Obituary for Mrs Robert Gripton, Omard, Sanilac County, Michigan Copyright © 1998 by Gail Mazzie. This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives. USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. ___________________________________________________________________ Died - Tuesday, July 8, 1890 at Omard, Mich., Caroline Mary, beloved wife of Robert Gripton and daughter of John and Elizabeth Shephard. Age of deceased 29 years, three months and five days. She was born in Adelaide, Ontario; has resided in this place about ten years. A husband, two children, the youngest a babe of eleven weeks, will miss the gentle voice of a loving wife and tender mother. Through all her long and painful illness she was never known to murmur. Since September 89 she has been sinking with consumption. All that loving hands of husband, parents, brothers and sisters could do was done, but the precious life could (copy ends here). dz