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Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott
April 4, 2011
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OBITUARY OF JULIA ANN WITHERELL
The Muskegon Chronicle Special
Monday, August 7, 1895

Mrs. Julia Ann Witherell, aged eighty-eight years died today.  She
came to Muskegon in '47 with her husband, J. C. Witherell, who built
and operated the first sawmill in this city, it being on Mona Lake.
He also built the first three mills on Muskegon Lake, which afterward
became famous for it's numerous saw mills.

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Muskegon Weekly Chronicle
August 15, 1895

Mrs. Julia A. Witherell----Among the early settlers identified with
Muskegon and it's development, few, if any were better known than was
Mrs. Julia A. Witherell, who died on August 7, 1895.  She had been
sick and blind since March 25, 1870.  Mrs. Witherell was born in
Aurora, Stueuben County, N.Y on the 24th of October 1807.  She came to
Soulesville, Mich., fifty-six years ago, from thence with her husband
to Grand Haven and thence to Mona Lake, where her husband built the
first saw-mill, making use of the small stream for water power.  Mr.
Witherell was a carpenter ans assisted in building some of the first
mills in Muskegon, particularly that of Wm. Lasely, the father of S.
H. Lasley, now register of deeds.  Mr. Witherell died in 1851.

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