This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Long, Cole, Lamereaux Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hFB.2ACE/1670.1 Message Board Post: Ms. Lowe, Here are the obits you were looking for below. Could not find anything in the Lansing newspapers of the time. Timothy Bowman, Lansing, Michigan *********************************************************************************** 1. Copied from Ingham County News; Mason, Michigan; Thu.Aug.9-1888, page 8, column 2. DELHI The funeral of Wm. Long was held from his late residence last Friday afternoon and was largely attended by many sorrowing friends. Rev. Luther Littell of Morrice preached a very able discourse from the following text: 2 Cor. 5; 1. "For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." *********************************************************************************** 2. Copied from Ingham County News; Mason, Michigan; Thu.July 13-1899, page 8, column 4. Holt Mr. Den Long died of dropsy Monday morning. He was an old resident and very highly respected. *********************************************************************************** 3. Copied from Ingham County News; Mason, Michigan; Thu.Feb.13-1919, page 1, column 6. Woman Resident Of Holt Over Seventy Years Dies Mrs. Jennie Long, Aged 98 Years, Died Saturday Mrs. Jennie Long, died at her home north of Holt, Saturday morning. She is the last of the pioneer women, who came to Holt over seventy years ago with her husband, Dennis Long. They came by stage through the unsettled country to Holt, where they purchased a farm, cleared it and have lived there ever since. She has always enjoyed the best of health until the last few weeks. She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Eunice Service, one grand-daughter, Mrs. Earl Lamereaux and three great-grandchildren, Leonard, Kenneth and Robert Lamereaux. The funeral services were at the home Monday at 2 o'clock, interment at Maple Ridge cemetery.