Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Spaulding, Mary Adelia (Crippen) 1927
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Belding Banner-News, 22 Sep 1927

Mary Adelia Crippen was born in North Plains township, Ionia county, Michigan,
April 17, 1842.  Her parents were Silas and Mary Germaine Crippen, who came from
New York state.  A twin sister and her father died in her childhood.  She
married Mont Spaulding, of Skaneateles, New York, April 6, 1864 and continued to
live on the farm her father purchased from the government, until 1874 when they
purchased and moved to the farm home in Orleans township, where they lived until
the health of Mr. Spaulding compelled him to give up active life, they moved to
the village of Orleans, where he died February 12, 1918 and since then she has
for the greater part of the time lived with her son on the home farm.  Of an
unusually cheerful and optimistic disposition, her life was filled with service
to her family and to all the friends with whose lines she came in contact, and
was beloved by all.

She became a member of the North Plains grange in 1872, afterward affiliating
with one in Orleans, and was an honorary member of Belding grange at the time of
her death, and attended the Orleans Farmers club as long as her health would
permit.  She thoroughly enjoyed and appreciated the improvements and progress
made in the world during her long life and bore uncomplainingly the ills of old
age.  She died September 12, 1927.  The funeral services in charge of Rev. H. S.
Ellis, were conducted at the home of a grandson, Roy Spaulding, and burial in
the family lot in Orleans cemetery, amid a wealth of beautiful flowers.  The
pallbearers were Joel, Clark and Robert Palmer and Gaylord Clark, nephews of the
deceased.  She leaves a foster sister, Miss Jennie Crippen, who has helped to
care for her in her declining years, the son, Jerry Spaulding, two daughters,
Mrs. Charles Lambertson, of Belding, and Mrs. Richard Mares of Wheatland, North
Dakota, six grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.


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