Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Williams, Fannie 1873
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The Ionia Sentinel, Friday, April 11, 1873


Fannie, daughter of Albert and Eliza Williams, died at the home of her parents 
in this city on Monday morning, March 31st, 1873, after a painful illness of 
forty-seven days, an illness that she bore with a patient and cheerful 
resignation almost unexampled on one so young.

She was born at Grand Rapids, Mich., May 13th, 1852.  The same month and year 
her parents came to Ionia, where they have ever since resided.  Fannie’s whole 
life has been here with us, and she was well known and universally beloved.  
Possessed of an unusually gay and happy disposition, she was the life and 
spirit of all the social gatherings of the young, who testified their love and 
devotion to her during her sickness and came from all portions of the city 
upon the day of her funeral to pay their last sad tokens of respect and love.

At home she was one who sought out gentle deeds to gladden life and her merry 
ways and winsome presence were the stay and comfort of her parents.  With a 
wit that never intentionally wounded—as cheerful as brilliant—she was the 
light of the home circle, and brought a new loveliness to life wherever she 
went.

She will be sadly missed by her young companions in every place, at school 
where her bright intellect mastered many a difficult problem for them; at the 
social where her innocent fun and frolic added zest to every game; at the 
church and Sabbath school where her presence ever greeted them; at home the 
dearest of all places, where she had grown into the hearts of her friends by 
her unselfish love and kindness to all.  Everywhere among us we shall miss her 
as one whose presence brought pleasure and whose absence a void not to be 
filled.

A sweet maiden, cut off in her blossoming years, she was laid in the grave 
with streaming eyes, and hands that trembled as they placed her there.  In the 
brightness and beauty of her young life she was gone like a spring violet; 
tipped by an untimely frost; but she shall live and blossom again in the 
brighter world above, where beauty never decays, where suffering is not, and 
where pain and sorrow shall never cloud the bright enjoyment of her gifted 
nature.  Trustfully, we resign her to the keeping of Him whose love shall live 
and last for aye.


Additional Comments:
There is a handwritten note on the obituary card that burial was in Oakhill 
Cemetery.

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