Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Tosh, Jimmy 1911
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Scrapbook of Bessie Townsend, 1911
From the Scrapbook of Bessie Townsend located at the Lyons Museum, Page 44

Publication Unknown - 1911

Once again we are called upon to record the passing of one of our oldest and 
most respected citizens.  Uncle Jimmy Tosh, who has made Pewamo his home for 
the past forty years, was called to the great beyond last Friday morning, 
death being due from old age.  He had been in poor health for some time and 
his demise was not altogether unexpected.  The funeral services were held 
Sunday afternoon from the M.E. church, being conducted by the Rev. W. W. 
Hurd.  Interment in the family lot at Westside cemetery.

Uncle Jimmy was a citizen of which any community can well be proud.  Of sturdy 
Scotch descent he was a vigorous worker long after the time of life when the 
majority of men are forced to quit on account of advanced years.  He was a man 
of splendid integrity, who made and kept countless of friends.  The feeling of 
respect which he created will long remain with us as an inspiration to greater 
civic and personal endeavors.

The deceased, Jas. Tosh was born at Airth, Scotland, September 23, 1826.  In 
1854 he was united in marriage with Helen Gall Prentice, who had two 
daughters, Ellen and Violet, and one son, John.  With his wife and 
stepchildren he took passage in a sailing vessel to Canada, locating at 
Guelph.  Here he entered the employ of the Grand Trunk Railway and moving to 
Michigan became a citizen in 1868.  He continued in the employ of the company 
until disabled by old age.  One daughter, Mary Lishman Tosh, was born to James 
and Ellen Tosh in Guelph, Canada.

There older children having married and taken up residence in Guelph and 
Pontiac, Mich., the little family moved to Spring Lake and thence to Pewamo 
where Mrs. Tosh died in 1881, soon after the marriage of their daughter to 
Ward J. Holly.  Jas. and Ellen were members of the United Presbyterian church 
of Pewamo and were staunch supporters of the work.

Mr. Tosh became a member of Lyons Lodge No. 37, F.&A.M. in 1874 and attained 
the degree of Royal Arch Mason in 1884.  At the institution of Pewamo Lodge, 
No. 405, F.&A.M. in 1892 he withdrew from the Lyons lodge and joined the local 
lodge as a charter member, being identified with that order until his death.  

For the last twenty-four years he has lived at (rest of article torn off).


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