MRS EMMA L. LOOMISBorn in Belleville.
The Enterprise, published in Scottsville, Mich., prints the following on the death of a former Belleville resident. A beautiful career of exceptional and uplifting devotion was brought after to a peaceful close in the death Sunday morning of Mrs. Emma L. Loomis of this city. After ten years of patient suffering she underwent an operation for cancer of the stomach at Paulina Stearns hospital Saturday, but her nearly three score and ten years weighed too heavily against her chance for recovery and at 9:30 o'clock the following morning death came. She was conscious almost to the last. Miss Ema Lotitia Littlefield, the daughter of William and Polly S. Littlefield, was born in Belleville, New York, February 5, 1846. She resided there until she was twenty-seven years of age, when she was united in marriage to Asa M. Bishop. One daughter was born to the couple, Mrs. David Falconer of this city. Mr. Bishop passed away in 1877. One year later, in 1878, Mrs. Bishop came to Scottsville, where she retained her residence until death. For the four years following her bereavement she taught school in this city and in Belleville. While here she made the acquaintance of E. W. Loomis, to whom she was married in August, 1881, and who is left to mourn his great loss. No children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Loomis. They adopted a baby girl, who is now Mrs. Ray Bentley of Pontiac, and the latter learned to love them with the deep affection of a real daughter. Mrs. Loomis was a member of the County Teachers' Examining Board, and always maintained an active interest in the schools In the Woman's Christian Temperance Union Mrs. Loomis held active interest for many years, was at one time district president and when Mason couty was organized held the office of county president, and always some local office while the Scottsville union existed. She was also state superintendent of franchise in this society for many years and almost to the day of her death contrived, by letter or conversation, to make her influence felt for temperance and equal suffrage. In spite of her active public work, Mrs Loomis was devoted to her home. When sixteen years of age, Mrs. Loomis identified herself with the Baptist church in Belleville, and from that time on was noted for her devotion to work of a religious and educational nature She was one of the principal organizers of the Scottsville baptist church, and when the latter was disbanded she became a member of the Ludington Baptist church. In the early fall Mrs. Loomis, in company with her daughter, Mrs.Falconer, visited her girlhood home in Belleville, New York, and had the great pleasure of visiting relatives and friends whom she had not seen in many years and of attending chapel and addressing the students in the academy where she formerly taught This visit seemed to be the rounding out and completion of her splendid life. Though Mrs. Loomis seemed no worse for the journey she no longer resisted with her accustomed fortitude the malady that was sapping her life, and grew weaker and more ill. The immediate surviving relatives are the widowed husband, the daughters, Mrs. David Falconer of Scottville, and Mrs. Ray Bentley of Pontiac, all of whom have been in attendance upon the sufferer since her going to the hospital; Mrs. Falconer's children, a sister, Mrs. Minnie Scott of Scottville and one brother, Wallace Littlefield of Flint The latter is aged and infirm and was unable to attend the funeral The funeral was conducted from Methodist Episcopal church this city at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon Interment was in the family lot at Brookside.
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