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children of her own but had endeared herself to her stepchildren, one
son and two daughters, by all those ties of love and fctithful devotion
which made he-.r one of the truest, and best of mothers. She leaves two
sisters, one older the other younger than herself who live in the State of
New 'York.
Her long affliction so patiently borne came to a happy and peaceful
end at 2 o'clock, Monday morning, April 14, 1890, at Marhall.
HENRY 31. CRONIN.
Mr. Cronin died at 6 o'clock, Friday morning, April 11, 1890. He
was born at Ypsilanti, Washtenaw county, Mich., Jan. 31, 1836, and
the next year was brought to Marshall, where he has since had his
home. While he was a lad hie attended school, and afterwards, for
several years, clerked in the store of his brother, the late Jeremiah
Cronin, Jr. In 1869, he and his brother Thomas L. began business for
themselves, opening. a grocery stock *in the west store of the Stuart
stone block. That the business of the firm was a successful one is
attested by the beautiful double building which they erected and occupied in 1876. He was never married, but always resided with his
parents has long as they lived, and since with his sister, Mrs.
Lizzie Devereaux, devoting such time as he had from business to their
happiness and comfort.
MRS. PUTNAM ROOT.
Mary J. Cary was born Feb. 6, 1819, at Pompey, Onondaga county,
N. Y. When quite young she moved with her parents to Barre, Orleans
county, and at the age of 14 came to Fredonia, Mich., where, on the
'23d of November, 1837, she was married to Putnam Root and went to
the home which she occupied at the time of her death.
For more than half a century Mrs. Root was known in the home as
an affectionate wife and loving mother and in the neighborhood as a kind
and obliging friend.
Coming as she did into a new country, she endured thi3 privations
incident to pioneer life with a cheerful and hopeful spirit, never thinking of self. but for the comfort of those around her.
She, with her estimable husband, lived to see the wilderness blossom
like the rose. Truly "her children rise up and call her blessed," for her
daily life ever exemplified the religion of Christ.
Six children, two sons and four daughters, survive her.
0, the memory of our mother,
In our hearts will ever dwell,
Like sweet incense; and no other
Love like hers our livos can fill.