Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....McPherson, John April 14, 1897
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The Ionia Standard, Friday, April 23, 1897
John McPherson, who died on April 14th last, was born on March 3, 1842.  He 
left a wife, Ella McPherson, and four children, William, Nettie, Alice and 
John, the youngest being about sixteen years old.  His funeral was held at his 
late residence on Sunday at 2 o’clock and was very largely attended.  

The funeral sermon was preached by the Rev. A. K. Stewart of the M. E. Church 
in Orleans, and was one of the best religious talks I ever heard; it was a 
great pity the residence was not large enough for all to get in and hear the 
discourse.  If the preacher continues to study and think ten years more, he 
will be entitled to the honors of a bishopric in the church, and unless this 
sermon was for him an exceptionally good one, he would even now well fit such 
position.

Mr. McPherson worked the day of his death until the usual quitting time; he 
had been cutting wood about one mile from his house.  On the way home he had 
to stop and rest several times, and on getting to the home he sat down just 
outside on the stoop.  He said nothing to his son William who passed by him 
while sitting.  After resting briefly he went in the house and again sat down 
on the wood box, saying to his wife that he was troubled with wind on the 
stomach.  She at once started to prepare him some medicine; before it was 
ready he again endeavored to walk, but sank upon the floor.  The family lifted 
him upon the bed where he very soon died, without saying anything after his 
remark about wind on his stomach.  His brother Donald, writing from 
Washington, expressed well the general surprise at his death: “His death was 
one of the last and most unexpected things that I looked for.  John was the 
most healthy and vigorous member of our family.”

This same brother very correctly measurers John’s position as a man.  He 
says: “Brother John was a diamond in the rough, as his qualities are sometimes 
expressed; a man of rather large and generous capacities; kind and noble 
hearted when truly known.”


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