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- Asher Dwight ALLEN, son of Deacon Loander and Almira
BABCOCK ALLEN,
- was born in the town of Milton, Wis., June 29, 1853, and
died at his home in Milton Junction, Wis., December 31, 1928,
being seventy-five and one half years old.
- His ancestors are traced back through New York and Rhode
Island to Scotland. His
- father was a brother of Jonathan ALLEN, for many years
the president of Alfred University at Alfred, N.Y. His father
came to Rock County, Wis., when he was seventeen years old, where
he made his home and spent his days. Asher was born here and
lived in and about Milton and Milton Junction all his life except
a few years in his early married life 1878-1880 which were spent
in Utica, Wis. At his death he still owned the old homestead
in the town of Lima, east of Milton though he had lived a number
of years in his home in Milton Junction.
- At about twenty-five years age he was married to Viola BROWN
of Berlin, Wis.
- They had no children. Mrs. ALLEN died Oct. 6, 1916.
After that, his older sister, Medelia, kept house for him for
a while, but he has lived alone for a number of years. For a
short time before his death Merritt VAN HORN and wife
have kept house for him and were with him to the last.
- Shortly after his marriage he became serious minded on account
of the severe illness
- of his younger sister, Dora, and according to his promise
to his Heavenly Father, after her recovery he was baptized and
united with the Milton Junction S.D.B. church, Sept. 17, 1881.
Here he was a faithful member till his death. He was faithful
in attendance upon the services of the church, including the
prayer meeting until it was physically impossible for him to
do so. His interest was with the church and it's work. He served
as trustee of the church continuously from 1911, when he succeeded
his father.
- Mr. ALLEN is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Medelia
AYRES of Panama City,
- Florida, who is five years his senior, and Mrs. Dora BIRMINGHAM
of Lansing, Michigan, who is ten years his junior, also other
relatives and friends and neighbors who hold in memory his beautiful
Christian life.
- Farewell services were conducted Thursday, January 3, 1929
at 2:30 p.m. from his
- home church at Milton Junction by his pastor, Rev. John F.
Randolph, assisted by Rev. E. E. Sutton. Interment was in Milton
Junction cemetery. [Thursday edition, p. 1]
- Thomas Wilber WOOLSTRUM was born in Pennsylvania,
April 6, 1853, the only
- son of Alpheus and Elizabeth WOOLSTRUM. The family
moved to Ohio where the father died and then Thomas and his mother
came to Milton Junction and bought a small farm.
- Mr. WOOLSTRUM was married to Sarah BABCOCK
in 1878. Three sons were
- born to them - Bert of Milton Junction, Walter of Granton,
Neb., and Henry of Marshfield, Wis. - all of whom survive. Mrs.
WOOLSTRUM died April 11, 1922, at the age of 66 years.
- Mr. WOOLSTRUM and his family lived on a farm near
Marshfield seventeen years.
- He returned to this vicinity eleven years ago.
- He passed away at Mercy hospital, Janesville, Dec. 27, 1928,
at the age of 75 years,
- 8 months and 21 days.
- Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Anton Hatlestad in
Gray and Albrecht's
- funeral parlors in Milton Junction with burial in Rock River
cemetery. The pallbearers were K. LIMA, George CRANDALL,
Jr., Harry HAYES and Fred SPLITTER. [Thursday
edition, p. 1]
- Miss Mildred [J.] GREEN, who was born in Milton Junction
in August, 1893, died at
- her home in Edgerton last Monday night. She is survived by
her father John GREEN and a sister Mrs. John ADEE
of Edgerton and a brother Ora GREEN of Janesville.
- Mildred was a strong child until she was about one and one-half
years old when she
- was very sick with typhoid fever and spinal meningitis which
left her with a crippled arm. After that she was healthy until
fourteen years ago when she fell on icy pavement and received
injuries which made her an invalid.
- The funeral was held Wednesday afternoon in the Methodist
church at Edgerton, Rev.
- R. J. Bailey officiating. Burial was in Fassett cemetery.
- Miss Maude ROSE, Mr. and Mrs. Harry GREEN,
Elmer VINCENT and Clarence
- SCHOONER attended from this vicinity. [Thursday
edition, p. 1]
- Mrs. Josephine SAUNDERS, sister of the late O. C.
GARTHWAITE, died at the
- home of her daughter, Mrs. W. L. HART at Cozad, Neb.,
Dec. 9, 1928. She is survived by two sons and four daughters.
- Josephine A. GARTHWAITE was born April 18, 1850, in
New York state, the
- youngest child of Henry and Mercy C. GARTHWAITE. The
family came to Wisconsin in 1852 and settled in the town or Milton.
- [Her first husband was Mr. MALLORY.] Her second husband
was D. J.
- SAUNDERS of Albion. They resided in Albion a number
of years and in 1892 they went to Nebraska. They lived in several
places in the west and south. Mr. SAUNDERS died in Texas
about six years ago.
- Two years ago Mrs. SAUNDERS spent the summer in this
locality making her
- headquarters with her niece Mrs. E. L. BARNES in Milton.
[Thursday edition, p. 1]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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