Charity Bacon Johnson
Sept. 10, 1816-Nov. 21, 1892

Niles Daily Star, Tuesday, November 22, 1892, page 3, col. 2, microfilm Niles District Library

Mrs. C.B. Johnson, wife of the late Judge J. Eastman Johnson died on the 21st inst., near Boston, Mass.  Her remains will arrive here on Thursday, accompanied by her daughter, Mrs. C.B. Ooleman.  Notice of the funeral will be given later.

Niles Daily Sun, Friday, November, 25, 1892, page 3, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library

The funeral of the late Mrs. J. Eastman Johnson will occur from the Episcopal church of this city tomorrow at 2 o'clock. The Rev. D.C. Tate, of Maywood, Ill., assisted by Rev. R.H. F. Gardner, will officiate.  Mrs. Johnson is well known here and many will mourn her departure.

Bessie Bacon
1870-Jan. 18, 1893

Niles Daily Star, Monday, January 20, 1893, page 3, col. 3, microfilm Niles District Library

Death of Miss Bessie Bacon

Miss Bessie Bacon, daughter of Mrs. Joseph S. Bacon, died at Kenosha, Wis., Saturday morning last at 10 o'clock, aged 22 years.  Miss Bacon has been in ill health for some time, but seemed to be improving, and about seven weeks ago went to Wisconsin, to visit relatives, hoping that she might get better by the change of climate, but such ws not the case and her mother left about a week ago for Kenosha in response to a telegram stating that she was very bad, and her mother was with her at the time of her death.  A large number of friends here deeply mourn her loss. The remains were brought to Niles Saturday evening, and the funeral will take place tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock at the residence on Broadway. Rev. J.G. Lawrie, of the Presbyterian church, will conduct the services, and the interment will take place at Silver Brook cemetery.

Sarah Davis
March 4, 1814-January 30, 1893

Niles Daily Star, Tuesday, January 31, 1893, page 2, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library

Another Old Settler Gone Over the River

Mrs. Sarah Davis, widow of the late Moses Davis, died at the old homestead in West Niles. SHe would have been 70 years of age on the 4th of next March.  Mrs. Davis was born in Sweet Brier county, Va., on the 4th of March, 1814.  She was married in Virginia to Moses Davis in 1832, and came directly to Niles where they have lived ever since.  She was the mother of Wm. M. Davis and M.S. Davis, of Chicago, and grandmother to six children. She has ever been one of the most exemplary women, beloved and respected for her general liverality and kindness to all. In her earlier years she took an active part in all affairs connected with the Methodist chuch of which she as been a member for over 50 years.  Her sons were present at her bedside at the time of her decease.

Funeral will occur tomorrow at 10 o'clock a.m. from the residence.

Edward Griswold
1814-Dec. 4, 1892

Niles Republican, Thursday, December 8, 1892, page 2, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library

SUDDEN DEATH

OF ONE OF THE OLDEST RESIDENTS OF NILES

Edward Griswold Found Dead in a Wood-Shed, Heart Failure the Cause of His Death.

From Thursday's Sun.

Shortly before 10 o'clock this morning, G.W. Boone, a painter working at the residence of F.S. Retan, on Fourth street, went out back of the house and discovered an old gray haired man lying face downward on a pile of kindling in the woodshed.  Approaching the man he found it to be Edward Griswold.

A hasty examination satisfied Mr. Boone that life was extinct and he immediately came down town and notified Coroner Barron and a few others who hurried to the spot where the old man lay, as was stated above, on a pile of kindling on his face, his right arm under him with his friendly old pipe still in his hand; the left arm was wedged down by his side against a post which supported the shed roof; his hat lay to the right of him less than two feet away.

As soon as a place at his home was prepared his body was carried into the . . .[illegible] . .

hours before apparently as well as usual. He asked Mrs. J.E. French about 8 o'clock for the kindling wood they had left under the shed and she gave it to him. He notified his folks at home of this fact and said he was going to carry it over into his yard.  He had carried two or three loads before his death, which is supposed to have resulted from heart failure. There was no sign of any struggle and to all appearances he had attempted to grasp the post for support, when everything before him turned black. He fell with his face on the kindling, but fortunately missed the many nails that were sticking up, and his face was not bruised in the least.

It is remembered by old settlers that Mr. G's father was a bee hunter, and was found dead on one of these tours.  He died of heart disease, and this, his last son, so says the physician, met death the same way.

A coronor's jury was called at 2 o'clock this afternoon, and after a very short deliberation gave the verdict to Justice Barron that "Edward Griswold met death by heart disease."

Mr. Griswold is the last of a family of five boys and two girls who came here with their father, Eber, in 1829, and in his early days he had become accustomed to speaking Indian dialects.

Rosalie Minnear
1867-March 5, 1939

Niles Daily Star, Thursday, March 16, 1939, page 2, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library

Mrs. W.H. Minnear Dies at Rural Home; Service Saturday

. . .[Illegible] , , , Minnear, who had lived on a farm five miles north of Niles on US-31 intermittently the last 18 years, died there at 10:30 Wednesday night after a year's illness.

She was born in Buffalo, N.Y., and came to Berrien county from Iron Mountain, Mich.

Survivors are the husband, W.H. Minnear, whom she married April 15, 1899, in Hancock, Mich.; a son, Earl, at home, and a niece, Mrs. Katherine Clark, Niles.

The body was brought to the Price and Kiger funeral home, but friends may call at the Minnear home from Friday afternoon until the service there at 2 Saturday afternoon.

Mrs. Mabel Bennett, Iron Mountain, Chhristian Science reader, will officiate. Burial will be in the Silverbrook mausoleum.

Niles Daily Star, Friday, March 17, 1939, page 2, col. 3, microfilm Niles District Library

MINNEAR RITES

Funeral services for Mrs. Rosalie O. Minnear, who died Wednesday night in her home five miles north of Niles, will be held at 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon in the Minnear home. Mrs. Mabel Bennett, Iron Mountain, Christian Science reader, will officiate. Interment will be in the Silverbrook mausoleum.

Augusta Louisa Lacey
1833-April 3, 1892

Niles Daily Sun, Tuesday, April 5, 1892, page 4, col. 3, microfilm Niles District Library

Death of Mrs. Granville Lacey

Mrs. Augusta, wife of Granville Lacey, died in Los Angeles, California, on Sunday morning, April 3, 1892, of heart disease, in her 60th year.

For twenty years Mrs. Lacey had been an invalid, her health and strength gradually giving away during all this time.

In the early part of the winter Mrs. Lacey, accompanied by her two faithful and loving daughters, Misses May and Edith, went to Los Angeles, in the hope that the mild climate of Southern California might give some relief, and where she might also have the benefit of the medical services of her long-time physician, Dr. M.N. Avery, now of Los Angeles, and of her brother, Dr. Wm. B. May, an eminent physician of San Francisco. Unfortunately, however, human skill was unavailing.  For some weeks her husband has been in receipt of letters and telegrams of a very discouraging tenor, and yesterday evening at 7:30 o'clock a telegram was received announcing that her death occurred on Sunday morning.

Augusta L. May was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Her parents came to Michigan in her early childhood and settled in St. Joseph county.  On the 12th of June, 1855, at White Pigeon, she was united in marriage to Granville Lacey, and since that time, with the exception of about five years' residence in Buffalo and Cleveland, they have resided in this city.

Mrs. Lacey was a firm believer in the religion of Christ, and was a communicant in the Trinity Episcopal church. She had many friends who will sincerely mourn her death, and these friends are of those who knew her most intimately and had the best opportunity to know of her good traits of character.