Newspaper Obituary from back of Cemetery Certificate:
Mrs. Jennie Quirk Cornwell, an Ypsilanti pioneer with 99 years of continual residency in the city, died at 8:15 this morning at her home, 209 N. Huron St. She would have been 100 years old Thursday.
She was an aunt to Mrs. Nancy Williams, wife of Michigan's governor; to Daniel T. Quirk, president of the Peninsular Paper Company here; A. Buell Quirk, this city, and Mrs. Julia Quirk Krag, Ann Arbor.
Born Dec. 3, 1859 in Chicago, Mrs. Cornwell was the daughter of Daniel Lace Quirk, Sr., and Priscilla Frain Quirk. (Frains Lake was named after her mother's family). When the Quirks came to Ypsilanti in March of 1860, they made their home in a white frame house on the site of the present City Hall. The land was given to the city by the Quirks in 1914.
Her father, D. L. Quirk, Sr., helped to organize the First National Bank of Ypsilanti in 1863 and in 1886 he moved from the position of vice president to president of the bank.
Mrs. Cornwell, then Jennie Quirk, began her schooling at the Ypsilanti Seminary in 1865, now Ypsilanti High School. In 1876 she attended the Michigan State Normal College (now Eastern Michigan University) and was probably the school's oldest former student.
Edward Cornwell, her husband, died in 1848 (sic. should be 1948). The couple had no children.
Surviving, in addition to Mrs. Williams, Daniel Quirk, Buell Quirk and Mrs. Julia Krag, are a niece and a nephew, Bessie and George Younglove, Pomona, Calif.
Funeral Services will be conducted from Mrs. Cornwell's residence, at 3 p.m. Thursday, which was to be her 100th birthday, with Rev. Sidney S. Rood, rector of St. Luke's Episcopal Church, officiating. Burial will follow in Highland Cemetery.
Friends may call at the Geer Funeral Home beginning this evening and until 11 a.m. Thursday, after which they may call at the late residence until the hour of the funeral.
Mrs. Williams is expected here this afternoon and the governor is to be here for the funeral.
Mrs. Jennie Quirk Cornwell, an Ypsilanti pioneer with 99 years of continual residency in the city, died at 8:15 this morning at her home, 209 N. Huron St. She would have been 100 years old Thursday.
She was an aunt to Mrs. Nancy Williams, wife of Michigan's governor; to Daniel T. Quirk, president of the Peninsular Paper Company here; A. Buell Quirk, this city, and Mrs. Julia Quirk Krag, Ann Arbor.
Born Dec. 3, 1859 in Chicago, Mrs. Cornwell was the daughter of Daniel Lace Quirk, Sr., and Priscilla Frain Quirk. (Frains Lake was named after her mother's family). When the Quirks came to Ypsilanti in March of 1860, they made their home in a white frame house on the site of the present City Hall. The land was given to the city by the Quirks in 1914.
Her father, D. L. Quirk, Sr., helped to organize the First National Bank of Ypsilanti in 1863 and in 1886 he moved from the position of vice president to president of the bank.
Mrs. Cornwell, then Jennie Quirk, began her schooling at the Ypsilanti Seminary in 1865, now Ypsilanti High School. In 1876 she attended the Michigan State Normal College (now Eastern Michigan University) and was probably the school's oldest former student.
Edward Cornwell, her husband, died in 1848 (sic. should be 1948). The couple had no children.
Surviving, in addition to Mrs. Williams, Daniel Quirk, Buell Quirk and Mrs. Julia Krag, are a niece and a nephew, Bessie and George Younglove, Pomona, Calif.
Funeral Services will be conducted from Mrs. Cornwell's residence, at 3 p.m. Thursday, which was to be her 100th birthday, with Rev. Sidney S. Rood, rector of St. Luke's Episcopal Church, officiating. Burial will follow in Highland Cemetery.
Friends may call at the Geer Funeral Home beginning this evening and until 11 a.m. Thursday, after which they may call at the late residence until the hour of the funeral.
Mrs. Williams is expected here this afternoon and the governor is to be here for the funeral.
Newspaper Obituary from back of Cemetery Certificate:
Mrs. Jennie Quirk Cornwell, an Ypsilanti pioneer with 99 years of continual residency in the city, died at 8:15 this morning at her home, 209 N. Huron St. She would have been 100 years old Thursday.
She was an aunt to Mrs. Nancy Williams, wife of Michigan's governor; to Daniel T. Quirk, president of the Peninsular Paper Company here; A. Buell Quirk, this city, and Mrs. Julia Quirk Krag, Ann Arbor.
Born Dec. 3, 1859 in Chicago, Mrs. Cornwell was the daughter of Daniel Lace Quirk, Sr., and Priscilla Frain Quirk. (Frains Lake was named after her mother's family). When the Quirks came to Ypsilanti in March of 1860, they made their home in a white frame house on the site of the present City Hall. The land was given to the city by the Quirks in 1914.
Her father, D. L. Quirk, Sr., helped to organize the First National Bank of Ypsilanti in 1863 and in 1886 he moved from the position of vice president to president of the bank.
Mrs. Cornwell, then Jennie Quirk, began her schooling at the Ypsilanti Seminary in 1865, now Ypsilanti High School. In 1876 she attended the Michigan State Normal College (now Eastern Michigan University) and was probably the school's oldest former student.
Edward Cornwell, her husband, died in 1848 (sic. should be 1948). The couple had no children.
Surviving, in addition to Mrs. Williams, Daniel Quirk, Buell Quirk and Mrs. Julia Krag, are a niece and a nephew, Bessie and George Younglove, Pomona, Calif.
Funeral Services will be conducted from Mrs. Cornwell's residence, at 3 p.m. Thursday, which was to be her 100th birthday, with Rev. Sidney S. Rood, rector of St. Luke's Episcopal Church, officiating. Burial will follow in Highland Cemetery.
Friends may call at the Geer Funeral Home beginning this evening and until 11 a.m. Thursday, after which they may call at the late residence until the hour of the funeral.
Mrs. Williams is expected here this afternoon and the governor is to be here for the funeral.
Mrs. Jennie Quirk Cornwell, an Ypsilanti pioneer with 99 years of continual residency in the city, died at 8:15 this morning at her home, 209 N. Huron St. She would have been 100 years old Thursday.
She was an aunt to Mrs. Nancy Williams, wife of Michigan's governor; to Daniel T. Quirk, president of the Peninsular Paper Company here; A. Buell Quirk, this city, and Mrs. Julia Quirk Krag, Ann Arbor.
Born Dec. 3, 1859 in Chicago, Mrs. Cornwell was the daughter of Daniel Lace Quirk, Sr., and Priscilla Frain Quirk. (Frains Lake was named after her mother's family). When the Quirks came to Ypsilanti in March of 1860, they made their home in a white frame house on the site of the present City Hall. The land was given to the city by the Quirks in 1914.
Her father, D. L. Quirk, Sr., helped to organize the First National Bank of Ypsilanti in 1863 and in 1886 he moved from the position of vice president to president of the bank.
Mrs. Cornwell, then Jennie Quirk, began her schooling at the Ypsilanti Seminary in 1865, now Ypsilanti High School. In 1876 she attended the Michigan State Normal College (now Eastern Michigan University) and was probably the school's oldest former student.
Edward Cornwell, her husband, died in 1848 (sic. should be 1948). The couple had no children.
Surviving, in addition to Mrs. Williams, Daniel Quirk, Buell Quirk and Mrs. Julia Krag, are a niece and a nephew, Bessie and George Younglove, Pomona, Calif.
Funeral Services will be conducted from Mrs. Cornwell's residence, at 3 p.m. Thursday, which was to be her 100th birthday, with Rev. Sidney S. Rood, rector of St. Luke's Episcopal Church, officiating. Burial will follow in Highland Cemetery.
Friends may call at the Geer Funeral Home beginning this evening and until 11 a.m. Thursday, after which they may call at the late residence until the hour of the funeral.
Mrs. Williams is expected here this afternoon and the governor is to be here for the funeral.
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Her first marriage was to Waters LaGorge Pack on November 16, 1883 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois.
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