Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Mitchell, William P. 1898
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Ionia Daily Standard, 11 Jul 1898

The Prominent and Respected Berlin Farmer Died Sunday Night.

William P. Mitchell, for 42 years one of the best known and most highly
respected farmers of Ionia county, died last night at the farm home in Berlin,
on which he has lived all these long years.  He had been in failing health for a
year of two, his condition during the six months last past being steadily
alarming.  Disease of the heart was the fatality which carried him off.  He was
aged 63 years, and was the youngest of a family of 11 children, all of whom are
now dead.

William P. Mitchell was born November 10, 1835, at Brownville, Jefferson county,
N.Y.  He was the youngest child of the family, and was but four years old when
the journey was made to Michigan.  He attended the first organized school in his
township, which was situated where the Coon schoolhouse now stands on the
Bellevue road.

Mr. Mitchell was always an industrious and hard-working farmer.  He chopped and
cleared about two hundred acres with his own hands.  He began for himself when
nineteen years of age, but worked very little by the month as he used to chop
and log land by the job.  He bargained for his first piece of land in the fall
of 1854.  It was eighty acres, on the spot where he died, on section 4 of Berlin
township.  He paid about one-third of the cost and went in debt for the balance.
 Clearing five acres of it he proceeded to build a log house, which he completed
in the fall of 1858.

William Mitchell married, March 6, 1859, Louisa S. Crane, a daughter of John W.
and Sarah (Jones) Crane.  Of their four children two are now living: Flora E.,
born January 25, 1860, died in infancy; Frank C., born August 23, 1862; John G.,
born July 31, 1864, died December 3, 1881; Thomas W., born July 31, 1866.

The funeral will be attended from his late home in Berlin Township, some 7 miles
southwest of Ionia, at 1 o’clock p.m. (sun time) on Tuesday, and interment will
be in Saranac.


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