G Surname Obits
Cass County,
Michigan
Garvey, Sarah K Mrs. - Cassopolis Vigilant Thursday,
July 6, 1905
Mrs. Sarah K. Garvey - Passed Away At Her Home in Cassopolis
Saturday Evening. - - Miss Sarah miller was born in Ohio, July 21, 1829, came
to Cass county, Mich., where she has since resided, with her parents when a
child.
Her family history is unique in that her father,
grandfather, great great grandfather, two brothers, two unncles and one nephew
were ministers of the gospel.
The deceased was happily
wedded to three husbands, Mr. Chas. Kingsbury, Mr. James Orin and Matthew T.
Garvey, all of whom are dead. It was under th faithful ministry of Rev. Jacob
Price that she was converted at the age of twelve years, and united with the
Liberty Baptist church, where she laboured for tome time. Before a church of
her own faith was built in Cassopolis, she taught a class in the Methodist
Sunday school for eleven years, missing but two Sabbaths in that time. For
thirty years Sister Garvey has been a true member of the Cassopolis Baptist
church; during this time she gladly served her master and church ....
See
her burial location at:
http://www.migenweb.org/cass/cemeteries/Prospect/phillcem7.htm
Obituary
contributed by: Brett Hardesty.
Gebhard - Conrad Gebhard - died Mar 30, 1920 at 75
yrs 11 months and 23 days - contributed by: Kent A. Gebhard
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MRS. EMMA GEBHARD DIED MONDAY MORNING - Mrs. Emma Gephard, 83, a resident of this county nearly 80 years and long a resident of Cassopolis, died early Monday morning at her home in Newberg township, to which she had returned a few months ago. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. J. I. Lindsay at the Connelly funeral home at 2:00 p. m. and burial was in Little Fish Lake Cemetery. Deceased was a daughter of Samuel and Harriet (Yeck) Kline and was born in Ohio, April 26, 1864. While she was a child the family moved to Cass county and she lived here ever since. She was married in March 1883, to Martin Gephard, who died in 1937.She is survived by four children, Clyde E. Gephard, of Cassopolis, Edward of Jones, Mrs. Myrta Lutes of Cassopolis, and Clifford of Newberg; also by a sister, Mrs. Arthur Paul of Dowagiac, and two brothers, John and Fred Kline of Cassopolis. Mrs. Gephard was a member of the Methodist church in Wakelee. From the Cassopolis Vigilant 4/24/1947
Gebhard - Frank Chalmers Gebhard - died Feb 2, 1920
at 30 years 11 months 2 days - contributed by: Kent A. Gebhard
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Gifford - Mrs. Cora Adele Gifford - - Cassopolis Vigilant April 19, 1877 p 8 - Died In Jefferson , Sunday, April 8th 1877, after an illness of only three days, Caroline J. wife of William Salisbury, aged 50 years, 6 months and 3 days. She was an affectionate wife of a kind mother and a friend to the poor and hungry who reached her door.
Gifford -Edwardsburg Argus, March 6, 1913 Howard, son of H. D. Gifford, of Dailey, died on Wednesday of last week of erysipelas.
Gifford - Mrs. Saphronia Gifford, a resident of Cass
county for over eighty years, died at her home in Dowagiac last Saturday, aged
94 years 2 months and 7 days. Funeral services were held at the home, Monday,
and burial was in the cemetery north of Dailey. Saphronia Milhman was born in
Ohio July 12, 1831, and came with her parents to Jefferson township in 1841. In
1853 she was married to H. Leroy Gifford and they resided on a farm in south
Pokagon Township until 1890., when they moved to Dowagiac, where Mr. Gifford
died suddenly in 1905.
She is survived by four children - Mrs. W.H.
Russell, H. D. Gifford and P. E. Gifford of Dowagiac and A. J. Gifford of
Pokagon. She is also survived by thrteen grandchildren and ----- great
granchildren.
Contributed by Mark Brown
Gifford- - Cassopolis Vigilant Feb 8, 1940 - A. J. Gifford Died last Thursday A. J. Gifford Died Last Thursday Artemus James Gifford, son of Harmon Leroy and Sophronia Gifford, was born May 20, 1855 and died Feb 1 1940. In 1883 he was united in marriage to Ida Bell Bachtel and to his union two daughters were born, Mrs. Leona Ironside and Mrs. Viola, Schavone, both of Pokagon. The most of his years were spent on the famr, a part of the old homestead. In 1926 he left the farm and bought a home in the village of Pokagon, where he continued his active contented life wuntil a year ago, when sickness came. Since then he had been confined to a wheel chair, a patient sufferer seldom complaing, still thinking life was good. Besides the two daughters, a sister, Mrs. Nancy Russel of Battle Creek, and a brother, Howard Delos Gifford of Dowagiac, survive him. A kind, loving father, a friendly, helpful neighbor, his passing brings deep sorrow to his family and many firends.
Gifford- Cassopolis Vigilant Oct 22, 1925 Perry E.
Gifford Died Tuesday Had Been Mail Carrier at Dowagiac for Twenty - Three Years
Perry E. Gifford, well known through his section of Cass County, died at his
home in Dowagiac, Tuesday afternoon, after an illness from cancer of the
bladder. Funeral services will be held at the home this afternoon at 1:30 and
interment will be made in the cemetery north of Dailey. Mr. Gifford was a son
of the late H. Leroy Gifford, whose death occurred but recently. He grew to
young manhood in Howard township and was married to Miss Grace Dunning and they
became the parents of two children. After her death he was married to Miss Mary
Sinclair, formerly of Cassopolis, who with a child born to them survives him.
Mr. Gifford’s early life was spent as a farmer in Howard
township, but later he removed to Dowagiac. For the past twenty three years he
had carried the mail on rural route No 6. out of that city, keeping up the work
until just previous to his last illness. He was a good citizen and much
respected.
Gifford- Cassopolis Vigilant March 7, 1940 Mrs. H. D. Gifford died in Dowagiac Mrs. Cora Adele Gifford of Dowagiac, a former resident of Cassopolis, died in Lee Hospital in Dowagiac Saturday afternoon, aged 73 years. Funeral services were held at the McLauchin funeral home in Dowagiac, tuesday afternoon, conducted by her nephew, Rev H.S. Berger of Mishawaka, Burial was in the Union Cemetery norht of Dailey. Mrs. Gifford was a daughter of Pernell and Fanny Abbot and was born in MIlton township, this county, Dec 3, 1866. She was married to Howard Delos ( Jim) Gifford, March 29, 1888. She is survived by her husband and four children, Mrs. Roy H. East of Dowagiac, Mrs. Chas. L. Norton of Cassopolis, Mrs. Fred Wingard of Niles and Marchall L. Gifford at home.
Gifford - Casssopolis Vigilant Sept 25, 1925 - Mrs.
L. H. Gifford - Mrs. Saphronia Gifford, a resident of Cass county for over
eighty years, died at her home in Dowagiac last Saturday, aged 94 years 2
months and 7 days. Funeral services were held at the home, Monday, and burial
was in the cemetery north of Dailey. Saphronia Milhman was born in Ohio July
12, 1831, and came with her parents to Jefferson township in 1841. In 1853 she
was married to H. Leroy Gifford and they resided on a farm in south Pokagon
Township until 1890., when they moved to Dowagiac, where Mr. Gifford died
suddenly in 1905.
She is survived by four children - Mrs. W.H.
Russell, H. D. Gifford and P. E. Gifford of Dowagiac and A. J. Gifford of
Pokagon. She is also survived by thirteen grandchildren and ----- great
grandchildren.
Gifford - Pioneer Cass County Died in Dowagiac Last
Friday. - Cassopolis Vigilant Aug 24, 1905 H.L. H.Leroy Gifford, a resident of
this county for sixty five years, was stricken with apoplexy at his home in
Dowagiac shortly after noon last Friday and died a few minutes later. Mr.
Gifford had been in the enjoyment of his usual health and on the day previous
had been to his farm about seven miles west of this village, where he had
worked all day. Funeral services were held sunday and interment was made at the
cemetery at Dailey.
Deceased was born in Genesee County, New
York, in 1825, and came at the age of fifteen to Cass County, going first to
the home of an uncle, Robert Salisbury, near what is now Dailey. While a young
man he engaged in labor for the pioneer farmers, -- David Brady, Steve Wright,
MR. Shurte and Barney Decker being among the well known settlers for whom he
worked - and at the same time he started the foundation of his fortune by the
purchase of land in east Pokagon.
He was married in 1858 to
Sophronia Millman, who survives him, and to whose efforts were due much of
their success. To them were born four children, who survive to comfort the
mother in her bereavement. They are Mrs. Harry Russell of Kalamazoo, H.D.
Gifford and Perry Gifford of Dowagiac, and A.J. Gifford, who resides upon the
homestead.
Gifford - Mrs. Perry - Cassopolis Vigilant July 19, 1903 Death of Mrs. Perry Gifford Mrs. Grace Gifford died at her home in Dowagiac Tuesday morning following an operation, Deceased was a daughter of emmet and Caroline Hicks Dunning, and was 32 years of age, She was married to Perry Gifford Nov. 15, 1888, and became the mother of two boys, Floyd aged 12, and Charles aged five who with their father survive her. The funeral took place yesterday, and interment was made in the cemetery was made in the cemetery at the Union church, north of Dailey.
Goodrich - Cassopolis Vigilant June 21, 1877 - Leonard Goodrich one of the early settlers of Jefferson, died at his residence in that town, June 20th 1876.
Gordon Obits
William Gordon Obituary, December 1, 1899 - photostat copy - contributed by: Olivia J. Gordon-Stewart
The following Gordon Death records were submitted by:
Olivia J. Gordon Stewart at olivia.stewart@sbcglobal.net
5/26/1879
William Gordon, male white, single, 3 months old, died in Wayne Twp., Cass Co.,
MI of Brain Fever; born in Michigan; parents William and Lucina Gordon of Wayne
Twp., Cass Co., Michigan. recorded: 5/24/1880
2/11/1892 Edwin Gordon, male, white, single, 11 years, 5 months, and 14 days, died in Wayne Twp., Cass Co., Michigan, of LaGrippe: born in Michigan: parents William and Lucina Gordon, of Wayne Twp., Cass Co., Michigan. recorded : 5/27/1893
12/2/1899, William Gordon, male, white, married, 77 years 4 months and 27 days died in Wayne Twp., Cass Co., Michigan from Heart Failure; born in Canada; blacksmith; Father unknown, Mother Ellen Votten of Glenwood, Cass Co., Michigan. recorded: 1/3/1900
11/24/1907, Willie Gordon, male, white, single, 6 years 6 months and 23 days died in Wayne Twp., Cass Co., Michigan, from Heart Disease; born in Michigan. Parents James and Minnie M Lilly Gordon od Wayne Twp., Cass Co., Michigan. Recorded: 3/13/1902
7/10/1902, Babe Gordon, female, white, 6 hours old, died in Jefferson Twp., Cass Co., Michigan, od premature birth. Parents, Daniel and Susanna Tharp Gordon of Michigan. recorded: 8/20/1902
1/25/1903, Lucina Shepard Gordon, female, white, widow, 63 years, 7 months and 6 days died in Silver Creek, Cass Co., Michigan of Accidental Death due to burns.; born in Michigan, occupation Nurse; parents M. Shepard and mother unknown; residence Silver Creek Twp., Cass Co., Michigan. Recorded; 2/10/1903
7/19/1909, Bulah Gordon, white, female, 2 years 2 months and 8 days died in the city if Dowagiac of Olio Caliter; born in Michigan. Parents; Ed and Alice Whitmore Gordon of Michigan. Recorded: 10/7/1909
12/1/1912, Beatrice P. Gordon, female, white, 1 year 7 months, 21 days died in Dowagiac, of acute gastro enteritis, born in Indiana, parents: Ed and Alice Whitmore Gordon of Michigan. Recorded: 12/31/1912
7/13/1916, Phebe A. Gordon, female, white, widow, 72 years, 0 months 1 day died in Cassopolis Ywp., Cass Co., Michigan of Organic Heart Failure, born in Michigan, she was a housewife; Parents Daniel Brady of New Jersey and mother unknown. Recorded: 10/9/1916.
8/23/1918, James Allen Gordon, male, white, married, 71 years 9 months 28 days died in Porter Twp. Cass Co., Michigan of apoplexy, born in Ohio; farmer; parents John Gordon and Pratt of Ohio, Recorded 11/12/1918
10/28/1920, Frances B. Gordon, female, white, single, 49 years died in Cassopolis Twp., Cass Co., Michigan of Suffication in Hotel Fire, born in Michigan. Parents Ira A. and Lida Humphrey Gordon of New York. Recorded: 12/27/1920
7/28/1925, John Lewis Gordon, male infant , died at 7 days in Mason Twp., Cass Co., Michigan of Convulsions; born in Michigan; parents Henry W. and Florence M. Brouse Gordon of Indiana. Recorded: 8/12/1925
1/13/1926, Ida Marie Gordon, female, white, died of Hydram, born in Michigan, Parents Eddie and Florence Wise Gordon of Michigan. Recorded: 4/13/1926
