Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....PEAKE, Wilbur H. 2001
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THE SEBEWA RECOLLECTOR, Bulletin of the Sebewa Center Association.  Volume 36, April-June 2001, Number 5-6; submitted with permission from editor, Grayden D. Slowins
Wilbur H. Peake, 80, husband of Mary (Simon) Peake, father of Julie West, Betty 
Leyrer, and the late Cindy Peake, brother of Forrest Peake, Margy Moyer and the 
late Lynn Peake, son of Guy & Pearl (Pryer) Peake, grandson of Margaret E. 
(Woodin) & William Pryer, great-grandson of Cornelia Ann (Phillips) & Thomas 
Pryer, who was son of Mary (Inglis) & Merselus Pryer, son of Mary (Van Riper) & 
Casparus Pryer, son of Sarah (Andresson) & Casparus Pryer, son of Johanna 
(Steinmets) & Andreas Pryer, son of Margaret & Thomas Pryer, who emigrated from 
the Netherlands to New Jersey before 1674, and was descended from Thomas Pryer, 
an officer in Queen Elizabeth I's army, who fought in Holland in 1586-1587, and 
whose family had originally gone to England from Normandy Province of France 
with William the Conqueror in 1066.  Young Thomas & Cornelia Pryer settled on 
Frost Road in Danby Township in 1850, altho his brother James took up the Land 
Patent for him in 1835, when Thomas was only 15 years old and an apprentice 
cabinet-maker.  Wilbur farmed the land of Thomas & William & Guy all his life.  
He was a veteran of World War II and was buried in Danby Cemetery with military 
graveside honors.

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