Person:Alida Elbers (1)

Obituary

 Ella Elbers was born March 26th 1868 one and a half miles southwest of Coopersville and passed away on March 20th 1925 at the home of her brother, Luke Elbers.  She was a resident of Polkton township all her life except for a few years when she was a nurse at the Howell Sanitarium.
 She made confession of her faith during the pastorate of Rev. DeYoung on December 27, 1913, and when at the end of a troubled life, death came, she was not afraid but clung to Him whose blood she trusted.  God gave her dying grace.
 Surviving are five brothers and two sisters, Henry, John and Luke of this village; Fred of Muskegon Heights; (Mrs.) Ben Bosink of Big Rapids; Mrs. Minnie Mulder and Mrs. Hattie Reed of Coopersville.
 The funeral service at the home was conducted by Elder John H. TerAvest and at the Reformed church by the pastor Rev. H. Hoff.  The floral offerings were numerous and beautiful and showed the high regard in which the deceased was held.  Interment was made in the Eastmanville Cemetery.
 Source Coopersville Observer, Friday, April 10, 1925.

Coopersville Observer, Friday, April 10, 1925.

1. ↑ Livingston, Michigan, United States. 1920 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   ED: 152 Page: 3B, 1920.

   "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZQQ-SWW : accessed 12 July 2015), Ella Elbers in household of Fred L Stoddard, Marion, Livingston, Michigan, United States; citing sheet 3B, family 45, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,820,780.

2. ↑ Ella Elbers, in Find A Grave.
3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Michigan, United States. Michigan, Death Certificates, 1921-1952
   1925.

   Name: Ella Platt
   Event Type: Death
   Event Date: 20 Mar 1925
   Event Place: Coopersville, Ottawa, Michigan, United States
   Gender: Female
   Age: 56
   Marital Status: Married
   Birth Date: 26 Mar 1868
   Birthplace: Michigan
   Birth Year (Estimated): 1869
   Father's Name: Louis Elbers
   Mother's Name: Ellen Bradavelt
   
   "Michigan Death Certificates, 1921-1952," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KF79-56L : accessed 16 July 2015), Ella Platt, 20 Mar 1925; citing Coopersville, Ottawa, Michigan, United States, Division for Vital Records and Health Statistics, Lansing; FHL microfilm 1,973,071.

4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3} Obituary, in Conklin, Ottawa, Michigan, United States. Coopersville Observer (Coopersville, Michigan).

   Friday, April 10, 1925.

5. ↑ Michigan Births and Christenings, 1775-1995..

   Her name is Lydia in the record, and it includes parents names.