Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Preston, Sarah A. December 2, 1906
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Ionia Daily Standard - Monday, Dec. 3, 1906

                             Mrs. C. A. Preston.
                  ANOTHER HONORED PIONEER AND TRUE WOMAN
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        Passes Quietly into the Unknown Realm Beyond the Confines of Earth.
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Mrs. Clark A. Preston passed quietly and peacefully away at 8 o'clock Sunday 
evening, a week from the time she was stricken. For a few days the friends 
clung to the slight hope offered by the physician that she might rally, but she 
became unconscious Thursday evening, and from that time it was evident that it 
was only a question of days or hours that would bring the inevitable end.

Mrs. Preston could lay claim to being a genuine pioneer, having come to Ionia 
county in 1837 - a date to which not above three in the county can reach back 
in their residence. Mrs. Preston's maiden name was Mary A. Cunningham. She was 
born in Casnovia, Madison county, N.Y., In July 1834. Her father's name was 
Joseph Cunningham. Her mother died when the daughter was very young, and the 
little one was taken into the family of John DeLany, a cousin of her father. 
Mr. DeLany came to Ionia in 1836, and is well remembered by the older 
residents, the last years of his life being passed in the home of Mr. and Mrs. 
Preston . 

Seven children were born to Mr. and Ms. Preston, three of whom survive: Hassie, 
wife of H. G. Thornton; Thad B., manager of the Sorosis Garment company and 
vice-president of the State Savings bank and Miss Nina, librarian of the Hall-
Fowler Memorial library. 

C. A. Preston has passed a life of marked activity in business and politics, in 
this community, a life that is interwoven with much history of the county in 
its early development. Mrs. Preston had the woman's place in this history, 
bearing her share of the burdens, and fulfilling her duties in all the various 
relations, with helpful courage, constancy and devotion that are the woman's 
part to the general history of life. She lived to taste the sweets of the fruit 
of early endeavor; her devotion to family found a proper reward in the quiet 
comfort and serenity of declining years.

Mrs. Preston was a charter member of the Disciple church, organized in January 
1859, and has been an active member during all the years, that included the 
prime of her life. She was also a member of the pioneer society, doing her part 
to keep alive the social attachments and memories of the early year.

The marriage of Miss Cunningham to Mr. Preston took place Jan. 1, 1855, and the 
golden wedding anniversary was appropriately observed Jan. 1, 1905, when 
several hundred of our citizens called to pay their respects and partake of 
their delightfully hospitality. 

Outside of her immediate family she leaves no relatives except a half-sister, 
Mrs. Fannie Rae of York, Neb. 

Funeral services at Church of Christ, at 2 p.m., Wednesday. 

Additional Comments:
Age: 72
Funeral: Dec. 1906
Highland Park cemetery Sec. #7-18


b. Casnovia, Madison Co, N.Y.
dau. of Joseph Cunningham & Sally (Hawley) raised by family of John DeLany

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