Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Stockholm, John C. May 9, 1888
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Greenville Library/ Pioneer Scrapbook pg. 3

The following was read by C.C. Merritt, secretary of the Washington Club, at 
the funeral of the late John C. Stockholm.

Brothers and Sisters of the Washington Club. – We meet here today to express by 
our presence the deep sympathy we feel for an afflicted family, and to mingle 
our tears with theirs over the remains of a loved one. A dark cloud hangs over 
the heretofore bright and happy home, and the shadows of that cloud falls upon 
the heart and home of every member of the Washington Club. Death has again 
entered our ranks and removed from us the happy, genial face of a worthy and 
esteemed brother. His fraternal relations to our club were of the most pleasant 
nature, and he leaves with us only pleasant memories.

Brother John C. Stockholm was born in Fishkill, Duchess county, New York, Oct. 
24th, 1822. He came to Michigan in 1845 and settled on Sec. 33 in the township 
of Eureka, and became one of the pioneer farmers of the country. He lived upon 
his farm for twenty years, and then moved to Cook’s corners and engaged in 
mercantile business, and with his energy and push, with which he was so 
bountifully endowed, built up an extended and prosperous trade, and his by his 
active industry and strict integrity has, for the past twenty-three years, held 
the trade he so well and thoroughly established. 

He was the father of two children, Helen, who died in 1866, aged twenty-one 
years, and Warren, who died fourteen years ago, aged twenty-five years.

He leaves a wife, to whom he has been a devoted husband, a granddaughter, to 
whom he has been more than a father, many sorrowing relatives and a host of 
friends, near and far, who feel that in his death they sustain a great loss. 

As a husband, he was ever devoted; as a father, loving and affectionate; as an 
adviser, careful and judicious; as a friend, faithful and true; as a member of 
the Washington Club, ever loyal to all its interests.

The Washington Club have placed upon the casket of our brother, an anchor- the 
emblem of hope. By this beautiful floral tribute they would express their faith 
in a world beyond these clouds and tears, and their hope of again meeting the 
brother who has passed on to the Great Beyond before us, -  only passed on 
before, - to that bourne to which we are all hastening. 

While we give to our sorrow stricken sister and the bereaved family our deepest 
sympathy and warmest love, we would prayerfully commend them to the perfect 
sympathy and more perfect love of a kind Heavenly Father, who has promised to 
be a Father to the fatherless and the widows’ God.

John C. Stockholm, one of the most highly respected citizens of this township, 
died very suddenly yesterday of dropsy of the heart. He had not been feeling 
very well for a few weeks past, but no one had any idea that it would be fatal. 
Mr. Stockholm came from Eureka, Montcalm county, in 1865, and has been engaged 
in business at Cook’s Corners ever since. He leaves a wife and granddaughter 
and a large circle of friends who mourn his loss sincerely. The funeral 
services will take place at the home of the deceased on Sunday next at 10:30 
a.m. and at the church at 12:00 p.m.

Probably five hundred friends attended the funeral services of the late John G. 
Stockholm, at Otisco, May 13, so widely was he known and beloved. 

The Washington Club, which originated in Grattan, of which he was a member, 
were present from far and near, to testify to their brother’s worth. He was a 
man in a thousand in everything that tends to make this life right and better 
and the life to come supremely blessed. Dear ones are crushed with grief, but 
heaven rejoices at the entrance of one so just and good. The stricken wife and 
grand-daughter have the tender sympathies of all. A son and daughter preceeded 
this beloved father to the better world.




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Otisco Cemetery – Lot #173

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