Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....McClelland, Emma 1937
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The Portland Observer, Thursday, November 11, 1937

Miss Emma McClelland, 74, a life-long resident of Portland died early 
Wednesday morning at her home on Kent street, following a long illness.  Death 
was attributed to the infirmities of age.  Funeral services will be held at 
the home at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow, Friday, the Rev. Warren E. Brown of the M. E. 
church officiating, and burial will be in the Portland cemetery.  Pallbearers 
will be Wright Wakely, Hugh Derby, Ed Hillis, and Earl Richards.

Surviving are one brother, Samuel McClelland, two nephews, William and Russell 
McClelland, and one niece, Mrs. Lou Richards, all of Portland.  Miss 
McClelland had lived with her brother for the past thirty years.

Emma McClelland was born on March 14, 1863 in the then unincorporated district 
of Portland to William and Sarah McClelland.  The latter was the former Sarah 
Hillis, daughter of another pioneer family.  Emma was the youngest of five 
children, three of them preceding her in death.  John, the oldest, and the 
founder of the McClelland General store, the first established retail store in 
Portland, was the father of William McClelland and of Mrs. Lou Richards, who 
survive.  James, another brother of Emma, was the foster father of Russell, 
also surviving.  Her only sister, Martha, never married, nor did Samuel the 
surviving brother.

In her early days Miss McClelland was one of the foremost business women of 
Portland, through her long connection with the Bazaar and Millinery store, as 
well as with the McClelland General store.  She was a member of the M. E. 
church and of the Ladies’ Missionary society of the church, and prior to her 
illness had always attended faithfully.  She was also one of the oldest 
members of the Portland Grange.

She leaves many sincere friends in all part of Ionia county, who remember and 
esteem her for the work she did as one of Portland’s first and most active 
tradeswomen, and as a member of one of the village’s oldest and best known 
families.


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