of 
Eastern Star.  Both Mr. and Mrs. Mattison were members for many years of the 
First Methodist church of this city.  Mrs. Mattison was also an active worker 
in the various organizations of the church and Sunday school.

A niece of Mrs. Mattison, Mrs. Robert Sturdevant, and husband, of New York, 
have been staying with Mrs. Mattison for a number of months.  Mrs. Eugenia 
Ackerman, a sister of Mrs. Mattison, came to Ionia to live with her sister 
following the death of her husband.  Mrs. Ackerman passed away a little over a 
year ago.  Mrs. Mattison is survived by one sister, Mrs. C. W. Stanton of 
Cohocton, New York, and two brothers, Emery L. Van Wormer of Eustis, Florida 
and Eugene Van Wormer of Wallace, New York.

The funeral service will be held from the home at 312 Rich street Wednesday 
afternoon at 2:30.  Rev. Charles J. Kruse will officiate.  Burial will take 
place in the family lot at the North Plains cemetery.



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