Catherine Brookfield Ford
1851-May 20, 1928

Niles Daily Star (Niles, Michigan), Monday, May 21, 1928, page 4, col. 1, microfilm Niles District Library

News In Brief:

 FORMER RESIDENT DIES

The body of Mrs. Catherine Brookfield Ford, former resident of Niles will be brought to Niles Tomorrow afternoon on Michigan Central train due at 2:45 and will be taken to the Troost and Augustine chapel where a service will be conducted at 3 o'clock. Burial will take place in Silver Brook cemetery.. Mrs. Ford's maiden name was Catherine Crandall. The arrangements for the funeral and burial were made by friends in Chicago, and it is understood Mrs. Ford has no close relatives in Niles.

James Pratt
Sept. 22, 1820-Dec. 17, 1865

Niles Republican I (Niles, Michigan), Saturday, December 30, 1865, page 3, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library

In San Francisco, California, December 17th, 1865, JAMES PRATT, Esp, aged 44 years.

The eldest son of the late Daniel Pratt, of this city.

Thomas Hathorn
1839-Dec. 23, 1865

Niles Republican I (Niles, Michigan), Saturday, December 30, 1865, page 3, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library

In Niles city on Saturday, December 23rd, of Typhoid Fever, THOMAS HATHHORN, aged 25 years.

Detroit papers please copy.

John Bond
April 22, 1803*-Nov. 4, 1865

Niles Republican I (Niles, Michigan), Saturday, November 11, 1865, page 3, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library

DIED—In this city, on Saturday, Nov. 4, of apoplexy, JOHN BOND, son of the late JOHN G. BOND, aged 62 years, 6 months and 13 days.

The community mourns when such a man as John Bond is taken from among us by death. It is a public calamity. He was beloved and respected by all who knew him, and we don not believe he had an enemy in the world. He was strictly honest, and eminently distinguished for his purity of thought and purpose. He leaves a large family, with whom we sympathize in their bereavement.

Note: Date of birth was calculated from age at date of death as set forth in this obituary

August Wachmuth
1794-Dec. 19, 1865

Niles Republican I (Niles, Michigan), Saturday, December 23, 1865, page 3, col 2, microfilm Niles District Library

KILLED—On Wednesday last a gentleman name Watchmuth, aged about 70 years, was killed while engaged in felling trees in Leech's woods just north of this city. It appears that a tree had lodged on another and in his attempting to dislodge it was caught be the falling tree and [he was] killed. He was not discovered until about half an hour after the accident. The deceased resided with his son at the time of his death and we believe had no family.

Note: Text in brackets added to clarify original.

Hattie Bell Dewey
June 24, 1858*-Oct. 31, 1865

Niles Republican I (Niles, Michigan), Saturday, November 4, 1865, page 3, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library

DIED—Tuesday morning, October 31^st at 10 minutes before one o'clock, of consumption, HATTIE BELL, only daughter of Emma B. and George M. Dewey, Esq., aged seven years, four months and seven days.

There is a painful and affecting story connected with the demise of this little girl. She has been sick a long time, and her sufferings have been of the most painful character, but her path way to the tomb was guarded by kid and faithful friends, who only separated from her when the angels received her spirit, and carried it away to Heaven. During her illness, she bore her terrible afflictions with a fortitude wonderful for one so young.

Her winning manners and graceful ways, her purity of thought and purpose, had won many loving and faithful friends, who, with her relatives now mourn her loss. The fairest flowers soonest fade. In this deep affliction her parents and friends have our unfeigned sympathy. But she has simply been transferred to a better world, where sorrow and death are known no more:

Note: DOB computed from age at DOB as stated in obituary.