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Eaton Pioneer dies at 102
Eaton Rapids - Mrs. Jessie HALL, 102, daughter of a pioneer family in Eaton
County, died Wednesday.
She had been a patient in the Eaton County Medical Care facility for the past
four-and-a-half years.
A Former rural school teacher, she obtained her teaching certificate
from Ypsilanti Normal.
Mrs. Hall was born into a family of eight children of Warren and Olive BELLOWS
who had come from Vermont to settle on a farm on Smith Road.
"She used to tell how she rode the horse while a sister hung onto to the one-
horse cultivator," her son, Warren of Eaton Rapids, recalled. Another son, John, died in an auto
accident in 1938
She Married Hugh M. HALL in 1894 when they were both 19. He died in 1959
shortly after celebrating their 65th wedding anniversary.
Services will be Friday at 2 p.m. in the Shelly Funeral Home.
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