Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Rumfield, John 1929 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Marilyn Ransom mlnransom@chartermi.net August 27, 2010, 2:10 pm The Ionia County News, Thursday, December 19, 1929 The township of Danby will receive an annuity of $1000 per year for the upkeep of the Danby cemetery according to the will of Mr. Clorinda Rumfield who died three years ago. The annuity will start now on account of the recent death of John Rumfield recently to whom Mrs. Rumfield left a life interest in her property. According to the terms of the instrument Mr. Rumfield was to have the house as long as he lived and the furniture was to be divided among distant relatives, who at the suggestion of Lorenzo Webber agreed to leave the furniture in the house so long as Mr. Rumfield lived. Other bequests were made to friends and relatives and several amounts were allotted for the care of cemetery lots and the erection of memorials to relatives of Mrs. Rumfield. The estate was valued at $12,000 in person property and a farm situated south of Sebewa corners valued at about $10,000. Funeral services for the old gentleman were held from the last residence last Thursday afternoon and burial was in the cemetery endowed by the provisions of the will. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/r/rumfield8864nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb