Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Monks, Randall 1898 ************************************************ 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: Sandy Heintzelman sheintz@iserv.net August 21, 2016, 11:05 am Saranac Advertiser, 7 Apr 1898 Randall Monks was born in Canada in 1822. He came to Michigan in 1830 with his parents Philip and Margaret Monk. He died at his home in Boston, April 1, ’98, at 8 o’clock in the morning. He was the youngest of eleven children, the deceased had survived the rest of the family. He was married to Miss Mary Joseph in 1841, his wife passing away in 1802. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Monk were six in number, four survive him, Philip J. Monk of Boston, Mrs. Louisa Lamson of Ithaca, Mrs. Dortha Carr and Mrs. Amelia Pratt, both of Keene, and Milo Van Buren, (Monk) adopted son of Boston. The funeral was held from his home in Boston, Sunday April 3rd, conducted by Rev. W. H. Wright, of Saranac. [Transcriber's Notes: There is a notation on the obituary card that he was buried in White Cemetery. The date of his wife’s death is typed as it was printed in the obituary. The spelling of the surname is typed as it was printed in the obituary.] File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/m/monks33556nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb