Kent County MI Archives Obituaries.....Gould-Myers, Amy Benton May 1, 1903
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PASSING OF A PIONEER Amy Benton Myers is Dead After Useful and Successful Life.
Amy Benton Myers, one of the oldest residents of northern Kent county and a
widely known woman is dead. After a career of usefulness and earnest Christian
endeavor she succumbed to old age and passed away Friday afternoon at the home
of her daughter. Mrs. Henrietta Hilton, corner of Nash and Pleasant streets. The
funeral was held in the Methodist church Monday afternoon, the Rev. Joseph F.
Peschmann delivering the sermon. The burial took place in the cemetery on the
other side of the river. Amy Benton Gould was born in the state of New York June
25, 1819. In 1825 she came with her parents to Michigan, locating at Farmington,
September 23, 1840, she was married to Thomas Myers at Dewitt. In the fall of
"61" they came to Sparta to settle in what was then a country reveling in the
wilderness of the wilderness. Deceased was in every sense a pioneer. She lived
in Michigan eleven years before it became a state. She and her husband in the
early days did much to shape the destiny of the community that it has since
become one of the most favored in the Wolverine state,  and those who have known
her during the years of her residence here have nothing but prase for her work.
Mrs. Myers was a woman of strong religious conviction, being an old line
Methodist. She had been affiliated with the church since  the days of the
circuit riders, and while not of the emotional type, was imbued with a deep
appreciation of earnestness in religious work. She abhorred sham of every
description. Old settlers relate that her father was one of the four mem who
were prominent in bring about the organization of the Wesleyan Methodist church
in 1843. Deceased leaves four children, Perine Myers, John G. Myers, Mrs.
Henrietta Hilton and Mrs. Emogene Murtell, also two sisters, Mrs. Mary G.
Pearsall and Miss Lucy Gould, and a brother, J. T. Gould, the last named three
being residents of Grand Rapids.

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