Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Millard, Esther E. 1902
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The Belding Banner, Thursday, June 19, 1902
From the Portland Observer:

Two weeks ago Rev. and Mrs. D. E. Millard when to the farm home of her sister, 
Mrs. Martha Maynard, north of town, for a week’s outing.  They had been there 
but a few days when Mrs. Millard contracted a cold which rapidly developed 
into pneumonia, and she was soon in such condition that she could not be 
removed to her home in this village, and she died at 5:30 Sunday morning, 
having far surpassed the span of life which the Psalm says shall be allotted 
man.  The remains were brought to Portland Sunday afternoon.

Esther E. Andrews was born in West Bloomfield, N.Y., March 4, 1825 and was 
consequently 77 years of age last March.  She came with her parents (the late 
Oliver W. and Amret Andrews) to Portland in 1850, the family settling on the 
farm north of town now owned by Mrs. Tillie Andrews.  Here, in April, 1854, 
she was married to her husband who survives her.  She leaves no children.  Two 
sisters also survive her.  Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Westcott (the latter a niece of 
Mrs. Millard) made their home with Mr. and Mrs. Millard and are rally members 
of the family, and upon whom the aged couple have depended very largely for 
help in their declining years.

Rev. and Mrs. Millard came to Portland to make their future home in 1888; but 
before coming here Mr. Millard, as a clergyman in the Christian denomination, 
had filled pulpits at various places, including Jackson, Marshall and Belding, 
and he is extensively known throughout Michigan as a preacher and writer, and 
in this way the deceased had a wide acquaintance; and in the loss of his aged 
companion, whose life had been his for nearly a half century, he will have the 
sympathy of all who know them.

Funeral services over the remains of the deceased were conducted from the 
Methodist church at 2:30 o’clock Wednesday and all the resident pastors took 
part.

While we know that mere words and fulsome praises would be distasteful to her 
even after death, when the best things which are ever said of and for anybody 
are uttered, we cannot refrain from saying that Mrs. Millard was one of those 
women whom to know was to love; one whose thoughts were for others’ comforts 
before her own; whose kindness came from the pleasure of doing and not from 
duty, and this was demonstrated as long ago as the last year of the war, when 
she was assistant military agent for the state to her husband at Washington 
and ministered to the wants of soldiers; whose best happiness was in seeing 
others happy; whose cardinal principle was to “do unto others as ye would that 
others should do unto you;” whose life had been a benediction and whose death 
was but the flight of a soul to the God who gave it.  This is eulogy enough; 
it is all that can be truthfully said of anyone; and the good she did, the 
ministrations she performed, the kind words she poke, the wounded hearts she 
bound up will be remembered in years long to come by those who have tasted of 
her bounty.


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