Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....York, Josiah 1908
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The Ionia Daily Sentinel, Thursday, April 9, 1908
Josiah York, an old and well known resident of Ionia county, died Tuesday at 
his home in Sebewa township.  He was at one time a resident of Orleans and 
Easton.  He was 88 years of age.  Funeral Friday, burial in Easton cemetery.

Subsequent Publication:  Wednesday, April 15, 1908

Josiah York, the subject of this sketch, was born on August 1, 1820, in the 
township of Paita county of Ulster, state of New York.  He was married on 
February 21, 1841, to Maria Galligan of PennYan, New York.  Soon thereafter he 
moved with his young wife to Rome, Lenawee county, Michigan, where they 
resided for some years, moving thence to Easton, Ionia county, in 1850, and 
have lived in Ionia county almost continuously since.  They lived most happily 
together for 31 years, the wife passing to the other shore on February 13, 
1872.  He moved to Sebewa in 1880, to make his home with Stephen Lee York, his 
son, where he resided up to the time of his death, which occurred on April 7, 
1908, at the ripe age of 87 years, 8 months and 6 days.

Seven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. York, five boys and two girls.  
Oliver, the eldest, enlisted at Ionia in Co. D., 21st Michigan Infantry, in 
1862, and died 4 months later from exposure, at Bowling Green, Kentucky.  
Caroline (Mrs. W. W. Hanson, of Sebewa), Zachariah, of Ann Arbor, Stephen Lee, 
of Sebewa, Mary (Mrs. W. Curtis of Berlin), Elias, of Sebewa, and Josiah Jr., 
of Pittsburg, Pa.  These six children, 21 grandchildren and 14 great-
grandchildren, survive him, with one sister, Mrs. Louise Knowles of Ionia, she 
being the sole survivor of his family of sixteen.

The funeral service was held at the home where he died, on April 10, at 8:30 
a.m., Rev. Mr. Watrous of the Wesleyan Methodist church officiating and 
interment was by side of his wife in Easton cemetery, situated on the old 
Snell farm, where the Methodist church now stands, and where in the old log 
school which he helped to build, and in which with his wife and children he 
worshiped, and where he for years was a leader in the choir and lived a 
consistent Christian life.  This cemetery was given to the early settlers by 
the owner of the farm, and deceased, with others cut the forest, logged it up, 
and made it a fit place for God’s acre.

Generous to a fault, he would gladly divide his last penny with the needy.  A 
kind and loving husband and father and a good neighbor, he was rewarded in his 
old age by the loving and tender care of his son and wife, Mr. and Mrs. 
Stephen Lee York, who devoted themselves unsparingly to his care and comfort, 
denying him nothing that would conduce to his comfort.

“And they shall be mine saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my 
jewels; and will spare them as a man spareth his own son that severeth him.”


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