Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Merritt, Robbins July 1880
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The Portland Observer, Wednesday, July 21, 1880
On Thursday of last week an old gentleman named Robbins Merritt, who lived 3 
miles east of the Danby M. E. church, sat down to tea in his usual health.  He 
did not sit down to the table until after the rest of the family had eaten.  
Nearly the first mouthful he took he threw his head back and died almost 
instantly.  His son’s wife, the only person present, called to her husband, 
who was just across the road.  As she did so he rather indistinctly uttered 
the words, “Abby kiss me for the last time; I’m going.  My time has come.”  He 
gasped twice as his son came in and all was over.  He was in the 74th year of 
his age.


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