HOWARD SPENCER
Died Suddenly at His Home Here January 24.
Howard Spencer died suddenly at noon Saturday, Jan. 24, at the age of 63 years, in his room over Tennant's Grocery where he lived since December 1910. Asthma troubled him in late years and a cold contracted about a week before his death brought on laryngitis which is given as the cause of his dissolution.
He was born on July 23, 1850, in Oxford, Canada. He moved to Wickware about 12 years ago and settled on a farm one mile west and two miles south of that place.
Mr. Spencer was respected for his uprightness in all his dealings and was a great reader and seeker of truth. A well known citizen paid him this high tribute, "If all people were as conscientious as Howard Spencer there would be no use for a hell."
The body was taken to North Branch for burial Monday morning and interred in St. Johns cemetery [Maple Grove Cemetery]. Deceased is survived by four brothers, John, Wm. H. and S.G. Spencer, all of North Branch, and Edw. Spencer of Oregon; one sister, Mrs. Lizzie Townsend of Caro; three half brothers, Lawn Spencer of Marlette, Sylvester Spencer of Alton, Genesee County, and Jack Spencer of Rose City, and two half sisters, Mrs. John Hopcroft of Bay City and Mrs. T.H. Lauman of North Branch.
(Cass City Chronicle, January 30, 1914, p. 1.)
Died Suddenly at His Home Here January 24.
Howard Spencer died suddenly at noon Saturday, Jan. 24, at the age of 63 years, in his room over Tennant's Grocery where he lived since December 1910. Asthma troubled him in late years and a cold contracted about a week before his death brought on laryngitis which is given as the cause of his dissolution.
He was born on July 23, 1850, in Oxford, Canada. He moved to Wickware about 12 years ago and settled on a farm one mile west and two miles south of that place.
Mr. Spencer was respected for his uprightness in all his dealings and was a great reader and seeker of truth. A well known citizen paid him this high tribute, "If all people were as conscientious as Howard Spencer there would be no use for a hell."
The body was taken to North Branch for burial Monday morning and interred in St. Johns cemetery [Maple Grove Cemetery]. Deceased is survived by four brothers, John, Wm. H. and S.G. Spencer, all of North Branch, and Edw. Spencer of Oregon; one sister, Mrs. Lizzie Townsend of Caro; three half brothers, Lawn Spencer of Marlette, Sylvester Spencer of Alton, Genesee County, and Jack Spencer of Rose City, and two half sisters, Mrs. John Hopcroft of Bay City and Mrs. T.H. Lauman of North Branch.
(Cass City Chronicle, January 30, 1914, p. 1.)
HOWARD SPENCER
Died Suddenly at His Home Here January 24.
Howard Spencer died suddenly at noon Saturday, Jan. 24, at the age of 63 years, in his room over Tennant's Grocery where he lived since December 1910. Asthma troubled him in late years and a cold contracted about a week before his death brought on laryngitis which is given as the cause of his dissolution.
He was born on July 23, 1850, in Oxford, Canada. He moved to Wickware about 12 years ago and settled on a farm one mile west and two miles south of that place.
Mr. Spencer was respected for his uprightness in all his dealings and was a great reader and seeker of truth. A well known citizen paid him this high tribute, "If all people were as conscientious as Howard Spencer there would be no use for a hell."
The body was taken to North Branch for burial Monday morning and interred in St. Johns cemetery [Maple Grove Cemetery]. Deceased is survived by four brothers, John, Wm. H. and S.G. Spencer, all of North Branch, and Edw. Spencer of Oregon; one sister, Mrs. Lizzie Townsend of Caro; three half brothers, Lawn Spencer of Marlette, Sylvester Spencer of Alton, Genesee County, and Jack Spencer of Rose City, and two half sisters, Mrs. John Hopcroft of Bay City and Mrs. T.H. Lauman of North Branch.
(Cass City Chronicle, January 30, 1914, p. 1.)
Died Suddenly at His Home Here January 24.
Howard Spencer died suddenly at noon Saturday, Jan. 24, at the age of 63 years, in his room over Tennant's Grocery where he lived since December 1910. Asthma troubled him in late years and a cold contracted about a week before his death brought on laryngitis which is given as the cause of his dissolution.
He was born on July 23, 1850, in Oxford, Canada. He moved to Wickware about 12 years ago and settled on a farm one mile west and two miles south of that place.
Mr. Spencer was respected for his uprightness in all his dealings and was a great reader and seeker of truth. A well known citizen paid him this high tribute, "If all people were as conscientious as Howard Spencer there would be no use for a hell."
The body was taken to North Branch for burial Monday morning and interred in St. Johns cemetery [Maple Grove Cemetery]. Deceased is survived by four brothers, John, Wm. H. and S.G. Spencer, all of North Branch, and Edw. Spencer of Oregon; one sister, Mrs. Lizzie Townsend of Caro; three half brothers, Lawn Spencer of Marlette, Sylvester Spencer of Alton, Genesee County, and Jack Spencer of Rose City, and two half sisters, Mrs. John Hopcroft of Bay City and Mrs. T.H. Lauman of North Branch.
(Cass City Chronicle, January 30, 1914, p. 1.)
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HOWARD SPENCER
1850 - 1914
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