Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Sessions, Amasa 1886
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The Ionia Standard, Friday, January 29, 1886
Amasa Sessions, one of the pioneers of this city, died at his residence in 
this city on the 21st instant.  The funeral which was held on Sunday was very 
largely attended.  Amasa was one of a family of nine children, Alonzo being 
the oldest, four of whom are still living, Alonzo and Job and Mrs. J. L. Yates 
residing in this city and county, and John, a resident of New York.  

He was born in Onondaga County, New York, September 23, 1818, and was 
therefore in his 68th year.  He was married in 1838 to Miss Emily Baker, and 
soon after the nuptials emigrated with his bride to Michigan, settling on 240 
acres of land which he had taken of the government on sections 3 and 4, in the 
township of Berlin, this county, which was then dense woods.  Here he made one 
of the finest farms in Ionia county.  He removed to Ionia village in 1969 and 
has resided here since.  

Mrs. Sessions died in 1873, and two years later he was married again to Mrs. 
E. T. Tubbs, of Seneca, N.Y., who survives him.  He early acquired a 
competency from his productive farm and for the past fifteen years has lived 
comparatively at his ease.  He was a man of kindly, sociable disposition, and 
universally liked and respected.  He was honorable in all his business 
transactions and happy is he who can pass the great tribunal with so clean a 
record behind him.


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