Adaline (Loomis) EARLY

LOOMIS, EARLY, PATTERSON, WILSON

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 5/23/2011 at 22:06:54

July 23, 1820 --- 1897

Adaline Early Dead.

Sister of Mary Loomis Passes Away – Matters Relating to the Estate.

The death of Mary Loomis last week and burial Sunday was followed quickly by the decease of her sister, Mrs. Adaline Early, who breathed her last Sunday night, a few hours after her sister was laid in the tomb. As stated last week, Mrs. Early came to her sister’s bedside from Chicago when it was certain she could not live and on the journey here contracted a cold and was taken sick in bed on the very day of her sister’s death. Mrs. Early has lived in Chicago for many years, was 77 years old and was quite wealthy but in feeble health. She is reported to have been worth from fifty to sixty thousand dollars. It is thought that two other sisters and a brother survive them. The brother is Arthur Loomis of Belmond, Iowa, and is now here. One sister, Mrs. Lucius Patterson, the wife of Lucius Patterson, deceased, who is an early day owned the first saw mill in this place, is supposed to reside in Grand Rapids, but her whereabouts is not at present known. Patterson was a lawyer well known in Grand Rapids, where he practiced, and this place was called Patterson’s Mills for a number of years. The other sister is supposed to be alive and residingsomewhere in California.

When Mary was informed she could not live, Wm. J. Wilson was sent for and made the papers exactly to her liking, she dictating what disposition should be made of her estate. She gave a deed of the farm, consisting of forty acres to her sister, Mrs. Early, and made a will of all her personal property, which included the four horses, cow, household goods, and farming implements, and $868 in cash on deposit in the Belding Savings Bank. She named Mr. Wilson as executor and instructed that she wanted Mrs. Patterson to have $400, her California sister, if living, to have $400, and her brother in Belmond, Iowa, to have $400. The decease of Mrs. Early will complicate matters somewhat but without doubt she had previously made provision regarding her Chicago property, and what she has acquired by the death of Miss Loomis will of necessity have to be probated in this county. Horatio Wilson, the son-in-law of Mrs. Early, who has been here from Chicago, desires that the property should be distributed among the heirs of the Loomis estate according to her request. Mrs. Patterson of Grand Rapids is over eighty years old and has two sons. One of them is George Patterson, quite well known around here as of a roving disposition and addicted somewhat to intoxicants. It was understood that Mary did not want him to have any of her property. The funeral service was held Wednesday and her remains now rest in the Otisco [Michigan] cemetery by the side of her father, mother, brother and sister.