Coopersville Observer, March 29, 1901

Garrett See was born in Wayne County N. Y. in the fall of 1838, and died of apoplexy, March 19, 1901, at Kalamazoo, Michigan, in his sixty-fourth year. He came to Michigan while but a youth and was among the first to enter the ranks of the Union Army in the War of the Rebellion. His career in the war was short, being wounded in the first battle, for which he was honorably discharged. At the age of thirty-five he was married, but he had no children. He was converted in the Wesleyan Methodist Church and worked on the meeting house which now stands at Allendale Center. He was well educated and after his conversion became an earnest student of the Bible.

In some way his brain became diseased and caused disarrangement of his mind, which after a time became so severe as to require care at the asylum at Kalamazoo, of which he was an inmate for twenty-four years, until the day of his death. His insanity was so mild a form that he was employed as cook and baker in the asylum. At times he would recognize his friends, at other times he did not.

On Tuesday night, March 18, he retired as well apparently as usual, but was found the next morning unconscious with apoplexy, of which he died the same morning. The remains were brought to Allendale for interment. He leaves five brothers and five sisters.

The funeral was held in the White school house, near where he once lived, because of the condition of the roads and lateness of the hour of arrival by way of Grand Haven.

The text used by the writer was Hebrews 9:27; "It is appointed unto men once to die, but after that the judgment."

By S. J. Young

(Garrett See served in the 15^th Illinois, Co. C. He lost a hand in the Battle of Shiloh in April 1862.)