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- Horace G[ordon] MAXSON, who had been in ill health
the past twelve years, died
- very suddenly Jan. 3rd in his home in Milton.
- Funeral services were held in his home Saturday afternoon,
Jan. 6th, Rev. Carroll L.
- Hill officiating and being assisted by Dr. Edwin Hill. Burial
was in Milton cemetery, Du Lac lodge. I.O.O.F., of which he was
a member, assisting at the grave. The pallbearers were W. K.
DAVIS of Waukesha, Leman ROOD of Edgerton, G. R.
BOSS, S. N. LOWTHER, J. N. DALAND and Virgil
SCOTT of Milton.
- Out-of-town relatives who attended the service were Mr. and
Mrs. Fern FULLER of
- Watertown and Miss Leta FULLER of Milwaukee.
- Mr. MAXSON was one of the twelve children of Varnum
and Lura MAXSON and
- was born July 17, 1856, in Maine Settlement, N.Y. Most of
his early life was spent there except the years at Alfred University,
N.Y. He joined the Seventh Day Baptist Church when 17 years old.
- He came to Wisconsin in 1886 and married Fannie FULLER
on September 23rd of
- that year. They have lived in Milton since, with the exception
of two years, when they resided in Boulder Colorado, because
of his health. Mr. and Mrs. MAXSON were familiarly known
as "Ma" and "Pa" MAXSON.
- Surviving are his wife and two brothers, Alton MAXSON
of Bellrun, Penn., and
- Hartley of Rochester, N.Y. Three sisters and six brothers
preceded him in death. [Thursday edition, p. 1]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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- Mrs. Luella Emily BARNHART BOSS, died in her home
in Milton, Saturday
- morning. She had been a semi-invalid for several years.
- She was born in the town of Harmony, Aug. 28, 1864, the second
daughter of Albert
- and Emily CLARKE BARNHART. After attending
Milton college she taught several years and then graduated from
the Cook Co. Hospital Nurses Training School. She practiced
nursing in Milton and vicinity until she became a bookkeeper
in the Bank of Milton from which position she resigned to become
the bride of Mr. Louis BOSS. Mr. and Mrs. BOSS
lived on a farm on the River Road until his death, Dec. 25, 1917.
She had been a resident of Milton since her husband's death,
and before her health failed, was an active member of the Seventh-day
Baptist church, the Rebekah lodge, the Women's Relief Corps and
King's Daughters.
- One sister survives, Mrs. George H. SAUNDERS, Milton,
four nephews, Jesse
- SAUNDERS and Paul SAYRE of Milton; Gerald SAYRE,
Cornwall On Hudson, N.Y.; and Merton SAYRE, Roswell, N.
Mexico; three nieces, E. Gladys SAUNDERS, and Mrs. Ethel
SHADEL, Milton and Mrs. Ruth BENNETT, Edgerton;
also a number of cousins.
- Funeral services were held Monday, Jan. 15 at the Congregational
church, conducted
- by Rev. Carroll L. Hill, assisted by Prof. Edwin Shaw.
Two selections were rendered by Kenneth BABCOCK, accompanied
by Mrs. W. E. ROGERS. Pallbearers were O. C. CLOUSER,
Bert CAREY, Arthur TRAYNOR, Byron ROOD,
Merton BURDICK and A. A. CHADSEY. Interment was
in the Milton cemetery. [Thursday edition, p. 2]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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