Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Sandborn, Columbus 1920
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Publication Unknown, January 22, 1920

After having fought a stubborn but hopeless battle with tuberculosis for the 
past three years, Columbus Sandborn, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Sandborn, of 
Sebewa township, passed away Sunday evening at Boise, Idaho, where he went 
late last July in the hope of recovering his health.  Riley Sandborn, a 
brother, who went to Boise some time ago to work on a ranch, is on his way to 
Portland with the remains.  The body will be buried in the Portland cemetery.

Mr. Sandborn was a bright, ambitious young man and would undoubtedly have had 
a prosperous career had he been permitted to live the allotted time of man.  
Having been born in Sebewa township, February 12, 1896, he was nearly 24 years 
of age at the time of his death.  He obtained his departmental education in 
the Travis district school, in Sebewa, and in June, 1915, graduated from 
Portland High.  Just a week or so prior to his graduation he had a narrow 
escape from drowning, in Grand river, as a result of being seized with cramps 
while swimming, and while his death probably could not be directly attributed 
to this, it is a significant fact that his health began to fail rapidly from 
that time on.

He went to Detroit the following August, where he worked for the Kresge Co. 
and the Chalmers Motor Car Co. in an office position for about two years, and 
in the late winter of 1917 he was advised by his physician to go west for his 
health.  He spent some time in Salt Lake City, Utah, then went to Pocatello, 
Idaho, and then to Roswell, New Mexico.  He had kept growing worse in the 
meantime and in March, 1918, he returned to the home of his parents, in 
Sebewa.  Here a tuberculosis shack was erected for him and he was kept in 
constant contact with the fresh air, which seemed to be very beneficial for a 
time.  However, the disease had obtained such a firm foothold that the nature 
cure soon ran its course and in July Mr. Sandborn went west again in a last 
attempt to conquer the disease, but in vain.  

Only last week Mr. and Mrs. Sandborn received a letter from their son, stating 
that he was feeling much better, but on Monday of this week they got the 
telegram announcing his death, indicating that the end must have come suddenly.

Besides his parents, Mr. Sandborn is survived by seven brothers and one 
sister, Herbert, of Minot, North Dakota, Jacob, of Danby, Riley, who has been 
living for some time at Boise, Idaho, and Lawrence, Allen, Raymond, Melbourn 
and Vera Sandborn, living at home.


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