Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Welch, Nancy 1915 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Marilyn Ransom mlnransom@chartermi.net July 27, 2010, 7:19 pm The Portland Observer, Thursday, September 2, 1915 Mrs. Nancy Welch, mother of John Welch, and grandmother of Ray and Byron Welch, of Portland, died at Ionia last Saturday. She was 96 years of age and the oldest woman in Ionia county. Funeral services were held Monday at Ionia, six of her grandsons acting as pall bearers. Mrs. Welch had lived in Ionia county since 1838 and spent many years on her farm in Easton. She leaves three children, Rev. Vine Welch, of Dakota, John Welch, of Portland, and Mrs. Emory Strong, of Easton. Byron and Ray Welch accompanied by their father, John Welch, attended the funeral at Ionia Monday. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/w/welch7218nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.2 Kb