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The Muskegon Chronicle
Monday, 13 October, 1930

         EARLY MUSKEGON RESIDENT EXPIRES
         
         MRS. CYNTHIA ROWLEY Came Here When
           City Was Lumber Camp
           
         By Staff Correspondent
         
         Grand Haven, Oct. 13, - MRS. CYNTHIA ROWLEY, said to
       have been one of the earliest white woman residents of
       Muskegon, died Saturday afternoon at the home of her
       son, G. A. WITHERELL, 211 1/2 Washington street, after
       a brief illness. MRS. ROWLEY was 88 years old. She was
       born near Auburn, N.Y., in 1842, and came to Muskegon
       with her parents when she was six years old. The family
       came across the lake from Racine, Wis., in a sailing
       vessel and landed at Green's creek. MR. SHEPHARD was
       a lumberman and well known among early residents of
       Muskegon. Most of MRS. ROWLEY'S life was spent in Muske-
       gon, although she had lived for several years in Menomi-
       nee and for the past 11 years had made her home with her
       son in Grand Haven.
       
         MRS> ROWLEY'S first marriage was to CAPT. JOHN WITHERELL,
       Sept. 26, 1859. CAPT. WITHERELL was a lake captain. He
       died Jan. 9, 1907. In 1910, MRS. WITHERELL was married to
       CALVIN C. ROWLEY in Grand Rapids. MR. ROWLEY died in 1914.
       MRS> ROWLEY was a member of the Lady Maccabees in Menomi-
       nee and joined the Methodist church in Muskegon in her
       early girlhood. Her early recollections of Muskegon were
       of a small lumbering community with a large Indian popu-
       lation. 
       
         MRS. ROWLEY is survived by her son, G. A. WITHERELL of
       this city; one sister, MRS. JOSEPHINE HARKNESS of 663
       Jackson street, Muskegon, who is in her 84th year; a
       step-daughter, MRS. OLEY FOUNTAIN of Muskegon; six grand-
       children, FRED M. TOWSE, of Honor, KENNETH KALMBACH, of
       Atlanta, Ga., MRS. JOSEPH SUSTERICH, GEORGE, FANNY and
       GERALD WITHERELL, all of Grand Haven.
       
         Funeral services are to be held Tuesday, Oct. 14, at
       2 p.m., fron the Van Zantwick Funeral Home, with Rev.
       Grant L. Jordan of the local Methodist church, in charge.
       Burial is to be in the Evergreen cemetery, Muskegon.
       
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