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| Early Families Byron Michigan, Cole | ||||
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AUNT HATTIE COLE |
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1913 Aunt Hattie E. Cole retires and town of Byron much regrets it. The announcement in the Herald here signed with business-like consciousness of Hattie E. Cole and announcing that the writer is about to retire from the area brought feelings of regret to everyone who has ever traded in Byron. Evidently the writer feels regret too for the card though brief, speaks with unconscious pathos of the good times while in Byron. It is an odd and affecting touch too, the frankly admission that the determination to sell out is due to physical and perhaps mental inability to longer continue in business. Hattie Cole is to everyone in the southern part of the county and most of Livingston county as well, beloved “Aunt Hattie Cole” who has been in business in Byron for the past quarter of a century. The lady now well along in the seventies established a small dry goods stock here in a diminutive frame store, but her perennial cheerfulness and the quality of her goods brought generous patronage, and she prospered steadily. Today, she owns and operates a fine, large brick block, one of the best in Byron and lives in one of the pleasant rooms over the store. Aunt Hattie who has no near relations, saved her money and has enough to keep her comfortably where-ever she may elect for the balance of her days. She has long been widowed and has no children. Note: Hattie’s store is now occupied by “New Image” beauty salon. Also please note that Hattie was an accomplished poet and wrote a multitude of poems for many occasions, notably deaths.
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