Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Sheldon, Dwight C. 1912 May 22, 1912 ************************************************ 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: Pat Blood pat.blood@gmail.com April 3, 2011, 12:30 pm Belding Banner News – Thursday, 23 May 1912 SHELDON, Dwight C. 1912 DOD: Wednesday, 22 May 1912 Belding Banner News – Thursday, 23 May 1912 DWIGHT C. SHELDON Passed Away At Saranac Lake N. Y. Wednesday A telegram to Major Frank R. Chase Wednesday morning announced the death of Dwight C. Sheldon at Saranac Lake, N. Y., where he had been for the past year for treatment. He was thirty-nine years old and was born in Grand Haven. He spent a year at the Michigan Agricultural College and later took a law course in the University at Ann Arbor. He was a resident of this city for seven years and did a successful law practice. After his election as prosecuting attorney of the county he moved to Ionia. Mr. Sheldon was not only a lawyer of marked ability, but of most attractive personality, and with a high reputation for integrity, he was very popular with all classes. His early death cuts short a career of much more that ordinary promise. Mr. Sheldon was married, when only twenty years old, to Miss Dora Chase, daughter of Major Chase of Smyrna. His wife survives him and also three children, Frances, aged fourteen; Flood, ten and Dora, four. The date of the funeral is not yet set. The telegram announced that the remains would leave New York on Thursday, arriving at Ionia, Friday noon. 23 May 1912: Dwight C. Sheldon is At Rest The remains of Attorney Dwight C. Sheldon arrived in Ionia Friday morning on the 9:22 train, and were met by a large number of the Ionia bar, the Elks, county officials, and prominent business and professional men of Ionia. The body was accompanied by Mrs. Sheldon and the three children, and by W. C. Sheldon, the father, and “Bud” Chase the brother of Mrs. Sheldon. On later trains Mr. and Mrs. Edwards of Chicago, sister and brother-in-law of Mr. Sheldon, and Maj. Chase, Mrs. Sheldon’s father, arrived. They were taken immediately to the home of Mrs. V. H. Smith, which had been prepared for them as soon as the news reached there. The funeral service was held Sunday afternoon, many neighbors and friends, and a number from outside the city, particularly from Belding, also attended. The services were in charge of the Elks, and were held from the porch of the V. H. Smith home on North Rich street. The quartette which furnished the music for the service consisted of Drs. L. W. Yates, and C. G. Winchell, E. G. Yates and Thane Benedict. The bearers were Judge Montgomery Webster, Hon. A. R. Locke, attorneys E. M. Davis, H. E. Kidder, H. J. Horrigan and Geo. E. Nichols, all being both members of the bar and the Order of Elks. The service was opened with an anthem by the choir, “Remember Now Thy Creator in the Days of Thy Youth,” which was followed by a prayer by Rev. J. W. Sheehan of Grand Rapids. The quartette then sang ‘Lead Kindly Light” in anthem arrangement. Hon. F. D. M. Davis and Rev. J. W. Sheehan gave excellent addresses and referred in highest terms to the character and worth of the deceased. Among other things Mr. Davis said: “It has been said that the grim reaper loves a shining mark; it certainly has been verified by the untimely taking away of our friend. To those who knew Dwight Sheldon no eulogy is necessary to be uttered. Though handicapped by sickness, never strong physically, nature had overbalanced the defect by granting to him strong mental powers, making him resolute in purpose, righteous in judgment, gentle as a child, yet strong and rugged as a giant against wrong; modest in the extreme, yet bold, fearless and defiant for the right. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/s/sheldon11154nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 4.1 Kb