This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/558.607.924.923.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you for answering my query. I'm going to have to make this quick as are experiencing a storm with power outages. I went to Woodlawn Cemetery in Grand Rapids while there last spring for the GR Machine Knitters Seminars and the lady there was very helpful but it hadn't opened when the following obit was written. Oddly enough the family I'm looking for was in the Sparta area of Elgin Co. Ontario where we live now in 1860's then disappeared but this obit was found in the family and it's not in Sparta Ontario. We know some of the family moved to Michigan and ended up in Traverse City by 1900 but what happened in the meantime we don't know. Is there any cemetery transcriptions for Sparta, Michigan cemeteries? ANY HELP WILL BE APPRECIATED !!!!!' ---------- AN OLD CITIZEN CALLED HENCE - MR. GEORGE HORSMAN An old and respected citizen passed away last Sunday Sept. 28, 1902, after a brief illness. Though he had been in feeble health for a long time, having heart trouble especially, his final illness continued only about a week and in the form of pneumonia. Mr. Horsman was about 72 years of age and resided in Sparta since along in '67 or '68, being engaged in glove manufacturing and repairing almost up to the time when failing health compelled him to give up active work. His sterling qualities of mind and heart ever retained for him a high place in the esteem and respect of this community. His wife, Mrs. Jennie June Horsman and one daughter survive him. Funeral services were held at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon at the residence, North Water Street, Rev. E. W. Huelster, assisted by Rev. David Ferguson, officiating. The burial services were conducted under direction of Spartan Lodge I.O.O.F., of which deceased was a member. Interment in Woodlawn Cemetery.