Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Spencer, Frank D. March 13, 1885
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Portland Observer – Wednesday, 18 March 1885
DIED – In Pewamo, Friday morning, March 13, 1885, of consumption, Frank D. 
Spencer, aged 24 years and 5 months.  The funeral services were held at the 
Congregational church in this place, last Sunday, Rev. D. P. Breed 
officiating, assisted by the Revs. I. N. Carman and James Hamilton, of 
Lansing, and under the auspices of the A.O.U.W. of which organization he was a 
member. We clip the following from the Pewamo Plaindealer in reference to the 
deceased:

“The deceased came to Michigan from Massachusetts in 1879.  During a residence 
of several years in Portland, this county, he was an earnest worker in the 
Congregational church.  In the fall of 1883 he removed to Mt. Pleasant and 
took charge of a large boot and shoe store in that village; but ill health 
made it impossible for him to further discharge the duties of his position, 
and he went to Granite Falls, Minnesota, in the hope of improving his physical 
condition.  Getting no relief there, he returned to Michigan and lived with 
his brother, in this village until that terrible disease, consumption, took 
him into that invisible and unknown world, for which he had been patiently 
waiting so long.  From a personal acquaintance with the deceased for several 
years we know him to have been a noble, whole souled person with manly 
principles and an unselfish and undying devotion to his relatives and 
friends.  Besides all this he was fast developing a large ambition which had 
Providence not ruled otherwise must have surely yielded future fruits.  Sad 
that a young life should be plucked on the very morning of its blooming!  Sad 
indeed that his hopes – his aspirations – his all – should be so ruthlessly 
torn from him; but who knows that in the fairer and brighter land he will not 
reap that Heavenly reward one hundred fold; greater than any earthly blessing?”



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