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- The death of Clark [Green] CRANDALL
which occurred last Friday, Dec. 18,
- removes from among us one who has been
a resident of Wisconsin and for the greater part of the time,
of Milton, for the last seventy years. He was born in Allegany
Co., N.Y., Feb. 23, 1825, and came with his father's family to
Wisconsin in 1838. He was the second son of Henry B. CRANDALL
in whose family there were five sons and five daughters. Five
of these, two sons and three daughters are still living.
- In youth and early manhood Mr. CRANDALL
was a man of strong, vigorous
- constitution, active and alert in body
and mind. He was ambitious for College training with a view to
entering one of the learned professions; but some defect of eyesight
forbade the study necessary to such an attainment and he turned
his attention to farming. In 1847 he was married to Susan Lacy
STILLMAN, daughter of John STILLMAN of Rock River
who was also one of the early settlers in this country.
- Shortly after his marriage he joined
a company of gold seekers and with them made
- the long journey to the newly discovered
mining regions of California. The rough experiences of this journey
and of the mining camp were congenial to his vigorous hardy nature.
In the camp, also was proven the value of his literary tastes
and of the store of good reading which he had acquired. His favorite
author was Sir Walter Scott; and his reading of Marmion and the
Lady of the Lake, and the thrilling adventures of the heroic
characters of Ivanhoe and other of the historic tales relieved
the tedium of many a long evening and brightened the life of
men so far separated from home and friends.
- After a year or two spent in this way
he returned to Wisconsin and with his young wife
- again took up the work of the farm
with a good measure of success both in the town of Milton and
on Albion Prairie. During these years there were born to them
six children, four of whom died in infancy or early childhood
and in such succession that their home was three times left childless.
- These sorrows with the increasing burden
of years and the death of his wife, followed
- by property losses broke his constitution
and changed the once social nature to that of a recluse. In this
broken down condition his son, Charles H. CRANDALL, now
of Boulder, Colorado, and his daughter Harriet, at teacher in
Chicago have done all in their power to brighten his declining
years.
- The funeral service was held on Sunday
afternoon in the Seventh-day Baptist church
- of Milton Junction conducted by his
life-long friend, Dr. Platts, assisted by his pastor, the Rev.
T. J. Van Horn of Albion, and the Rev. A. J. C. Bond of Milton
Junction.
- Beautiful music was furnished by the
Milton College Male Quartet. [Thursday edition,
- p. 2]
- Henry ESTEE was born in Petersburg,
N.Y., April 7, 1830 and died in Janesville,
- Wisconsin, Dec. 15, 1908, in the seventy-ninth
year of his age.
- His father, Azor ESTEE, was
a minister of the gospel and died many years ago, in
- missionary service, in Virginia - now
West Virginia.
- On May 12, 1849, when the subject of
this notice was 19 years of age, he was
- married to Miss Lucretia S. GREEN,
of Berlin, N.Y. Five years later they came to Wisconsin and located
at Albion. After two or three years they removed to West Hallock,
Illinois. In 1875 they returned to Wisconsin and settled upon
a farm north of Milton Junction where Mrs. ESTEE died
in February, 1881. Four or five years later Mr. ESTEE
married to Mrs. Delia SWEET CRANDALL since which
he has been a resident of Milton village.
- While living in West Hallock he was
ordained to the office of Deacon in the Seventh-
- day Baptist church of that place. On
removal to Milton his church membership and official relation
were transferred to Milton, where, with characteristic modesty
and great fidelity he has continued to serve until released by
the Divine call to a higher and holier fellowship.
- Early last summer Mr. and Mrs. ESTEE
left home for an extended tour to the Pacific
- Coast, visiting children and other
relatives, planning to be gone at least a year. Late in September
Mr. ESTEE's health began to fail. Finding the climate
of lower California of no benefit, they returned the last of
November to the home of his daughter, Mrs. Joseph SPENCER,
in Janesville, where he died as above noted.
- The funeral service was held in the
church at Milton, December 17, conducted by his
- pastor, Dr. Platts, assisted by President
Daland of the College; and the burial was in the cemetery at
Milton Junction.
- He is survived by his widow, six children
and four great grandchildren. [Thursday
- edition, p. 2]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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