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Milton Junction Telephone

February 1937

Milton Junction, Milton Twp., Rock Co., Wisconsin

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Nelson Corydon CLARKE, 75, who had suffered a stroke Sunday, died in his home
at Milton Junction Wednesday, Feb. 10th, at 11:30 a.m. Funeral services will be held at the Crandall funeral home, Milton, Friday at 2 p.m. with burial at Milton. Rev T. C. Nagler of the M. E. Church will officiate. Pallbearers will be Loren, Leroy, and Everard CRAIG, Berly BROWN, Harold RICHARDSON and Edward SPLITTER.
Mr. CLARKE was born March 5, 1862, in the town of Lima. On June 23, 1883,
he married Rosella D. HERITAGE who preceded him in death. He spent most of his life in the vicinity of Milton and Milton Junction. Early in life he attended a Chicago business college and at about the same time joined the Seventh Day Baptist church.
Three daughters survive - Mrs. John CRAIG of Lima, Mrs. Richard KRUEGER
and Mrs. William R. OSBORNE of Milton Junction, also seventeen grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Five other children died - Ella, Wilbur, Bernice, Mrs. Grace LEWIS and Mrs. Isabel STARKS. [Thursday edition, p. 1]
 
Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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Mrs. Helen GREENE, Milton, was found dead in her bed this morning by her
daughter, Mrs. Harry JACKSON. She apparently had died of a heart attack in her sleep.
Helen Louise SMITH was born May 16, 1877, in Johnstown and spent all of her life
in this vicinity with the exception of six years spent on a ranch in Oregon. She attended Milton schools and college and in 1895 was married to Edward M. GREENE who died in March, 1919, of influenza during the epidemic. He was a Spanish-American war veteran.
Besides her daughter, she is survived by two grandsons, also a sister, Mrs. Bertha
SKINNER, of Washington, D.C.
Funeral services will be held in the Congregational church, Milton, at 2:30 p.m.
Saturday. Rev. D. Q. Grabill, the pastor, will officiate. Burial will be in Milton. [Thursday edition, p. 1]
 
Courtesy of Jon Saunders

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