Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Soule, David B. April 26, 1900 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nan Wheaton wheaton1624@yahoo.com June 20, 2016, 12:57 pm Ionia Sentinel - Thursday, Aug. 30, 1900 A Pioneer of the County and Eighteen Years Resident of the City. David B. Soule, who has been a resident of Ionia county since the fifties, and who for 18 years was a resident of this city, died Sunday evening at the home of his son in Sunfield. Mr. Soule was 77 years of age, and came to Michigan from Bridgewater, Oneida county, New York, in 1855, settling if the village of Ionia, where he was three times elected a justice of the peace and was a good honest citizen. He was a wagon maker at south Ionia. In 1874, he bought a farm in Sebewa and moved thereon, following the occupation of farming until a year ago when he went to Lake Odessa to live and four weeks ago his health was such that he went to the home of his son, O.L. Soule, in Sunfield, where he died. Mr. Soule was married in the forties to Miss Maria H. Hubbell, a sister of the late Alonzo Hubbell. The lived happily together until three years ago when she died, and a year later their only daughter, Mrs. Henry Rodebaugh, also passed away. The other two children survive the father, O.O. Soule, of Sunfield, and H.A. Soule of this city. The remains of the deceased were brought to Ionia Tuesday, and the funeral service held from the Church of Christ at 11:30 a.m.; interment in Highland Park cemetery by the side of the deceased wife. Additional Comments: Funeral: Tuesday, Aug. 28, 1900 Highland Park cemetery - Sect. #4 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/s/soule32871nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb