Category 1900-1950

Emery C. Dobson was born in Gratiot County, Michigan, Jan. 31, 1856; and died at his home at North Shade, Jan. 19, 1926. Brother Dobson united with the Seventh-day Adventist church about twenty years ago. He remained faithful to the… Continue Reading →

Loren L. Shelley was born in Gratiot County, Mich., April 20, 1877. When he was four years of age his mother died, and the family moved to Cedar Lake. Returning to his boyhood home, at the age of twenty-two he… Continue Reading →

Emily Read, daughter of Sarah Carpenter and Joshua Read, was born in New York State, Jan. 6, 1838, and died April 17, 1917, aged 79 years, 3 months, and 11 days. She was united in marriage to the late Jerome… Continue Reading →

Ida May Current Bugbee was born at Brant, Saginaw Co., Mich., Mar. 18, 1877 and died at her home in Ithaca, Oct. 16, 1947, aged 70 years at her last birthday. She was the wife of brother Glen Bugbee, who… Continue Reading →

Laura Woodman White was born Mar. 13, 1875 near Ashley, Mich., being the eldest of four children born to James and Alice Woodman. She died Jan. 7, 1948 at her home in Ithaca, Mich. On Jan. 8, 1896 she was… Continue Reading →

Fannie J. Jenner was born Jan. 24, 1866, in Newark Township, Gratiot County, Mich., to Knowler and Sarah Gibbs. She died Jan. 16, 1948, at the home of her adopted son, Alden Eggleston, in Charlotte, Mich. Funeral services were held… Continue Reading →

Mrs. Margaret L. Gruesbeck, wife of George Gruesbeck of Ithaca, Mich., was returning with her husband from Florida and spending a few days in Tennessee, when without a warning, a heart attack caused her sudden death, April 9, 1948. Her… Continue Reading →

Amy Rogers Evans, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Rogers was born in Gratiot County, Mich., June 2, 1873 and quietly passed away at the home of her son Albert, in Cedar Lake, July 14, 1948. Her early childhood was spent… Continue Reading →

Sunday noon, Aug. 8, 1948, Elder Leonard W. Light passed from this life to await the call of Jesus. Born January 21, 1891 at Southampton, England, he joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church at that place at the age of 17…. Continue Reading →

Miss Minnie Mellinger was born seventy-six years and ten days before she was taken by death Sept. 24, 1948. She had lived in Gratiot Co., Michigan, all her life, the most of the time in or near Ithaca. The last… Continue Reading →