Montcalm-Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Cheney, Elisha Parsons September 16, 1905
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Suanne Tasker stasker@cmsinter.net January 2, 2017, 6:10 pm

Stanton Weekly Clipper, Fri., Sept. 22, 1905
IONIA PIONEER GONE

Died at the home of his daughter in this city

Elisha P. Cheney, who for the past eighteen months had resided with his 
daughter, Mrs. H.W. Rice, in this city, died last Saturday afternoon.

The decease was born January 2, 1811 in Vermont, and moved with  his parents to 
Genessee county, N.Y. when a small boy. March 4, 1829, he was married to Fanny 
Metcalf. Nine children were born them, three of whom are living, Mrs. H.W. Rice 
and Ann L. Cheney of this city and U.H. Cheney of Iowa. In the year 1844 they 
moved to Ionia county, this state and settled in the township of Easton, 
afterwards they moved to Orleans, where they lived nearly fifty years.

In 1864 his wife died., after sharing each other's joys and sorrows for nearly 
65 years.

Funeral services were held Monday at the Woodard Lake church in Ionia county, 
where the remains were laid to rest by those of his wife.

Additional Comments:
From the Daily Sentinel, Mon. Sept. 15, 1905:

Mr. and Mrs. W.T. Remington and Mr. and Mrs. H.F. Hubbell went to Woodward lake 
today to attend the funeral of Mr. Cheney of Stanton, father of the late Henry 
Cheney. Decedent was 94 years old. 

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/montcalm/obits/c/cheney33711nob.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/

File size: 1.8 Kb