Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Stout, Martin Luther 1931
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The Ionia County News, Thursday, September 3, 1931


Martin Luther Stout, Orleans grain elevator owner, son of Adam and Jane Stout, 
who died Friday, was born in Sebewa township May 27, 1871.  He was 60 years 
and three months of age.

Mr. Stout was married to Miss Susie J. Warner, March 17, 1897 and to this 
union ten children were born.  Two died, one in infancy, another, Mary Jane, 
on December 24, 1928.

Mr. Stout was in the elevator business for seven years at Barryton, Michigan , 
and twelve years ago moved to Orleans where he continued in the same 
business.  He was a member of the Methodist church at Orleans and for over 35 
years belonged to the Odd Fellows.  He first affiliated with the I.O.O.F. at 
West Sebewa, later became a member of the Millbrook lodge, No. 219.

Mr. Stout leaves his wife, Zelpha Stout; his aged mother who made her home 
with him; three brothers, Nathan, of California, Fred, of Grand Rapids, Clyde, 
of Ionia; a sister, Mrs. Lucy Jordan, of Muskegon, and eight sons and 
daughters; Mrs. Zelpha Clark, of Lake Odessa, Amon Stout, of Belding; Mrs. 
Hettie Holland, of Detroit; Edgar, Martin, Martha, Gertrude and John Stout, 
all of Orleans.

Funeral services were held from the Orleans M. E. church Sunday afternoon.  
Rev. F. P. Frye officiated.  Burial was in the Orleans cemetery.



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