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Eaton County Michigan EATON COUNTY
MEMORIAL REPORT
He could talk well, and was always
glad to see friends, and retained his habit
of much reading until within a day or two of
Ms death. Mr. Thompson was a subscriber to
this paper from its first issue, its warm
friend, and in former years a frequent
contributor to its columns. The sorrow of his
bereaved companion, who so patiently, so
lovingly, and so tenderly ministered for so
many years to his helplessness, is well
expressed expressed in the following stanza:
"I long for household voices gone,
For vanished smiles I long; But God hath led
my dear one on,
And He can do no wrong. "
The Wife of the Venerable E. B. Dewey, who
resides with Mr. Gilbert D. Dewey, just north
of the city in Mt. Morris township, died on
Thursday last, after a brief illness, aged
eighty-six years.. The funeral occurred at
the house on Monday. Mr. Dewey, who is the
father of Hon. Geo. M. and Charles E. Dewey,
of this city, is now ninety-three years old,
and has retained his faculties wonderfully
for a man of his great age. Both he and his
wife have been greatly beloved by a large
circle of friends.
Mr. E. B. Dewey, —the venerable father of
Messrs. George M. and Charles E. Dewey, of
this city, and Gilbert D. Dewey, of the
township of Mt. Morris, died at his residence
on the farm just north of Flint, on Saturday
last, while sitting in his chair. The
deceased was a remarkable man in many
respects; he was born at Royalton, Vermont,
where his boyhood days were spent. Later he
engaged in the mercantile business at
Canandaigua, N. Y., where he also was the
owner of a stage line running to Albany.
After spending five years in New York State
he returned to Vermont and engaged in the
hotel business and stage line as well.
Michigan 1883
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