Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Stowell, Samuel 1930
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Saturday, March 1, 1930

In the death of Samuel Stowell, who died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. 
Dexter S. Conner, Friday evening after a long sickness, four generations are 
left saddened, the William H. Borden post G.A.R., loses its last charter 
member, and the Masonic order one of the oldest Masons within the state from 
the standpoint of years of affiliation and age, and the entire community is 
grieved.

Mr. Stowell was born in Seneca Falls, N.Y., September 12, 1849, where he lived 
and attended the district school until 15 years of age.  The year of his 
sixteenth birthday anniversary he came to Michigan with his parents, who 
located at Woodland.

At the outbreak of the Civil war he enlisted, and served in the Eighth 
Michigan infantry, and took his first training on the fairgrounds at Grand 
Rapids, which was serving as an cantonment.  In 1863 he received an honorable 
discharge because of disability, and suffered the disappointment of not being 
able to remain in service until the war was over.  He was a charter member of 
the William H. Borden post, G.A.R., which at one time had 450 members, and at 
his death held the office of commander.  He has lived to see the members, one 
by one, mustered into eternity, and only six remain.  These are Lemuel 
Tingley, Capt. C. C. Eyster, Charles Loverin, A. L. Willard, George 
Hulliberger, and Timothy Burtch.

He received the degrees of the Blue lodge in Masonry in Hastings in June, 
1863, making him one of the oldest Masons in this vicinity, and one of the 
oldest in the state.  For a quarter of a century he has enjoyed the 
distinction of having a life membership with the order in Ionia.  He was a 
member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and in both lodge and church was 
counted upon for his reliability and faithful attendance.

He served the state with the same patriotic devotion that he did the nation, 
and in 1881 and 1882 he was the state trespass agent of the timber land of 
Michigan.  In 1883 and 1884 he was the deputy warden at the prison.

Mrs. Stowell died in 1920.  He leaves three sons, Burr and Alanson, of Easton, 
and William, of Ionia, besides the daughter, Mrs. Conner, 13 grandchildren, 
nine great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild.

The funeral services will be conducted by Rev. W. F. Kendrick from the home of 
Mrs. Conner, 715 West Washington street, at 1:30, and at 2 o’clock from the 
Methodist Episcopal church.  The interment will be made in the Easton 
cemetery, in the community which he spent the great part of his life.


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