Jackson County MI Archives Obituaries.....Vrooman, Tunis March 4, 1893
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Jackson Citizen Patriot, March 6, 1893
TUNIS VROOMAN DEAD.
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He was an Old Pioneer of Jackson County.

Tunis Vrooman, an old resident of this county, died at his residence in Summit, 
Saturday, of old age.  He was born in Middleburg, Schoharie county, N. Y., and 
would have been 91 years of age the 29th of next April.  Mr. Vrooman came to 
Michigan in the fall of 1835 and located at Jacksonburg, near Summit, on 
section 19.  He was four times married; in 1828 to Hannah Knieskern, of 
Carlisle, N. Y., who died six years after of consumption.  Two years later he 
married Eliza Craig, of Shelby, Orleans county.  She died in 1858, and two 
years thereafter, her sister, Mary, became his wife.  The latter died in 1868, 
and January 26, 1871, he married his fourth and present wife, Mrs. Eliza 
Huggins Freeman, of Jackson.  The deceased leaves six children:  Mrs. Hannah 
Walworth, Moscow, Hillsdale county; Mrs. Olive Brickley, David Vrooman and Mrs. 
Cornelia Goldmith, of Isabella county; Mrs. Melinda Creech, Gratiot county; and 
Tunis Vrooman Jr., of Summit.  Mr. Vrooman's farm consists of 160 acres of 
land, in flourishing condition.  He was a member of the Christian church, as is 
also his wife.  The deceased was a democrat, and he was a man highly respected 
in the community.  The funeral will be held Tuesday at 11 a.m., and the burial 
will be at the Crouch cemetery.

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