Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Moon, Dayton Fremont 1910
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The Belding Banner, Thursday, February 3, 1910
This week death has taken two of our citizens and the old saying that it is no 
respecter of persons is exemplified in the taking away of one in the full 
vigor of middle life and another in ripe old age.  Verily “in the midst of 
life we are in death” and the hour is not known when we shall be cut down.

Dayton Fremont Moon died Wednesday morning of an illness lasting only about a 
week or ten days.  He was taken ill on the streets with vomiting, and Dr. Dutt 
prescribed for him.  He went home, and later his physician, Dr. Bell, was 
called, who found him suffering considerably.  His condition not responding to 
treatment. Dr. Richard Smith, of Grand Rapids, was called Sunday in 
consultation, but considered an operation unnecessary.  Mr. Moon grew 
gradually worse and the end came at 4 o’clock in the morning February 2.  

The deceased was 53 years old last July, and having been born during the 
Fremont and Dayton campaign was named in honor of those distinguished men.  
The old Moon homestead near Cook’s Corners was his birthplace.  He spent a few 
years in the west where he lost his first wife, later returning to Cook’s 
Corners and engaged in trade.  About five or six years ago he, with Mr. 
Potter, came to Belding and located in Smith’s store on Bridge street, 
disposing of it during the past summer.  Recently he had been buying and 
shipping poultry and cream.  Mr. Moon was a man very highly respected and one 
of our best citizens.  

He leaves a wife, two sons, Harry and Kenneth, and two daughters, Grace and 
Bessie.  He was a member of the Odd Fellow lodge in this city and also of the 
Gleaners.  The funeral will be held Friday at his late home at 1:30 p.m.  Rev. 
Edrie Collins will officiate.  

A postmortem was held Wednesday night by Dr. Richard Smith, with all the 
physicians in the city present on invitation of Dr. Bell, which revealed a 
gangrenous condition of the appendix and general diffused peritonitis, from 
which no help could have resulted from an operation before death.  His sudden 
and unexpected taking away is a sad blow to his family, friends and community.


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