Obituary of Fannie Stocking, Tecumseh, Lenawee County, Michigan

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DEATH OF FANNIE STOCKING        
appeared in the Tecumseh News, Vol 10, No.
5, May 4, 1893, and was published in the March/April 1993, 
Vol. 6, Issue5. of Lenawee County Family Researchers newsletter.


DEATH OF FANNIE STOCKING        

Miss Fannie Stocking died last Friday night, after a 
month's illness, aged 59 years.

Miss Stocking was born in Tecumseh and spent most of her 
life in this community, enjoying the highest esteem of all 
who knew her.  For many years she was a teacher in the 
public schools of this village and of Clinton and, during 
the latter years of her life, she conducted a private 
kindergarten school.

Besides her work in the secular schools she was a faithful 
worker in the Presbyterian Sunday school for many years. 
 Since the death of her father a few years ago, she has 
also conducted the insurance business, which falling health 
had compelled him to relinquish.  Thus has her life been 
closely woven into the lives and hearts of this community.

Her death is felt as a personal bereavement by many of 
those among whom she had lived so long, exerting by her 
lovely Christian character, a gentle but powerful influence 
for good.  None ever knew her but will bless her memory.

At her funeral Monday afternoon there was a large 
attendance of her old friends, the house being full.  A 
touching incident of the occasion was the attendance of her 
Sunday school class of young ladies and gentlemen, the 
latter of whom acted as pall bearers.

Her pastor, Rev. W. H. Babbitt, officiated, paying a 
touching tribute to the virtues of the deceased, after 
which all that was mortal of this gentle and sweet woman 
was consigned to its last resting place, while a gentle May 
day shower was descending over all.

Attending the service were Fannie's brother and sister, Mr. 
Wm. Stocking, of Dowagiac, and Miss Sarah Stocking, of 
Iowa.


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