Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....McMullen, John (Mr.) February 20, 1916
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Lake Odessa Wave - Times - February 25, 1916
               PAST 104TH YEAR WHEN DEATH COMES
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   FUNERAL OF JOHN MCMULLEN, WEDNESDAY, MARKS PASSING OF 
CENTENARIAN WHOSE LIFE WAS BEEN ONE OF REMARKABLE ACTIVITY.
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   John McMullen died at his home here Sunday morning at about 3 o'clock after an
illness extending over 
several weeks.  The funeral, held Wednesday afternoon in the Congregational church,
was well attended.  
Rev. L. L. Steadman preached the sermon, music was furnished by a male quartette
composed of Messrs. 
William and L. T. Gilson, S. W. Dann and William Maher, accompanied by Mrs. Mary
Slossen, and the remains 
were interred in Lakeside cemetery.
   Because of the advanced age (104 years and six months, at the time of his death),
Mr. MCMullen presented 
a figure in local history whose likeness will not be seen for generations.  He was a
native of Pennsylvania, and 
in his boyhood was well acquainted with the McKinley family, and sold iron ore to
the martyred president's 
father.  Twenty-seven years ago he drove through in a double buggy with wife from
Wisconsin to Michigan, 
and has been a resident of this community ever since.
   Perhaps the most remarkable feature of Mr. McMullen's life was the activity that
was his almost until the 
time of his death.  In his youth her acquired not a little fame as a wrestler, and
his physical vigor stayed with 
him long after he ceased to take part in athletic sports   Fishing was one of his
prime diversions, and last 
August, after a heavy rain had spoiled the prospects of his birthday party, he rowed
out on the lake alone and 
made an excellent. catch.  He continued to read entirely without glasses all his
life, although he had much use 
for newspapers and magazines, being a staunch Democrat and one who kept well posted
on all subjects.
   He leaves an aged sister, Mrs. Lucretia Wilson, with whom he lived, to mourn his
loss and many other 
relatives and a host of friends.
   

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