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- Etta M. PALMER, youngest child of William H. and Sarah
PALMER, was born in
- Alexander County, Ill., September 12, 1868.
- While young, Etta's mother with her fatherless children moved
to Grant County, Wis.
- Mrs. PALMER married Morris E. CRANDALL and
they settled near Utica, Wis., when Etta was eight years old
remaining there till she was sixteen at which time they moved
to Milton Junction.
- On March 28, 1894, Etta was united in marriage to Fred M.
CARR of Milton. This
- vicinity has been their home with the exception of six years
spent in Wood County, Wis.
- Three children, a son, J. Haldone, who served his country
during the World War in the
- 32nd Division in France, and daughters Maud I. and Alice
E. with their father are left to miss a loving mother and wife.
Mrs. CARR also leaves two sisters, Mrs. W. F. TUTTLE,
Madison, Wis., and Mrs. S. D. HARTWELL, St. Paul, Minn.,
and three brothers, S. J. PALMER, Sheridan, Wyoming, Will
PALMER, Bethel, Wis., and Geo. PALMER, Dawson,
Minn., also a step-brother, O. G. CRANDALL and a step-sister,
Mrs. M. G. STILLMAN, Lost Creek, W. Va., besides many
other relatives. Her two sisters and brother, S. J. PALMER,
were with her during the last days of her sickness, which ended
October 1, 1919. Mrs. CARR was reared in the S.D. Adventist
faith and united with that church.
- Eld. E. F. Ferris assisted by A. G. Johnson conducted the
funeral services on Friday
- October 3. Words of comfort were spoken to the many relatives
and friends who gathered to show their regard for the one, who
like her Saviour whom she had tried to follow, delighted in ministering
to the needs of others.
- The remains were interred in the Milton cemetery.
- Among those from out of town who attended the funeral were:
W. F. TUTTLE, Mrs.
- F. M. ROGERS and Mrs. J. P. VERNER from Madison,
Wis., and Mrs. E. D. CRANDALL, Edgerton, Wis. [Thursday
edition, p. 1]
-
- [Her first name was actually Maryetta.]
-
- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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