Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Kart, Rachel (Shopbell) (Mrs. Samuel) June 28, 1904 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Maureen Cross mcross3454@gmail.com March 26, 2023, 12:25 pm Lake Odessa Times - Wed. June 29, 10=904 GONE TO HER REWARD. ------- MRS. S, II, KART DIED TUESDAY EVENING AT 9:00 O'CLOCK. For the second time in four months is the Kart family called upon to mourn the loss of one of their loved ones. This time it is the wife of Samuel Kart and mother of John, Charles, George and the late Harvey Kart, who died about 9:00 o'clock last evening of sugar diabetes. Mrs. Kart has been in ill health for a long time but was not thought dangerously so until yesterday morning when she was taken much worse. She was put to bed and all day she lay hovering between life and death only waiting for the summons of her Master which finally came to relieve her of her suffering. Mrs. Kart was a kindly woman and loved by all who knew her, for she was generous to a fault and of a most sympathetic nature. She will be sadly missed not only hy her immediateiate family but all her friends and neighbors both here and in her former home Campbell. Beside the above mentioned children she leaves two daughters Mrs. Hurd Green and Mrs. F. E. Stadel and granddaughter Nellie Burt who has made her home from infancy with her grand parents. The entire family have the heartfelt sympathy of the community at large in their sad bereavement. Rachel Shopbell was born in Ashland, O, on Nov. 15, 1843. She married to Samuel Kart on June 14, 1866 in Ashland and came to Michigan in the early 70's settling on a farm in Campbell. They moved to this village about five years ago where Mr. Kart has purchased the grist mill now operated by Kart Bros.. To this union was born eight children, five of whom remain to mourn her loss. The funeral will be held at the Apostolie church tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, Rev. Rairigh and Smith officiating. Burial in Lakeside cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/k/kart45324nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 2.4 Kb