Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Moore, Perry N. 1904
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Ionia Standard, 22 Apr 1904

Perry N. Moore, president of the village of Portland, died shortly before 11 
o’clock Saturday evening of pneumonia, after a week’s battle with the disease.  
Around him were his wife, his brothers and nephews, but his last hours were 
passed in a state of unconsciousness.

Perry N. Moore was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Sept. 26, 1844.  As a lad he 
found employment in a factory, but when the war broke out he enlisted in Co. K, 
12th Ind.  At Richmond, Ky., he was taken prisoner but was soon exchanged and 
10 days after his departure for the war he was home on a two week’s parole, the 
result of the exchange.  On the expiration of his parole he went to the front 
and remained with his regiment until the close of the war.  He was with the 
bedraggled army that passed in grand review at Washington after Lee and Johnson 
had surrendered.  He returned to Fort Wayne, but a brother-in-law urged him to 
come to Michigan, and he settled in Portland in 1869.  The same year he married 
Miss Angie Taylor of Sebewa, who survives him.  They had one son, but he died 
many years ago.

For twenty-five years Mr. Moore has filled positions of trust in his township 
and village, having held the offices of clerk, trustee, member of the school 
board, justice of the peace, township treasurer and president of the village to 
which position he was reelected about a month ago.

The funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at 2 p.m. being conducted by 
the Masonic lodge of Portland.  During the hour of the services every business 
place in the village was closed out of respect for deceased.


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