Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Woodworth, George T. 1861
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Greenville Independent, 1 Jan 1861

Obituary.

Died, at Pewamo, Ionia county, Michigan, December 27th, of Pulmonary
Consumption, George T. Woodworth, Esq., of this village, in the 26th year of his
age.

Our village is saddened by the intelligence which reached us on Thursday
evening, by express, of the death of Mr. George T. Woodworth, Editor and
Proprietor of this paper.  His decease occurred at the residence of Mr. Wm. H.
Woodworth, his brother, at Pewamo, Ionia County, on Wednesday evening, the 27th
inst.

Mr. Woodworth came here from Concord, N.H., having been employed in the office
of the New Hampshire Statesman some six years previous to his becoming a
resident of our village, in the year 1857.  He purchased the office of the
Independent in the Spring of 1858.  His uniform deportment, dignified and
gentlemanly bearing, brought him the respect of all who knew him.  While his
sterling integrity and spotless character made warm friends of all who were more
intimately acquainted with him.  His untiring industry, unremitted even when he
had nearly lost the ability to speak audibly, we fear, hastened on the sad event
which it is our painful duty to chronicle this morning.  Our whole community
feel that we have met with no ordinary loss.

We have hoped that his life might still be spared to us; but, that most
insidious disease, Pulmonary Consumption, of which he died, often flatters most
when about to do its worst work.

He leaves an almost heart-broken wife, with whom all our citizen sympathize, and
an infant child, to mourn his irreparable loss.  Rev. C. Spooner, of this place,
conducted the funeral services, at the residence of the brother of the deceased.

For a few days past he failed rapidly in strength.  On Wednesday last, about ten
o’clock, there was a marked change in him, which manifested itself chiefly in
increased difficulty in breathing.  His physician was called in, and upon
examination of the suffering man, he told his sorrow-stricken friends that there
was no hope for him.  When informed of the opinion of the Doctor he expressed
himself, as he had done before, perfectly willing to submit to the will of his
Heavenly Father, in whom he put his whole trust.  About 9 o’clock in the evening
he seemed to lose his consciousness, in a measure, and his breathing became more
difficult until 11 o’clock, when it grew fainter and fainter, and at half-past
11 o’clock a slight compression of the muscles about the mouth and the death
rattle in his throat told that his spirit was released from its earthly tenement.

Mr. Woodworth was an honored and consistent member of the Congregational Church
of this village.


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