Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Wilbur, Hannah C. (Burlingham) 1928
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Belding Banner-News, 13 Dec 1928

Mrs. Hannah C. Wilbur, mother of Postmaster J. G. Wilbur, of 213 E. Washington
street, Belding, passed away Monday, December 10, in her ninety-first year,
after nearly three years of patient suffering confined to her bed.  Death was
caused by her extreme old age.

Hannah C. Burlingham was born in Sherburne, New York, July 30, 1838, one of
eleven children.  She was married in 1871 to Gideon Wilbur and moved to
Hamilton, New York.  To this union was born her one and only child, Jesse G.
Wilbur, now postmaster of this city.

The husband passed away in 1885 and in 1890 mother and son came to Michigan,
locating first in Muskegon and later in 1892 coming to Belding where they have
since remained.

Something outstanding in the lives of this mother and son is, that they have
never been separated in fifty-six years except for short periods when Mr.
Wilbur, as a traveling salesman, was out on his route.

When Mr. Wilbur was married he took his wife to his mother’s home and the two
became very much attached to each other, and later the wife passing on, leaving
two children of eight and nine years, Mrs. Wilbur, the grandmother, gave them
the care of a mother.

Four years ago Mr. Wilbur gave up his position on the road and took the office
as Postmaster, that he might be with his mother each day in the remaining years
of her life.  Their devotion to each other was out of the ordinary.

Mrs. Wilbur was a woman of sterling qualities, patient, self sacrificing and
loved by all.  Her passing was peaceful.  She just dropped to sleep.

Besides the son, she leaves a grandson, H. Burl Wilbur, of Traverse City, and a
granddaughter, Mrs. Margaret Wilson, of Hartford, Connecticut; also a sister,
Mrs. Kaet Tefft, of Sarlville, New York, the only surviving one of the eleven
children.

Funeral services were held at the home Wednesday afternoon at two o’clock. 
Burial was in River Ridge cemetery beside the daughter-in-law, according to the
wish she has so many times expressed in the last few years.


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