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- Mrs. Caroline Z[ilpha] GREENMAN
was the daughter of Elijah and Polly
- GOODRICH,
and was born July 3, 1826, in "GOODRICH Hollow,"
town of Hancock, Berkshire Co., Mass. She came with her parents
to Milton, Wis. around 1849, via the Erie canal; around the Great
Lakes to Milwaukee; and then out through the woods, the oak openings,
and over the wild prairie to Milton, Wisconsin, by team and lumber
wagon.
- In 1850, her brother Elijah E. GOODRICH
died with that great scourge the cholera;
- in 1851 her only remaining brother
William Henry died; and in 1853 her father followed., leaving
her with her mother "Aunt Polly GOODRICH," as
she was universally known, to struggle on in the wild West alone.
Her only sister, Mrs. Mary A. CONKLIN, remained on the
old homestead in Massachusetts, where she died in 1869.
- She was married to Charles H. GREENMAN
Aug. 27, 1853, and to them were
- born four children: Mrs. Carrie M.
RICE of Milton, Wis., Mrs. S. Anna VANCAMPIN of
Cannon Falls, Minn., Wm. Henry GREENMAN of Milton, Wis.,
and Mrs. Lucy A. LANE of Milwaukee, Wis. She experienced
religion in her youth and united with the First-day Baptist Church
of New Lebanon Springs, N.Y. She embraced the Bible Sabbath
soon after coming to Milton, Wis., and upon the organization
of the Seventh-day Baptist church at Milton Junction she became
one of the constituent members there, where she remained in faithful
Christian fellowship until her death April 24, 1900.
- She endured much deep sorrow and affliction,
and was nearly blind the last twenty
- years of her life. She was a devoted
Christian woman, wife, and mother; and she cared for her darling
children, through their infancy, childhood and youth, unto womanhood
and manhood, with a love and devotion that a mother only can
fully feel.
- She lived to see them all married and
settled for life, and her grandchildren growing up
- around her, respected, devoted, contented
and happy, and some of them even ready to branch out and begin
the battle of life. She passed away suddenly, painlessly, peacefully
and unexpectedly, with apoplexy, being fully prepared and ready
and willing and waiting to go.
- She was the most frail, but yet the
last surviving member of her family, living longer
- than the allotted life of man. She
won the respect, the confidence and the esteem of those who knew
her; and, by her going another family is reunited on the other
shore.
- Her pastor, the Rev. Geo. J. Crandall,
assisted by her former pastor, Rev. Geo. W.
- Burdick, officiated at her funeral,
at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Carrie M. RICE. Words
of comfort were spoken from the text, "But thanks be to
God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."
- Her cousins Ezra GOODRICH, Chas
H. GOODRICH, Solomon C. CARR and
- Joseph G. CARR were the pallbearers.
She was buried with her family and kindred by the "GOODRICH
Monument" in that most beautiful Milton cemetery just as
all nature was springing into newness of life. [Thursday edition,
p. 1]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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