Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Sykes (nee Vance), Margaret (Maggie) April 29, 1913
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The Lyons Herald, May 2, 1913
May 2, 1913

Was former Pewamo (MI) girl.  Mrs. Maggie Sykes passes away at Traverse City 
last Friday afternoon.  Funeral held Monday (May 1, 1913) at Grand Rapids (MI).

Mrs. Maggie Sykes (nee Maggie Vance) a sister of Mrs. Wm. H. Patrick, of 
Pewamo, passed away last Friday afternoon at the state hospital at Traverse 
City (MI).  The remains were taken to the home of her sister, Mrs. Leonora 
Myers, at Grand Rapids, where funeral services were held Monday afternoon, and 
interment being made in one of the cemeteries near that city.  Besides the 
brothers and sisters we have already mentioned the deceased leaves two other 
sisters, Mrs. Josephine Terwilliger and Miss Suela Vance, both of Grand 
Rapids, a brother, Samuel Vance, of Denver, Colo., and a daughter, Mrs. 
Sherman Ely, of Lansing (MI).

The tragedy of Mrs. Sykes' life was written many years ago at a time when she 
went down into the valley of the shadow and brought back a beautiful baby 
girl.  When the trembling mite of humanity was placed in the mother's arms 
relatives were horror-struck to learn that the creator had demanded the 
mother's reason for the life given that of the babe.  For some time she was 
cared for by relatives here, but later her condition became such that it was 
found necessary to give her into the keeping of the state.  Our readers who 
knew her in the gladsome happy days of old, will drop a tear in her memory and 
offer a prayer for the repose of one who suffered so much and so long.

(As a side note to the obit - on April 13, 1888 Maggie was sent to the Pontiac 
Asylum in Michigan.  Later she went to the Traverse City State Hospital in 
Michigan.)


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