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- Caroline E. GRAY, daughter of Nathaniel and Alvira
(KENT) GRAY, was born in
- Walworth county, Wisconsin, in the town of Linn, near Lake
Geneva, October 3, 1847, and died at her home in Milton, June
27, 1924, at the age of 76 years. She is survived by a sister,
Elizabeth, of Milton, and a brother, Dexter of Johnstown.
- In 1857, the family moved into Rock county and settled on
a farm in Johnstown
- township. Caroline received a good education in the district
schools and the Whitewater Normal. She chose the teaching profession
as her life work and for 40 years was a very successful teacher.
She taught in Beloit for several years and held the principalship
of the Hackett school, finally giving up the work to care for
her mother in the declining years of her life.
- She was baptized and united with the Free-Will Baptist church
of North Johnstown,
- Wis., and has always been a member of that church.
- Funeral services were held at the home Tuesday afternoon
at 2:00 o'clock, the Rev. J.
- B. Gidney of Lima officiating. The interment was in the North
Johnstown cemetery. [Thursday edition, p. 1]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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- George W. LANPHERE, a veteran of the Civil War, passed
away at the home of
- his son, M. M. LANPHERE at Milton, Sunday afternoon
at 4 o'clock, July 13, 1924, after a week's illness of heart
trouble. He was 83 years, 5 months, and 16 days of age.
- Mr. LANPHERE was born January 27, 1841, at Bells Run,
Pa., a little town back in
- the mountains where his parents were pioneers. He came west
when about 17 years of age, but returned again to this Pennsylvania
home. When the Civil War broke out in 1861 he enlisted in February
of the same year at Ceres, Pa., in the 58th Pennsylvania Infantry.
While drilling with the soldiers he slipped on the icy ground
injuring one of his knees and was discharged from the army in
April, 1862. On December 24, 1862, Mr. LANPHERE was united
in marriage with Miss Frances MASON, of Nunda, New York,
at Bolivar, N.Y. In May, 1863, Mr. and Mrs. LANPHERE came
to Wisconsin and lived on a farm in Lima township during the
summer but returned to Pennsylvania in the fall. In October,
1863, at Lincoln's last call Mr. LANPHERE again enlisted
in the army, in the 85th New York Infantry, and served to the
end of the war. At the time of his final discharge he was eligible
to promotion as a lieutenant.
- In March, 1875, Mr. and Mrs. LANPHERE again came west
and settled on a farm
- in Lima township, where they lived four years and then moved
to Harmony where they purchased a farm where they made their
home for six years. They then sold their farm and moved to Pleasant
Grove, South Dakota, in 1887, and settled on a farm where they
lived until 1897, when they moved to North Loup, Nebraska. Here
they farmed until 1901, when they moved to Gentry, Arkansas,
where Mr. LANPHERE engaged in the fruit farming industry,
until 1908, when the family decided to return to Milton where
they purchased their present home and where they have continued
to reside since.
- Mr. LANPHERE united with the Seventh Day Baptist church
of Milton in 1875, and
- has remained an active member ever since. He has been a deacon
of the church for a number of years.
- Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. LANPHERE: Stiles
R., who passed away
- in Milton Feb. 11, 1923, and Martina M. LANPHERE,
who with Mrs. LANPHERE, and a sister, Mrs. Rose A. COOPER,
of Hecla, S. Dak., and a brother, Frank H. LANPHERE of
Ceres, N.Y., survive.
- The funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock
at the home of M. M.
- LANPHERE. The Rev. E. A. Witter of Walworth, a former
pastor and friend of the family officiated, assisted by Rev.
Shaw. A male quartet under the direction of Prof. STRINGER
rendered music. There was present a large number, including nine
members of the G.A.R. and fourteen of the W.R.C. Comrade LANPHERE
was one of the last two remaining charter members of the Milton
Post.
- Burial was made in the Milton cemetery. [Thursday edition,
p. 1]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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