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- Mrs. Adeline BABCOCK
- Mrs. Adeline BABCOCK, 23, a lifelong resident of this
city, died Sunday morning at
- Mercy Hospital following a three weeks illness. Adeline BROWN
was born in Janesville, May 22, 1904. She was married to Charles
BABCOCK in 1922. One daughter was born of this union.
- Mrs. BABCOCK is survived by her husband, 331 N. Franklin
Street, one daughter;
- a brother Irvin BROWN, Janesville, and one sister,
Mrs. Chester BABCOCK, Waukesha. Mrs. BABCOCK was
active in First Christian Church services.
- Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at the
Whaley Funeral Parlors, with
- the Rev. E. A. Gillilarid, First Christian Church, officiating.
Burial will be in Oak Hill cemetery.
-
- (Submitter: Matt Brown)
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- Historic West Magnolia Cemetery, Abandoned Long Time,
Is Again Being Used [photo]
- By Peg O'BRIEN
-
- Evansville - Soon after the first of the year, the
West Magnolia Cemetery association, reorganized and reinstated
after years of inactivity, will elect officers and start doing
business again with a perpetual fund amounting to nearly $2,000
as a substantial stimulus of interest.
- Four years ago a few men having relatives buried in the West
Magnolia Cemetery
- instituted a perpetual care fund after having done much actual
labor towards restoring the grounds to their original state.
They cut away the underbrush and got the grounds into condition
so that all of the lots could be mowed.
-
- Now Being Used - They then renewed interest in the
association by writing to relatives of those buried in the cemetery.
More than 75 letters were sent out to all parts of the country
with the result that $1,700 has been raised for perpetual upkeep.
- Since the cemetery has been receiving attention it is being
used as a burying ground
- again for the first time in several years. Ralph HARVEY,
Charles E. MOORE, W. D. ANDREW, R. A. ACHESON
and Ernest CLIFFORD have been the most active in promoting
the reorganization activities, as all of these men have relatives
buried in the cemetery.
-
- Is 83 Years Old - One of the oldest cemeteries in
this vicinity, the grounds are laid out in the centery of Magnolia
township. As early as 1844 the land was being used as a burying
ground. A meeting was held Dec. 2, 1844 at which time it was
decided to grub out the timber. Dennis SHARON owned the
land, which was sold for $30 for the three acres. It was voted
to pay the $30, then considered a substantial sum, to the officers
of Magnolia township, a three year period being allowed for payment.
- The first formal meeting of the cemetery association was
held in January, 1855, in the
- J. A. DUNBAR house, formerly the Magnolia House, built
in 1841. Dennis SHARON was named as superintendent and
William MORRELL as sexton. It was voted to pay the sexton
not more than $2 for the digging of a grave. This was no mean
task as much of the cemetery was imbedded in limestone.
-
- Veterans of 1812 Buried - No deeds were given for
the lots but the lot holders' names were written in the plat
held by the treasurer. In 1858 the records show the following
men as trustees, R. W. HINKLEY, William SLAWSON,
George PATERSON [PATTERSON], with Henry PARTRIDGE
as treasurer, and J. A. DUNBAR as clerk. When the cemetery
was discontinued on the site of the Pioneer Drug Store, many
of the bodies were removed to the Magnolia cemetery. Two veterans
of the war of 1812, David CLIFFORD and William MOORE,
and seven soldiers of the Civil war are buried in this cemetery
as well as many pioneers who were active in settling Rock county.
- Others who are buried here include: David ACHESON
and Christopher PRENTICE,
- who died in 1851, the latter having kept a store at Magnolia
Corners during the Civil war; William B. ACHESON, 1862;
J. R. WHITNEY, a blacksmith at Magnolia who invented the
first riding plow, the pattern of which was later stolen from
him, was buried here in 1895.
- Other old settlers include: William HUYKE, H. ASH,
Aaron BROUGHTON, B.
- BROUGHTON, George SMITH, Robert WARN,
A. W. HINKLEY, James H. SMITH, John A. ROBSON,
Joshua DUNBAR, Caleb B. CURTIS, George CHRISTMAN,
Richard THURMAN, John THURMAN, John RICHMOND,
George TOWNSEND, A. MOORE, Malcolm HARPER,
Frank CLIFFORD, David CLIFFORD, Elizabeth SHERGER,
G. G. LETTS, Seymour JANES, Olive HANDY.
Ninety lots are included in the grounds.
-
- [Note: West Magnolia Cemetery is now called Maple Grove
Cemetery.]
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