Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Selleck, Joseph H. February 1897
************************************************
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 June 25, 2010, 2:30 pm

The Ionia Standard, Friday, February 5, 1897
The trainmen on the freight going north from Ionia on Friday morning found a 
man dead on the side of the road near Wood’s Corners.  The body was yet warm 
when found, but life had ceased.  It was identified as that of Joseph H. 
Selleck, of Orleans township.  Selleck was in Ionia on the afternoon of the 
previous day, and left here for Shiloh to attend a Maccabee meeting at that 
place.  He was intoxicated and on this account was not admitted and was 
persuaded by friends there to return home, distant about two miles.  He walked 
down the track apparently, and when almost home lost his footing on an 
embankment, down which he slid a little way, and after floundering around in 
the snow, unable to regain an upright position, came to his death.  When found 
his head was within two feet of the rail.  Justice Maynard, of Shiloh, 
summoned a jury of inquest, which was held at the home of deceased about a 
quarter of a mile west of Wood’s Corners station, where he owned a farm of 40 
acres.  

Selleck joined the Shiloh Maccabee lodge about two month ago, and if claim be 
not contested, the children will have the benefit of a $2,000 policy in that 
order.  His wife died about a year ago; he leaves four children, two boys and 
two girls.

Deceased was 47 years of age.  Funeral was held on Sunday afternoon; services 
at the house at 2, and at Woodard Lake church at 3.  Interment at Woodard Lake.



File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/s/selleck6032nob.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/

File size: 2.0 Kb