Ionia-Barry County MI Archives Obituaries.....Peckham, Samantha April 3, 1937
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The Lake Odessa Wave, Thursday, April 8, 1937
Mrs. Samantha Peckham, mother of the late Mrs. Frank Smelker, died at the home 
of her nephew Walter Wallace in Hastings, Saturday evening where she had been 
for several weeks.  Mrs. Peckham had been a resident of Lake Odessa in the 
home of F. W. Smelker, her son-in-law, for most of the time of two years.  She 
was the widow of Dr. Peckham of Freeport.  After his death she came to this 
place where she made many friends.  For many years she practiced dressmaking.  
She was a loyal member of the local Methodist church and of the Rebekahs.  She 
was a psst noble grand of the latter institution, doing her work at Freeport.  
Mrs. Peckham was born in Mansfield, Ohio in 1859 and came to Freeport 61 years 
ago where she was admired for her retiring, modest, yet capable ways.  She 
often furnished committed readings on programs.

The funeral was held at the Wallace home in Hastings and at the Methodist 
church in Lake Odessa Monday afternoon, with the minister Rev. Leon W. Manning 
officiating and Mrs. Thomas Johnson, Mrs. Ena Armstrong and Mrs. William C. 
McCartney furnishing the music.  Burial was at Lakeside.


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