Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Walter, Andrew Armstrong February 7, 1924
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Lake Odessa Wave-Feb. 29, 1924

Andrew Armstrong Walter was born May 11th, 1842, at Hancock county, Ohio, and died
at the home of his son and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Walter, 1802 Colorado Ave.,
Grand Rapids, Mich., Feb. 7th 1924, being in his 76th year. Mr. Walter was a second son of
a family of eleven children of which all are living except one sister, Lydia Wight who
died about one year ago in New Mexico. The living are Geo. Walter and Jane Tasker of Lake
Odessa; Salome Post, Melissa Sweiger, Eva Richardson, Eunice Merrill, Alonzo and
Henry Walter all of Clarksville, and one sister, Mrs. Eliza Mock of Barryton, Mich.

At the age of 16 he enlisted in Co. A, 126 reg. O.V.I. at Lima, Ohio, and served 13
months, or until the close of the Civil War. Soon after the was he moved with his parents to
Michigan on a farm near Clarksville. In April, 1870, he was married to Mary E. Barkdull, when
he started a home of his own in the woods in northwest Odessa, where he lived until a
few years ago when he moved to lake Odessa. To this union was born one son and one 
daughter, Wilbur of Grand Rapids and Mrs. Florence Alden of Lansing.

He was a staunch Republican all his life and served his township as Justice of the
Peace for 35 years.

He leaves to mourn their loss, his wife and two children, seven grandchildren, seven
great-grandchildren, three brothers six sisters and a score of other friends and
neighbors, in fact all that knew him.

CARD OF THANKS.
We Wish to thank the friends and neighbors, and all who assisted us in the burial of
our husband and father, Andrew A. Walter. To those that furnished flowers we do feel
truly grateful in this our hour of sad bereavement. Mrs. Mary E. Walter, Mr. and Mrs
Wilbur Walter, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Alden.

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