Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Thayer, Walter Hersey September 23, 1914
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Ionia Standard - Fri. Oct. 2, 1914

Walter Hersey Thayer was born in Beloit, Wisconsin, Sept. 12, 1862, and died 
Sept. 23, 1914, at the home of his sister in Chicago where he had gone a week 
before for medical advice. He was the only son of Isaac H. and Eliza Cooper 
Thayer, the family removing to Ionia soon after his birth. Mr. Thayer becoming 
a member of the old mercantile firm of Cooper & Thayer, who did business for 
many years on the site now occupied by the Mason Jewelry Co. 

Walter H. Thayer graduated from the Ionia high school with the class of 1880, 
was for a short time in the grocery business but soon left for the west, where 
he engaged in cattle raising on his extensive ranch near Glenrock, Wyoming. It 
was there his life work was done and strong friendships made, being one of the 
pioneers who by their persistency and effort brought the great west up to what 
it is today. 

He came back to Ionia the winter of 1893, when he married on Dec. 27, Miss Rose 
Wilkins, a niece of Mrs. Wm. Scammell, who returned to the west with him. He is 
survived by his widow and their three daughters, Mrs. Allen Kimball of 
Glenrock, Wyoming, Mable, now attending school in Chicago, and Alice. He is 
also survived by his aged mother, Mrs. Eliza Thayer, his sister, Mrs. Frank 
Spear of Chicago and Mrs. Lambert Hopkins of Chicago, the only child of his 
deceased sister, Minnie, well remembered as Mrs. Chas. Stinchfield of Detroit, 
Mich.

Hear trouble making it impossible for him to continue longer in the high 
altitude of Wyoming, the early family returned to Ionia this early summer to 
live in the old home, hoping the change would be beneficial.

His unfailing kindness to those around him and of a most genial happy 
temperament, those who knew him best mourn him most and reel to the utmost his 
comparative early death. 



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