. SEPTEMBER 27, 1907• LOSES HIS MOTHERIS M, N. - RYDER, FORMERLY OF* TROUT CREEK, IN MICHIGANa ON A 8AD ERRAND.jr. I _ia Ih I The Ledger Is In receipt of a com* i- I municatlon from M. N, Ryder, formerly located at Trout Creek, and later at r I Plains. He is now at hla old home at y I Marshall, Mich., and recently suffered an Irreparable loss In the death of his -1 mother. The Marshall, Mtcfi., paper- | pays the following tribute to the late I Mrs. Ryder:o I ■. The funeral of Mrs. Hiram M. Ryder a occurred this afterijpon at two o’clock o at the late residence. Rev. T. DeWltt0 Tanner of Albion, read the Episcopal I service.I Mary E. Smltty yvaaJfcorn In/Norwlch.-1 Vt.. Septemfc^r 12, 1,832. 8he was but Ian infant wh'enndr removed to1 this state. Her father, Cephas Smith,- I made the Journey to Michigan In a- one-horse wagon and bought 40 acres upon which part of the city of De- ,. I trolt now stands, but immediately ex-i changed It for a half section of land n in Bedford and resided In the vicinity of Battle Creek until the time of his i -I death in 1887.Had Mrs. Ryder's life, been spared a i . I few weeks longer she would have , I reached the fiftieth anniversary of her I marriage to Mr. Ryder, which occurred Jin October. 1857. One. child, Myron.I was bom to them.i Mrs. Ryder was an acute sufferer (during her Illness, but not a murmur ■ escaped her lips through It all. She I was the soul of patience and fortitude I which had been exemplifiedall I through her life, no matter how sorely I she may have been tried at tfmes.I Her Influence will abide In the lives of [those who were closest and dearest to p«r. The husband and son have the lt;[profound sympathy of the community t I in their affliction. „ la