Ionia-Clinton County MI Archives Obituaries.....Stow, Mrs. F. A. 1924
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The Ionia County News, Thursday, January 17, 1924
Pewamo lost one of its oldest and most highly respected residents last 
Thursday morning when Mrs. F. A. Stow died following an illness of only a 
week.  The funeral was held last Saturday afternoon with Rev. E. O. Mather of 
Lyons Methodist church in charge.  Burial was made in the mausoleum at St. 
Johns.

Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Stow would have celebrated their 61st wedding anniversary 
on January 26.  It was on that date in 1863 that the two were united in 
marriage at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Chubb, in 
Lyons township, by Rev. Courtney Smith, pastor of the First Presbyterian 
church of Grand Rapids.

Mrs. Stow is survived by her husband, Captain F. A. Stow, two sons, Arthur F. 
Stow of Pewamo and George F. Stow of Fowler.  There are three grandchildren.

Mrs. Stow at the time of her marriage was a school teacher and is familiar 
with all the incidents of pioneer life, her parents being one of the first 
families to settle in Ionia county.  Her older sister, Antionette, had the 
distinction of being the first white child born in Ionia county.  Mr. Stow was 
born in Seneca county, New York, April 13, 1831, coming with his parents to 
Washtenaw county in 1835.  After the death of his parents he went to Grand 
Rapids and was employed there for a number of years.  At the beginning of the 
Civil war he was mustered in the state service as orderly sergeant on May 13, 
1861, and mustered in United States service on June 10, 1861, and advanced to 
second lieutenant in July 1861, immediately after the battle of Bull Run.  He 
was promoted to first lieutenant January 1, 1862, and received his commission 
as a captain in October 1862.  Captain Stow was discharged on division 
sergeant’s certificate of disability on March 28, 1863.

He then returned to Grand Rapids and engaged in the grocery business on Canal 
street, locating in what is known as the Collins block.  The next year he 
moved to West Bridge street an continued his business for six years and then 
went to Lyons township, where he remained for one year.  From there he and 
Mrs. Stow moved on the old homestead in Dallas township, Clinton county, two 
miles west of the village of Fowler, where they resided until 1897; when they 
left the farm and removed to their present home at Pewamo.

For a number of years after going to Pewamo, Mr. Stow was a solicitor of 
insurance and succeeded in building up a fine business. His two sons, Arthur 
and George, continued on the old homestead, where George still resides, Arthur 
coming to Pewamo a year or two ago to care for the aged parents, who have been 
in declining health for some time.

Captain and Mrs. Stow lived all their lives as an idea American couple.  
Captain Stow being of that type of citizen-soldier that has had so great a 
part in the building of this republic.  Mrs. Stow had been a wonderful wife 
and mother and the sixty-one years they spent together had been years of gold 
and unalloyed happiness.


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