Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Millard, Charity D. 1918
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Ionia Daily Standard, 9 & 11 Dec 1918

Lester Millard, living on what is known as “Wall” street in Easton township, was
notified early Monday morning that his mother, Mrs. Charity D. Millard, had just
passed to her reward at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Louvina Winans, at the
country home of Mr. and Mrs. Winans in Clinton county, near Perrinton.

The death of Mrs. Millard, who had reached the advanced age of 103 years,
removes the last connecting link between the first pioneer settlements of
western Clinton and eastern Ionia counties and the present time.

The deceased, who was born September 10, 1914, in New Jersey, was married in
1834 to John A. Millard of that state, and together the young couple came to
Michigan in 1837 and settled in the country known as East Plains in Lebanon
township, Clinton county.  They were the ideal pioneers of that day and age. 
Wonderful, God-fearing men and women, they came into a new land, and from out
the rugged wilderness of the new state they carved for themselves the monuments
of a lifetime of Christian citizenship.  Mr. and Mrs. Millard were identified
with the religious activities of those days, and in an early history of Ionia
county we find an account of them being present at the organization of the First
Baptist church of Pewamo, the meeting being held at the home of Dr. Millard in
that village on January 17, 1851.

Since that day the Millard family, which once boasted of a large settlement in
that region, has practically disappeared from that locality, a daughter, Mrs.
Melvina Finn, at Hubbardston, Mrs. Winans of Perrinton, and Lester Millard of
Ionia being the only surviving members of a family of ten children, six boys and
four girls, born to Mr. and Mrs. Millard.

The funeral of Mrs. Millard will be held Wednesday afternoon from the brick
school house, three miles north of Pewamo, and interment will be made in East
Plains cemetery in the family lot by the side of her husband, who preceded her
to the home beyond in 1884.

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The funeral of Mrs. Charity D. Millard, the 103-years old pioneer resident of
Ionia and Clinton counties, was held this afternoon from the East Plains school
house, the little temple of learning being but a half mile or so distant form
the historic spot in which Mrs. Millard spent the greater part of her married
life.  Her remains were laid to rest in the family plot in East Plains cemetery,
where the most of the pioneer residents of that locality lie buried.


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