Death Of Mrs. Geo. W. B Ills

Emma D. Briggs, the wife of George W. Bullis, died at their new residence on Washtenaw ave. last Monday morning and her funeral took place on Wednesday afternoon, Kev. J. T. Sunderland ofticiating. Mrs. Bullis had suffered for some months with a disease known to physicians as Multiple Sarcoma and her death was uot unexpected. She was born near Attica in the State of New York fifty-six years ago, and carne to Michigan when about twelve years of age with her párente, who settled on a farm at Lacey in Barry county, on which her aged father still resides. Her father was born in eastern Massachusetts and came of good old Puritan stock, and these are now heir looms in the family, which came over in the Mayflowcr. Mrs. Bullis leaves a husband, Capt. George W. Bullis, and four children, Mrs. N. B. Higgins, Miss Carlotta B. Bullis, Miss Clementina Bullis and Justin Bullis. Pour brothers and one sister also survive her. Her death seems an especially sad one as it is but a few weeks since the family moved into their new and beautiful home on Washtenaw ave., planned by Mr. and Virs. Bullis and erected without regard to expense, as they hoped to spend there together the evening of their days. Mrs. Bullis was a woman of marked individuality, sound judgment and solid sense. There was no affectation, sham or pretonse about her. She was gentle, frank, honest and sincere in all things, unostentatious and devoted to her family and hei1 home. She possessed much of the Puritan spirit of her ancestors, and when her country, at the beginning of the great rebellion, called for the services of its sons, this young wifo and mother, forgetting self, cheerully consented that her husband hould respond to the demands of pariotism and duty. Economical and inustrious, thoughtful of little things, he was a faithful helpmate to the husband of her youth. Her place in the tricken household can never be supplied, but her virtues, by those who mew her well, can never be forgotten, and to husband, children and frionds he remembrance and influence of her unselfish and beautiful Ufe will ever be an inspiration and benediction.