Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Storm, John March 1, 1902
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Nan Wheaton wheaton1624@yahoo.com April 5, 2014, 5:01 pm

Portland Observer - Wed. March 5, 1902

JOHN STORM PASSES AWAY SATURDAY.

March 19th Would Have Been 90th Birthday. Had Resided In Danby Since 1841 and 
in Michigan Since 1834. A Long and Honorable Life Ended Peacefully.

John Storm, the oldest parson in this vicinity and one of the oldest in Ionia 
county, died at his home in Danby township, just east of Portland, early last 
Saturday morning. Had he lived until the 19th of the present month he would 
have been 90 years of age. 

Deceased was a native of Cherry Valley, Otsego county, N.Y., where he was born 
March 19th, 1812. The Storm family is an old one in the East, John’s 
grandfather having fought as a revolutionary soldier.

The subject of this sketch came west in 1834 and settled on a farm near Ann 
Arbor. He worked on a farm near that place for $12 per month and then came to 
near Lansing, where he had previously purchased 80 acres of government land. 
This he traded for another which he afterward sold and in 1841 came to Danby 
and settled upon the farm of 120 acres where he died and where he continually 
resided.

Mr. Storm was married to Harriet Moe in 1837; she died in 1887. The marriage 
resulted in the birth of three sons, only one of whom, George is now living and 
with whom deceased had made his home. Mr. Storm had always been a democrat and 
he never voted any other ticket, but he never held office.

Funeral services were conducted from the home where he had lived for more than 
60 years, on Monday afternoon of this week by Rev. Carlisle of the Methodist 
church, under which church influence he was brought up; he, however, never 
identified himself with any church organization as a member. 

He was a kind-hearted, honorable and upright man and the end of his long life’s 
journey was as peaceful and calm as the ending of a summer day. 

During his life, however, he had suffered all the hardships and privations of 
the earliest pioneers of a new country like the one he helped to make one of 
the most beautiful in all, Michigan. 




Additional Comments:
Portland Cemetery # A2-100


File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/s/storm24358nob.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/

File size: 2.6 Kb