Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Trask, Elizabeth May 14, 1923
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The Ionia County News, Thursday, May 17, 1923
Headlines:   Mrs. L. Trask, Aged Pioneer, Dies Monday
             Lived Most of Early Married Life in the Village of Pewamo
             Is Stricken With Apoplexy Sunday
             Funeral and Interment Will be Held at Sparta Thursday Afternoon

Mrs. L. L. Trask, for many years a resident of Pewamo, died Monday evening at 
her home in St. Johns, following a stroke of apoplexy, which came just as she 
was about to retire for the night.  

For two months or more preceding her death Mrs. Trask had undergone a nervous 
breakdown, but was apparently on the road to recovery, being in excellent 
spirits and strength all day Sunday when she was entertaining members of the 
family at dinner, enjoyed a short automobile ride during the afternoon and 
attended church services in the evening.  Shortly after her return home she 
was stricken and never regained consciousness, passing away just 23 hours 
later.

Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon from the M. E. church at 
Sparta and interment made in the cemetery at that place.

The deceased, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Stretsbury, was born at 
Coldwater, Ohio, June 2, 1847, being nearly 76 years of age at the time of her 
demise.

On September 18, 1865 she was united in marriage to David P. Keister at 
Coldwater, immediately following his return to Ohio from four years of active 
service in the Army of the Cumberland, both families of the contracting 
parties contributing generously to the Union defense, three brothers 
accompanying the young husband on his journey to southern battlefields and the 
father and four sons going from the Stretsbury home, all joining regiments 
recruited in Mercer and Dark counties, Ohio.

To their union were given eight children, John Wesley, who died in 1894, Mary 
Alice Rich, deceased September 14, 1901.  Surviving are Bruce N. Keister, 
Bellevue; Mrs. H. H. Trask, Niles, Mrs. George Miller, St. Johns; Fred D. 
Keister, Ionia; Mrs. E. Phil Bradstrum, Sparta; and David P. Keister, Jr., 
Grand Rapids.  There are fifteen grandchildren living.

Shortly after their marriage they came to Michigan and located for a while at 
Paris, Mecosta county, afterwards going to Pewamo, which remained the family 
home, with the exception of two years spent at Sparta, until the death of the 
husband and father on April 16, 1905.

On June 19, 1920, the deceased was united in marriage at Sparta to L. L. 
Trask, of Aberdeen, Wash., who in the early years following the Civil War was 
a banker and merchant at Pewamo.  In the early eighties he went to Carson City 
and was in the banking business there for several years previous to going 
west.  After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Trask went to St. Johns to live and 
that city has continued their home until the present time.  Mr. Trask, who 
also survives, was himself a veteran of the Civil war, being in his 82nd year 
and unusually active for one of his advanced years.  He will undoubtedly 
continue to make St. Johns his home.

Mrs. Trask was a lifelong member of the Methodist Episcopal church and a 
faithful and loyal worker in the vineyard for over 60 years.  She knew the 
trials of the pioneer life, having migrated with her family from Virginia into 
Ohio before the Civil war, the family having suffered reverses, and pushed on 
west in hopes to recoup their fallen fortunes.  Hers was a lifetime of hard 
labor, devoted to the cares incident to the rearing of a large family through 
the vicissitudes that attended the pioneer families in Ohio and Michigan.

The funeral cortege will leave St. Johns early Thursday morning and will make 
the journey overland to Sparta, the hours of the service being set at 2:30 
that afternoon.


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