Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Sunderlin, Alonzo A. 1898
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Ionia Daily Standard, 7 Feb 1898

Alonzo A. Sunderlin was born in Milo, Yates county, New York, on May 28, 1837.  
Alonzo was the youngest of five boys, all of whom are now dead except one, who 
is now a resident of Dundee, N.Y.  In the days of his young manhood he was for 
seven or eight years bookkeeper for a wholesale dry goods house in New York 
City.  In 1862 he came to Michigan locating at East Plains in Clinton county, 
and in 1863 he moved to Hubbardston, where he engaged in the dry goods 
business.  Later he sold this business, and engaged in the flouring mill 
business with ex-Sheriff William Reynolds, in which he was measurably 
successful, but his liking for the store returned and after selling his milling 
interests to Reynolds, he re-engaged in the dry goods business at Hubbardston.  
During the time of his residence there he was active in Masonic circles, and 
was a master of the lodge there.  He was married on October 12, 1864, to Anna 
P. Corey, of East Plains, and to this union four children were born: the 
eldest, a girl, died at the age of eight years.  The three living children are 
Harry E., Ruby L., and Dacie M., who are all at home to comfort the mother.

In his political belief Mr. Sunderlin was an active and devoted Democrat, and 
served his party and his people well in numerous positions of responsibility.  
He was a man of fine clerical ability.  He represented North Plains on the 
board of supervisors, was for four years clerk of Ionia county, and at the time 
of his death was serving Ionia city as a justice of the peace.

Alonzo A. Sunderlin.

Funeral Service and Biography for Deceased.

The funeral service for Alonzo A. Sunderlin was conducted at his late home on 
North Rich street on Sunday afternoon.  Rev. J. T. Oxtoby, D.D., officiated, 
and Mrs. L.P. Brock and Miss Laura Tompkins sang.  The service was attended by 
many friends of deceased and his estimable family – more in fact than could 
gain entrance into the home, and the many flowers on the casket and in the room 
testified in beautiful manner of the esteem in which deceased was held.  The 
bearers were all family relatives, as follows: George B. Caldwell, Detroit; 
E.A. Sunderlin, Lansing; E.A. Sunderlin, Jr., Lansing; Benj. S. Patrick, 
Pewamo; Peleg Corey and W.A. Corey, Muir.  Burial was in Highland Park.

In attendance upon the funeral from out of the city were Mr. and Mrs. Geo. B. 
Cadwell and daughter, of Detroit, the former a national bank examiner; E.A. 
Sunderlin and son, of Lansing, the former a deputy state bank examiner; Mr. and 
Mrs. B.S. Patrick, of Pewamo; Mr. and Mrs. W.A. Corey, Peleg Corey, and Mrs. 
Myrtie Wagar, of Muir.


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