Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Potts, Alma E. 1928
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Ionia County News, 23 Aug 1928

Pioneer Woman of Lake Odessa Dies in Daughter’s Home

Mrs. Hugh Potts Helped In Clearing Homesite When Indians Were Numerous.

Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon from the Lake Odessa Congregational
church for Mrs. Hugh Potts, 78, who died Thursday night, August 16, at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. Alfred Root, Lake Odessa.  Mrs. Potts was one of the true
pioneers of the village, having with her husband, wrested a home from the wilds
on the shores of Jordan lake when the Indians still roamed through the
neighborhood.

Mrs. Potts and her husband, who preceded her in death a few years ago, during
the days when they were first married had many unusual experiences with the
Indians and many were the tales of the Indians and their activities in that far
day they told from time to time.  It was at the time they were clearing land
that an Indian village still existed near the cemetery at the east end of Jordan
lake and the red-skinned natives were plentiful throughout that entire section
of the county.

Mrs. Potts is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Root, Mrs. Edna Walsh, Grand
Ledge and Mrs. Mattie Scheidt, Kutztown, Penn.


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