Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Porter, Miranda January 30, 1888
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                    Passed on to the Eternal Life

On the evening of the 30th day of January, 1888, Mrs.Miranda Porter passed from 
West Albion, on to the life eternal, after a pilgrimage of 79 years, 4 months 
and 10 days on this earth.

Mrs.Porter was born in Conway,Mass In early life her parents, with children God 
had lent them-moved to Ontario county, N.Y. Dec.31st 1823. She was married to 
Elkanah Porter, and the following year moved to Barre, now Albion. Father, 
Mother, husband, two sons and one daughter preceded her in the march to the 
heavenly home. She was the last one of eight brothers and sisters to join the 
white-robed hosts. There survive her, three sons and one daughter, Carlos 
D.Porter, with whom she lived and was tenderly cared for in  the evening of her 
days, Myron L. of Knowlesville, George, of Michigan, and Mrs. Esther Stocking,  
the wife of Jared Stocking.

The mother Porter had a large circle of friends as she lived near the old home, 
in the evening of her days, in which she and her husband took up the tangled 
thread of life nearly sixty years ago. Life gradually uncoiled with her.For 
years the messenger was busy inclosing up the avenues through which she 
communicated her thoughts and affections to the world, taking out the tent-pins, 
and pulling down the walls.Eight years previous to her departure the light of 
life gradually went out, still she lived on, in the old shattered tent and was 
watched over and every want was even anticipated by her son and his wife with 
whom she lived, who were faithful in the discharge of every filial affection.

The funeral services over her mortal remains took place at her late home on 
Thursday following her departure, Rev. Thomas Borden officiating. A large number 
of the friends and neighbors gathered to bear their testimony to the wide-spread 
esteem in which she was held.

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