Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1918-05-08

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ton came Saturday to visit with her
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. j. l.. Morse.
Mrs. A. r. Locke came with them and
visited her mother, Mrs. Emily Morse.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Richmond and Mr..
and Mrs. Tom Reed of Vergennes
were visitors at +. l.. Moons Mon
day afternoon. They also called to
see Mr.. Richmond's sister, Mrs. II.
Werner, who is i'll.
|. Mr.. and Mrs. Archie Swear have
returned home from Shiloh.
Mr.. and Mr.. Leo Richmond and
two children and Madge Clemens were
Sunday visitors. with Mr.. and Mrs.
ID. l.. Smith. Mr.. anr Mrs. +. w.
Bedding were also callers at the Smith
home.
Mrs. w. ID. Ballou of Beckett. Mass,
visited Friday afternoon with Mrs.
Emily Morse.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. w. Belding and
daughter, Pauline, were Sunday call
ers at Clare Shotwell's in Grattan.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. ID. Aelick and two
lady friends spent Sunday with Mr..
and Mrs. Allen Hill
Mrs. Harry Sage and two sons,
Russell and Brace, LETT for Pontiac
Friday for the summer. Mr.. Sage,
Fred and Russell, have employment
there.
Mr.. and Mrs. Davis of Belding Wis
tied Thursday with Mr.. and Mrs. Al
len Hill.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Little and sis
ter, Mrs. Geo. Johnson of Albion,
were called to Bedding to attend the
funeral of their mother. Mrs. Little
made short visit with her sister,
Mrs. H. L. Miller, while here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Gephart
and baby were Sunday callers at w.
C. Fisk's.
Mrs. Geo. Brown spent a few days
the past week with her daughter,
Mrs. w. c. Fisk.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Vincent and two
children of Ionia visited her grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Meh-
ney, Sunday.
The Red Cross will have sewing at
the Cleaner hall Wednesday after
noon, May Is. There is plenty of
work and we hope all will come who
can.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. M. Hubbard receiv-
ed letter from their son, Frank Hub
bard, Saturday, which was written
April Ia, saying he is somewhere in
France" and has transferred to Co.
| D., 128th Infantry, all Wisconsin men
and fine fellow too.
Shafter Arbor will hold their next
meeting at the Cleaner hall Thurs
day evening, May Is.
Obituary-Mrs. Ed. ID. Lambertson
Elsie A., eldest daughter of A. N.
and Josephine Clark, was born Sep
TENDER 10, 1888 in Seneca County,
Ohio. and died April 80, 1918, at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Charles
Graft, in Orleans.
Married at an early age to Edward
d. Lambertson of the same place
(Seneca County, she stayed several
wears with her parents while her hus-
band was in the West and after his
return they came to. Ionia County,
Michigan in the fall Of 1860, settling
on the farm in Orleans which he still
owns. To this union were born eight
children, three of whom-Theodore,
the eldest, Emma, an infant, and
Laura, wife of M. M. Benedict, have
preceded her into the unknown.
Surviving. her are her husband, her
children-Mrs. A. L. Benedict OF
Flint, Chas. c., Walter s. of Belding
John c. and Mrs. Chas. Graft of Or.
leans, seventeen grandchildren and
three great-grandchildren, all OF
whom were in attendance at the fun
eral, with the exception of one grand
son.
The funeral service was conducted
at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Charles Graft, by Rev. Birdsall of the
M. E. church at Orleans, who took
his text very appropriately from the
| Ninth Chapter Of Acts: "Now there
was a certain Disciple called Dorcas,
this woman was fun Of good works
and aims and which she did,"
Mrs. Lambertson was very fond of
! flowers which she always raised in
abundance, but in accordance with her
oft expressed wish she was laid away
with only an autumn leaf in her hand
and a wreath of laurel on her casket
| The bearers were her three sons,
! two son-in-laws and one grandson
The Orleans w. c. T. u. of which
she was member, attended in body
She did her share as pioneer help
| ing to carve a home from the virgin
forest purchased of the government
where deer and other wild game were
common and Indians frequent visit
ors.. Living far from a doctor and
professional nursing unknown, she
went far and near on her errands of
mercy, nursing with skill and mater
nal tenderness the aged, the mother
and tiny infant. She was the soul OF
hospitality, there always being room
at her table, even with the large fam
! lily for friend or chance traveller. She
delighted in social life, Sunday school
and w. c. T. u. work and was able to
get out among her friends until with
in few months of her death. She
was the author of many fine poems
with which she frequently entertain
ed the Farmers Club and w. C. T
u. of Orleans. Burial in the family
lot in Green's cemetery.
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