Van Buren-Berrien County MI Archives Obituaries.....Hipshier, Matilda Ellen March 14, 1922
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Niles Daily Star-Sun, Wed. March 15, 1922
Matilda Ellen Hipshier
1854-1922

MRS. HIPSHIER, MOTHER OF LARGE FAMILY, CLAIMED BY DEATH

	Mrs. Matilda Ellen Hipshier, mother of 15 children, died last evening at 6:45
o'clock at her home, 604 Ferry street, after a prolonged illness from a tumor
and from dropsy.  For the last five weeks she had been confined to her bed.
	Mrs. Hipshier was born in VanWert, Ohio, April 15, 1854, making her [illegible]
at the time of her death.  She had resided in Niles about five years.  Of the
fifteen children born to her, 11 survive their mother.  The are Mrs. Ellen
Cowgill . .[illegible], Roscoe and Fred Hipshier of Niles; Mrs. Irene Coon,
Alonzo and Alvin Hipshier of Benton Harbor; Mrs. Lottie Statler, Watervliet;
Charles Hipshier, Grand Rapids and Mrs. Lydia Palmer, Bartlesville, Okla. 
Besides the children she is survived by 17 grand children and 13 great
grandchildren.  Two brothers, Tilas Taylor of Keeler and David Taylor of Benton
Harbor and two sisters, Mrs. M.M. Thomas, Hamlet, Ind., and Mrs. John Hubbertt
of Green Acres, Wash., also survive.
	Funeral Services will be held at the home Friday morning at 9 o'clock and at
the Keeler church on Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.  Burial will take place
in the Keeler cemetery where Mr. Hipsier[sic] was buried six years ago.

(Source: Niles Daily Star-Sun, Wed. March 15, 1922, page 1, col. 6, microfilm
Niles District Library)



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