Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Smith, Andrew M.  January 25, 1883
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Portland Observer – Wednesday, 31 January 1883
Mr. A. M. Smith died Thursday Jan. 25, at him home in Danby.  He passed away 
without a struggle, thought he was seventy two years of age and in feeble 
health and confined to his home he was one of those men whose death causes 
general grief.  He died in the fullest trust in him whose “mercy endureth 
forever.”  The funeral services were performed in the Methodist church, under 
the auspices of the Portland Lodge F. and A.M.  The very universal concourse 
of people who thronged the church with as many more who were obliged to remain 
in the street or return to their homes, but faintly signified the esteem to 
which Mr. Smith was held:  the procession to the grave was the largest we ever 
witnessed.  The Masonic services throughout were performed with marked 
propriety and gravity.  The Universal minister of Portland preached the sermon 
from ____________________as his subject “The importance of the soul.”  His 
exegesis was plain and philosophically sustained.  The family have the largest 
sympathy.



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