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- Mrs. Amy [Susette] WEST ALLEN, daughter of
Isaphena BURDICK and Wm. B.
- WEST was born at Utica, Dane county, Wisc., November
29, 1859, and died at Riverside, Calif., October 18, 1911.
- Mrs. ALLEN's childhood was spent in the home at Utica,
but being ambitious for an
- education she later attended school at Albion academy and
at Milton college, from which latter institution she was graduated.
She was for a number of years a successful teacher. In 1891
she was married to Wm. H. ALLEN of Alfred, New York, which
place became her home until after the death of her father the
family moved to Milton Junction to be near her widowed mother,
who survived the father but two years.
- Four years ago, on the advice of a physician counseling them
to seek a warmer
- climate, the family removed to Riverside, Calif.
- Mrs. ALLEN was a devoted wife and mother and leaves
three children, Isaphena,
- Franklin and Paul, to mourn her loss.
- Mrs. ALLEN joined the S.D.B. church of Utica in early
girlhood and has ever
- remained loyal to that faith, being an earnest worker in
the various churches of that denomination with which she has
been connected, teaching in the Sabbath school when health and
home duties would permit. Soon after going to Riverside she
organized the Junior Endeavor Society of which she remained superintendent
until about a year ago, when owing to failing health she was
obliged to give the work into other hands.
- Mrs. ALLEN was never in robust health, having suffered
from childhood with an
- affection of the heart which finally resulted in death after
an illness lasting nearly a year, during which she was tenderly
cared for by her devoted husband and family, assisted during
the last six weeks by her sister, Mrs. W. D. BURDICK,
of Farina, Ill.
- The funeral was held at the Riverside S.D.B. church, Friday,
October 20th, and the
- body placed in a receiving vault from which it will be later
removed and brought to Milton Junction for burial.
- Mrs. W. D. BURDICK of Farina, and Mr. Allen B. WEST
of Milton Junction, sister
- and brother of Mrs. ALLEN, are the only surviving
members of their father's family.
- Mrs. W. D. BURDICK of Farina, Ill., who has been in
Riverside, Calif., caring for
- her sister, returns this week to her home in Farina, bringing
Mrs. ALLEN's children with her. The family expect to
make Farina their home for a few years, and Mr. ALLEN
will join them there as soon as he is able to close out his interests
in California. [Thursday edition, p. 1]
- Word was received here this week of the death of Will [William
Whitford] PLATTS
- at Riverside, Calif., Sunday. He was accidentally killed
by a street car. His father, Rev. L. A. PLATTS, for
many years pastor of the Milton S.D.B. church is now the pastor
of the Riverside S.D.B. church. [Thursday edition, p. 1]
- A[doniram] Judson WELLS died Monday afternoon, after
a stroke of paralysis.
- Mr. WELLS was a veteran of the Civil War having served
in the Thirty-Second Wisconsin regiment, of which Col. George
A. PECK of Chicago was a member.
- The deceased had been a resident of this village for many
years and was highly
- respected as a citizen and as a neighbor. Since retiring
from active business an affection of the heart had been gradually
sapping his vitality and for some time he had been quite feeble.
He was 79 years of age.
- Left to mourn his loss are an aged wife and four sons; Dr.
W. B. WELLS, of
- Riverside, Cal.; F. C. WELLS, Battle Creek, Mich.;
and F. J. and W. S. WELLS of Milton.
- The funeral services were held this afternoon from the Milton
S.D.B. church, Rev. L.
- C. Randolph, officiating. The G.A.R. and W.R.C. attended
the funeral in a body and the former conducted the services at
the grave. Interment was made at Milton cemetery. [Thursday
edition, p. 1]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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