Champion - Mary - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal April 2, 1892

On the 17th of March at her home near Garfield, Mary Champion died after a short illness. The deceased had no knowledge of her early childhood but was born about the year 1853. Being left an orphan in the great city of New York she was taken up and cared for by the Children's Aid Society of that city. She, with many others, was brought to the West and placed in homes. She was taken by Samuel Clark and with him found a pleasant home from the time she was nine years old till she was married to Chester Champion. She received a careful Christian education and proved it in after life. She was a member of the. Christian church at Young's chapel, where she was loved by all who knew her. When she saw that recovery was very uncertain she was resigned to the Lord's will and said she was prepared to try the realities of the great beyond. She left a husband, one child and many friends to mourn, but their loss is her gain. - thanks to Kim H :)