Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Weiler, Martin 1910
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The Ionia Weekly Standard, Friday, November 4, 1910

Martin Weiler died quite suddenly on Sunday evening, at 9:30.  The news of his 
critical condition on Sunday was a great surprise to many acquaintances, who 
did not know but that he was in the best of health, although his more intimate 
friends were aware that he had been ailing for about two years, and had been 
perceptibly failing for past year.  He had been suffering for two or three 
days, and went home early Friday afternoon, but although still indisposed, he 
returned to the Culver Shoe store, where he had been long employed, about 11 
o’clock Saturday morning, feeling that his services were especially needed 
that day, and worked until 10 o’clock Saturday night.  When he reached his 
home, two miles north west of city, he was near collapse.  He threw the 
harness off the horse, but when he entered the house, he fell into a chair, 
and was assisted to bed by his wife.  He showed no special symptoms of extreme 
illness during the night, but he lapsed into unconsciousness about 5 o’clock 
Sunday morning, and Dr. Ogden was summoned to attend him.  He never regained 
consciousness.  The trouble was diabetes, resulting in uric poisoning.

Martin Weiler was born in Germany 42 years ago, and came to American when 
about 15 years old.  He first stopped in New York, where he worked for George 
Cutler, a distant relative of the Ionia family, where he learned the 
shoemaking trade.  He remained there only a short time, coming from there to 
Ionia county.  For several years he was employed as a farm hand, working for 
Wm. Kitson, Orson VanGiesen, and other farmers in that section.  Later he was 
employed in the freight office of the Pere Marquette road at Ionia for a 
time.  Then he went to work for Geo. Cutler & Son, and has been a familiar 
figure in the Cutler Shoe store most of the time since, broken only by a brief 
interval when he was employed in Grand Rapids.  For the past twelve years he 
has been a fixed attaché of the Cutler store.

He leaves a wife, formerly Miss Dora Witter, whose foster father died only a 
month ago near Plymouth, this state; and also one child, Louise, six or seven 
years old.

Five years ago he bought a place of five or six acres, on the Yeomans road, 
and had spent such time as he could in outdoor work.

Mr. Weiler was a man of strict probity of character, faithful to his 
engagements, of genial disposition, generally well liked, and in every respect 
a good citizen.

Card of Thanks:  We wish to thank the Brotherhood of Elks—especially those 
brothers who stood guard the last few hours, our neighbors and friends, for 
their kindness and sympathy; also for the many floral offerings given us at 
the time of our bereavement in the loss of dear husband and father.

Mrs. Martin Weiler
Louise Weiler


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