Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....McCanney, Francis E. 1899
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Ionia Daily Standard, 3, 7 & 9 Oct 1899

James McCanney will leave this evening for Hoxie, Arkansas, where his brother
Francis died a few days ago of Cuban fever.  The remains will be brought to
Ionia for interment.

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The remains of Francis E. McCanney arrived in Ionia at 11:23 this morning,
accompanied by the brother James, who went to Hoxie, Ark., to bring them here
for interment.  The body of the dead soldier-boy was at once taken to the family
home.  The funeral will be attended on Monday morning at 9 o’clock, from the
church of SS Peter and Paul.

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Burial of Francis McCanney.

Funeral services for Francis D. McCanney were conducted this morning, at the
church of SS Peter and Paul, which was well filled by friends of the family. 
Mass and the funeral discourse were by Fr. W.J. Fierle, and the choir music was
noticeably good.  Deceased was a member of a Texas regiment in the
Spanish-American war, and was discharged only a few brief weeks ago, when he
left Cuba for the states, and fell ill while en route.  There were present at
the funeral this morning a complementary representation from the ranks of Wm. H.
Borden post of the G.A.R., and also from the Co. I., 34th Mich., from which last
named body the bearers were taken, viz.: George Fenderson, Perry Cummings,
Ernest Ross, Claude Lane, Rollin Collier, Ira Hopkins.  Interment was in the
Catholic cemetery.


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