The funeral services of Mr. S. H. Ransom, whose death, occurring at Waukesha, on Friday last, we have before noticed, were held at his residence, in this village, yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Samuel Hazeltine Ransom was born in Townshend, Windham county, Vermont, December 23, 1810, and consequently was at the time of his death, in the 66th year of age. He received his education in the common schools and academies of his native State. At the age of 22 he came to reside in Kalamazoo, Michigan, locating at first on Grand Prairie, but soon removing to the spot selected for a home on Academy street, where he has continued to reside for more than 40 years. In 1839, he was married to Miss Eleanor B. Goddard, who survives him, as do also four of their five children, all of whom have grown up with the town of Kalamazoo, Mrs. Alla Baker, their third daughter, a most beautiful and accomplished woman, having died here a little more than two years since. During all the time that he has resided here he has been an active member of the Baptist church, and for many years a deacon, first of the First Baptist Church, and for the last 10 years, of the Tabernacle Baptist Church, with which, since 1864, he has been connected. He was for 30 years, from its foundation, one of the Trustees of Kalamazoo College, to which he has made large benefactions in money, time and service, and where also his own children were educated. In business affairs, Mr. Ransom has been an upright, sagacious and successful man. Avoiding always hazardous adventure, he was content with carefully secured, honest, and honorable gains, and was, always, everywhere, in public expenditures and personal matters, an outspoken advocate for economy and living according to one's means. Socially, no man in Kalamazoo was more universally beloved and respected, or could have been more regretted, as the great numbers assembled at his funeral and the many tokens of respect and love, which were proffered by unnumbered friends on the sad occasion, bear witness. Those who have labored in the cause of Temperance, and other moral reforms, will feel that they have lost in him a wise counselor, a staunch advocate, and a true helper. He was a staunch champion for the right in everything touching men and measures, politics and religion. What is right and just and true, was the question that governed his judgment, rather than what is expedient or politic. The funeral services were conducted by Dr. J. A. B. Stone, who had been for several years his pastor in each of the churches with which he had been connected, as well as his intimate friend and associate in labors for the college and other interests of society. In the remarks that Dr. Stone made on the occasion, reference was made to the success of Mr. Ransom's life. " He was," he said, "a fortunate man; fortunate in the place of his birth, in all the New England influences and habits under which he grew up. He was fortunate in his parents, honest, honorable and high minded people of the best New England stamp ; both of whom died here and were buried from the same home. He was pronounced fortunate in his selection of a home for his life, because here he found among the pioneers of a new settlement, so many excellent associates, with whom he maintained, until his death, the closest relations of friendship, that no circumstances, no differences of politics or religion could shake. He was fortunate too in his social life; in the family circle he was eminently a happy and fortunate man, loving home and enjoying it as few men do. His life, indeed, had been a success, although terminated somewhat unexpectedly, and away from home, to which he himself could hardly be reconciled. He had so lived that his work was finished, whenever his life might close. The scene at the grave was very impressive. Never was there a more perfect day, nor a more beautiful declining sun, than that which lighted this good man to his repose. The concourse of people was very great, and they seemed to stand around that open grave as mourners, and not for custom or form's sake. The grave was so decorated and lined with soft evergreens and flowers that it seemed more like a bower for luxurious repose than the so called cold and dreary grave. After a beautiful hymn had been sung. Dr. Stone remarked that not long since he was present at the funeral ceremonies of a Prince, a member of one of the Royal families in Europe, where the pageant was very gorgeous, extremely imposing and grand; but he felt, as he stood here, that it was better than royal to be a Christian and an honest man—to have been a man of whom it could be truly said, he was one who knew the right, and, better, knowing dared maintain it. Kalamazoo Daily Telegraph July 24, 1896 page 4