Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Mills, Frances M. 1872
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The Ionia Sentinel, Friday, August 15, 1872


Mills.—In Ionia, July 24th, Frances M., wife of Albert Mills and daughter of 
Phineas Hutchins, Esq. in the 27th year of her age.

Thus has passed away one of the brightest ornaments of society, one who in the 
various relations she sustained as wife, mother, daughter, sister, church 
member and friend, presented in a more than ordinary degree the graces that 
impart beauty to character, and bound her by the strongest ties to the many 
who mourn her loss.  She possessed an active and well informed mind, pleasing 
manners, warm affections, a self-sacrificing disposition and a cheerful and 
hopeful temper.  Her endowments by nature were sanctified and ennobled by 
divine grace.  

At an early period in life she gave her heart to the Savior and thenceforth 
devoted herself unreservedly to the duties of her new calling, and few 
performed them more punctually.  She was always to be found in her place in 
the house of God on the Sabbath, at the evening prayer meeting, and in the 
Sabbath School, of which she was one of the most devoted teachers, except when 
necessarily prevented, in the providence of God.  By her activity and devotion 
she did much to sustain and encourage her pastor and fellow members in their 
efforts to promote the interests of religion.  

Her death-bed illustrated most strikingly the power of divine grace, which 
enabled her to bear her bodily pains without a murmuring expression, to resign 
her husband and child and all who were peculiarly dear to her with submission 
and unfaltering faith in Him who does all things well, and to look with joyful 
hope to her heavenly inheritance and long to be with her Lord.  During the 
last days of her sickness she gave frequent expression to her spiritual 
desires in ejaculatory prayer.  She loved to repeat the promises and lines of 
favorite hymns.  Just previous to her death she uttered the Lord’s Prayer.

Her end, indeed, was peace.  She kissed the various members of her family good-
bye, as going upon a pleasant journey to be rejoined by the loved ones, whom 
she left behind, in the Better Land.

She will not soon be forgotten, and whilst memory recalls her life and 
character, the spontaneous sentiment of every heart will be “Very pleasant 
hast thou been unto me.”


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