Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Tuttle, Jay A. October 27, 1914
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Ionia Standard - Fri. Nov. 6,1914

Jay A. Tuttle, eldest son of James G. and Huldah Tuttle, was born at 
Canandaigua, Ontario Co., Y. Y. January 26, 1847, and departed this life at 
Ionia, Mich., October 27, 1914. His father died when he was 14 years old, and 
two years later he enlisted in the war of the Rebellion in Co. C, 146 N. Y. 
Infantry. He was wounded at the Battle of the Wilderness May 6, 164, and was 
discharged from service, May 29, 1865.

He came to Michigan in the fall of 1868 and to Orleans, this county, in May 
1871, and has resided in this county since that time. He was married to Miss 
Cornelia Post, Oct. 14, 1871 and to this union was born one son who died at the 
age of eight years.

His wife Cornelia died Jan. 6, 1888. He was again married, April 11, 1891 to 
Miss Kate Chadwick of Orleans this county who with their daughter Miss May are 
left to mourn the loss of a kind and affectionate husband and father. He also 
leaves one brother H. G. Tuttle of Bristol Center, N. Y., three sisters, Mrs. 
Marsha Burd of Academy, N. Y. Mrs. S. E. Stanton, Penn Yan, N. Y. and Mrs. Anna 
Butler of South Ionia. The funeral services were very largely attended at the 
residence on Friday afternoon at 1:30 being conducted by Dr. Hoag of the M. E. 
Church. The music was furnished by Mrs. Eugene Smith and Mrs. Harry Spencer. 
The bearers were six nephews, J. N. Butler, D. A. Alexander, A. R. Moore, B. R. 
Moore, N. E. Post and Darwin Post. The G. A. R. and Masons attended in a body. 
The ritualistic services of the G. A. R. being very impressive. There was a 
great profusion of beautiful flowers which gave testimony of a good citizen, 
who so suddenly was taken from their midst. Interment was in the family lot in 
Green’s Cemetery.




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