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- Miss Lucy [M.] HALL, one of our oldest town residents,
after an illness of some
- months, passed away last Thursday morning, November 16.
She was born in Alfred, N.Y., March 26, 1835 - more than 87
years ago. She was the last of a family of six children born
to Gardiner and Nancy STILLMAN HALL and was laid
to rest beside her father and mother in the Rock River Cemetery.
- The HALL family made the journey from Allegany Co.,
N.Y., in 1839 when Lucy
- was but four years of age and settled on a farm near Lima,
Wis. Later they moved to a farm at Rock River where they lived
for many years and where they enjoyed a large circle of friends
and acquaintenances.
- Those who knew Miss HALL speak of her in terms of
highest praise. She was a
- Christian woman of sturdy type and embodied those graces
which endeared her to all her friends and acquaintenances.
Sunshiny in disposition she radiated good cheer and caused the
sun to shine in many a life where darkness and gloom would otherwise
have reigned. She was an unselfish woman finding her chief
joy in helping others and will be greatly missed by her many
friends. She untied in early girlhood with the Milton S.D.B.
church but later transferred her membership to the Milton Junction
church of which she was a member at the time of her death.
- Funeral services were conducted from her late home in Milton
by her pastor, Rev. E.
- D. Van Horn, assisted by the Rev. H. N. Jordan, pastor of
the Milton church. Beautiful floral offerings testified to
the esteem of which she was held. Appropriate music was furnished
by the Junction choir under the leadership of Mrs. Edward HULL.
- Those from out of town who attended the services were Mr.
and Mrs. Frank C.
- HALL, Manchester, Ia., Mr. Chas. McGLAUCHLIN,
Mrs. Will RAYMOND, Mrs. Geo. Lowe, Miss Hanna McGLAUCHLIN,
Beloit, Wis., Mr. and Mrs. Louis DAMUTH, Mrs. Paul STROUD,
Elkhorn, Mr. and Mrs. Al BUSS, Clinton, Mrs. Ella BROWN,
Edgerton, and Mr. Clarence CURTIS, Fort Atkinson. [Thursday
edition, p. 1]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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