Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Staley, Lucinda February 1, 1931
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The Ionia County News, Thursday, February 5, 1931
Funeral will be held this afternoon for Mrs. Lucinda Staley who died Sunday 
afternoon at her home south of Lyons following six months of feebleness 
induced by her advanced age.  Ninety two years old, she was one of the 
county’s oldest pioneer residents.  Shock following a fall suffered at 
Christmas time hastened her end.

The services will be held form the Lyons Methodist church and will be 
conducted by Dr. Scott.  Burial will be in the Lyons cemetery.

Mrs. Staley came to Lyons at a time when the entire county and state was still 
a wilderness.  She saw industry developed, forest cleared away for farm land, 
paved highways replace log roads, Lyons grow into a community and Ionia into a 
county.  Born in New York in 1839, as Lucinda Bauger, she came to what is now 
Lyons at the age of 22 in order to assist in the care of her brother, Attorney 
John A. Bauger who was ill.  A year later she was married to Charles W. Staley 
who died April 29, 1909.  She was a member of the Methodist church and 
attended services regularly until her advanced age made further attendance 
difficult.

Mrs. Staley was the last of a family of 10 children.  Her survivors are sons, 
George, who lives on the old homestead, W. E. Staley, of Chicago; W. F. Staley 
of Portland, Ore., and a daughter, Mrs. D. T. Ferguson, of St. Petersburg, 
Florida.



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