Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Pullman, Mary L.  1910
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The Ionia Standard, Friday, February 25, 1910

Mrs. Mary L. Pullman, daughter of Hector and Lucinda Hayes, was born in North 
Plains township, Ionia Co., Mich., Aug. 6, 1840, when those beautiful plains 
were yet unbroken, and the log cabins of the settlers were few.  In such a 
pioneer home Mary spent her childhood.  The light of that home, her gentle 
spirit and modesty, endeared her to all in the community.

Notwithstanding the disadvantages which life on the frontier always presents, 
she overcame all obstacles by her inherent desire for knowledge, and obtained 
a liberal education, becoming a teacher at the age of sixteen, in the school 
where the writer was her pupil, and received her wise precepts and pure 
example.  After fifty years of close acquaintance, memory fails to recall one 
nasty or unkind word.

Her intellectual ability and studious habits won for her a position as 
principal of the Muir school.  She followed her chosen vocation until her 
marriage to Mr. Leroy Pullman, on Dec. 26, 1863.  In this union she folded to 
her heart his motherless child, and again her nobility of character was proven 
by her loving care of this dear daughter, who died at the age of twenty-one 
years.  Three daughters and a son came to bless this home, one daughter dying 
in infancy.

In July 1886, the son passed away just at the dawn of his young Christian 
manhood.  In less than one year the spirit of the husband took its flight to 
the better land.  The loss of husband and son within so brief a time, came as 
a two-fold affliction, but “God was her Refuge and Strength, a present help in 
time of trouble.”

She was baptized by the Rev. Isaac Errett during his first revival in the 
Church of Christ at Muir.  For several years she taught the young ladies’ 
Bible class at North Plains, where her memory is held sacred, for—

	“None know her but to love her.
	None named her but to bless.”

She was ever ready with open hand and loving deed, to promote the cause of the 
Christ she so faithfully served for nearly fifty years.  

She moved with her daughters to the city of Ionia, where she resided for 
nearly twenty-three years, taking membership with the Church of Christ in this 
city.  Richly endowed with the ”Christian graces,” none entered her home where 
peace and harmony prevailed, who did not receive a spiritual blessing.

God called her home Feb. 11, 1910.  “Though dead she yet speaketh” in the 
lives of her daughters, who remain as witnesses to the hallowed influence of a 
life that was “bid with Christ in God.


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