Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Williams, Plyn January 1899
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The Ionia Daily Sentinel, Thursday, January 26, 1899
The funeral service for the late Plyn Williams was held at his home at Prairie 
Creek yesterday.  Rev. E.M. Jeffers and Rev. Dr. Oxtoby took part in the 
service and the singing was by the Misses Pearl Freeman and Grace Allured.

Mr. Williams was one of the Michigan pioneers.  His birthplace was in 
Bennington, County, Vermont where he began life in June 1828.  When he was 
about nine years of age his widowed mother with her children came west by the 
way of the Erie canal to Buffalo, and thence on to Toledo and from there to 
Adrian, in cars drawn by horses.  The first location was in Chester, Eaton 
County, Mich.  Some years after this Mr. Williams lived in Battle Creek for a 
time, and there learned the shoe rink (?) trade, then located in Ionia, Sept. 
1854.  He began his Christian life while a lad and united with the Baptist 
church in 1844.  He brought a letter to Ionia in 1856.  He was elected clerk 
of the church in 1859, and the full time that he has served the church in that 
way is fifteen years.  That work he always did faithfully and it was something 
in which he took great delight.  Last June he was present at a service held 
especially for the aged members of the Baptist church, and spoke feelingly of 
his experiences and of the Christian companions in the earlier days.

He served his country for about one year in the war of the rebellion, and was 
active in G.A.R. work.

His first wife, whom he married in 1858, was a native of England, but came to 
New York when a girl, and to Michigan when a young woman, and the year after 
their marriage settled in Ionia, where she lived the life of a faithful 
Christian mother and devoted wife until her death in 1892.  Their children 
are:  Robert H., of this city; Mrs. Charles Bartlett, of Belding, and Mrs. B. 
S. Bigelow, of Slater, Mo.  These three children and the second wife, kind, 
careful and devoted, remain to mourn his loss.  Mr. Bartlett was present at 
the funeral, but both Mrs. Bartlett and Mrs. Bigelow were detained on account 
of sickness.  There were also present an uncle and an aunt, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. 
Mayo, and the cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mayo, of Barry Co., also Mrs. 
Campbell of Waterford, a sister of the present Mrs. Williams, and from Smyrna 
Mr. and Mrs. Newton Douglas, the latter a step daughter of Mrs. Williams.


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