Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Morse, Mary E. December 28, 1928
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Friday, December 28, 1928
Mrs. Mary E. Morse, who had been in poor health several years, died at the 
home of her daughter, Mrs. H. C. Taggart, Friday morning, at 2 o’clock.  She 
had spent the Christmas season about the home as usual and no change in her 
condition was noted when she retired Thursday evening.  Her death was very 
unexpected.

Mrs. Morse was born of New England stock in Monroe City, Jackson County, 
December 13, 1844.  She came to Ionia when a girl of 16.  She was united in 
marriage to Myron Morse December 2, 1865.  Mr. Morse was a commissioned 
officer in the Civil war and shortly after their marriage they went south 
where Mrs. Morse lived with her husband on the Mexican borderline.  Here she 
saw much of the hardships that came to soldiers and their families.  She also 
came to know well the Mexicans in their various castes.  Her trips to and from 
New Orleans, where the military detachment to which her husband belonged was 
stationed, by the route that was necessary to take in those days took her into 
more of the states of the Union than probably any other woman in Michigan had 
been in at that time.

At the close of the war Mr. Morse was offered a commission in the regular 
army, but he and Mrs. Morse preferred to return to Ionia to make their home.  
Here six children were born, three of whom, Mrs. Taggart and Charles and H. 
Lute Morse, of Ionia, survive.  The family was given her unselfish devotion 
and left her little time for public life, yet she was a close student and a 
great reader.  She was always well posted and able to answer questions that 
arose in the family over topics of the day.  Early in life she established her 
membership in the Methodist Episcopal church and was regular in attendance as 
long as her health permitted.

Funeral services will be held from the home of Mrs. Taggart, 413 State Street, 
Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock.  These, in accordance with Mrs. Morse’s wishes, 
will be private.  Interment will take place in the family lot in Oak Hill 
cemetery.


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