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- Lucy Angeline FULLER was born
in Bolivar, N.Y., April 20, 1838, and died in
- Milton Junction, Wis., January 20,
1921. She was the second in a family of seven children born
to Edwin and Eunice MAXSON FULLER.
- When she was twelve years old she came
with her family to Wisconsin and settled in
- Pleasant Springs township, Dane Co.,
near the old Utica church. It was while residing here in the
days of her girlhood that she attended Albion Academy and with
several of the young people was converted and joined by baptism
the Utica Seventh Day Baptist Church. She maintained her Christian
principles and ideal throughout life. She held membership in
the Utica Seventh Day Baptist Church, the church at New Auburn,
Minn., and with the Milton Junction Seventh Day Baptist Church
where she was a faithful and honored member at the time of her
death.
- On October 25, 1858 she was united
in marriage to Z. W. BURDICK by Rev.
- William C. WHITFORD, at Milton,
Wis. To this union were born two children: Minnie L., now
Mrs. Louis C. KEMP; and Fred L., of Milton Junction.
After living four years at Utica, she and her husband went with
a number of families who settled on the beautiful little lake
of New Auburn, Minn. A Seventh Day Baptist church being formed
here, she became a member of that church. Here they lived for
nine years. While residing there her husband gave the name
of Transit to the little town now bearing that name. The death
of Mr. BURDICK occurred in 1873 soon after the family
returned to Milton Junction.
- In November of 1882 she was united
in marriage to Mr. Henry WILLIAMS, of
- Milton Junction, Wis., by Rev. Nathan
WARDNER, and for thirty-nine years she was his faithful
wife and companion.
- Mrs. WILLIAMS was a woman known
for her Christian integrity and high ideals.
- She was a good wife and mother, a faithful
friend to those in need and one who felt deeply the sorrows of
those about her. Of a deeply sympathetic nature, and possessed
with a genius for caring for the sick, she was much sought after
in times of sickness and sorrow and many, many homes have been
blessed by her ministries of love and kindness. Naturally of
a cheerful disposition she scattered sunshine wherever she went
and many will cherish the memory of her genial spirit.
- Funeral services were conducted from
her late home by her pastor, rev. Edgar D.
- Van Horn, assisted by her former pastors,
Rev. George W. Burdick, and Rev. Henry N. Jordan, of Milton.
- Many beautiful floral offerings and
a large circle of relatives and friends at the farewell
- services attested to the high esteem
in which she was held.
- Mrs. Olga HULL and Mrs. R. A.
GILLASPY rendered three beautiful duets at the
- farewell service.
- She leaves to mourn her loss her aged
husband, "Uncle Henry," Mrs. Louis C.
- KEMP,
and Mr. Fred BURDICK of Milton Junction, besides a large
number of other relatives and friends. Interment was in the
Milton Junction cemetery. E. D. V. H. [Vol. 90, No.
12, p. 382]
- Mary A[nn] LANGWORTHY was born
in Lincklaen, N.Y., June 5, 1828, and died
- in Milton Junction, Wis., February
8, 1921, at the age of 92 years, 8 months and 3 days. She was
the eldest daughter Elnathan and Maria SPENCER CLARKE
and one of a family of eleven children, four sons and seven daughters.
- Mrs. LANGWORTHY came of a long
line of Puritan ancestry; her ancestors coming
- to Rhode Island from England in 1637.
The name "CLARKE" itself suggests the occupation
of the family in England; that of "clerks" to the government
which fact is proven by records extending back to 1541. Her
great-great-grandfather, Rev. Joshua CLARKE, served in
the colonial wars and in the Revolution; was a member of the
R.I. Legislature, a trustee of Brown University, and the first
"town meeting" at Hopkinton was held at his house.
It is also interesting to know in these times of hurry and
discarding of the old, that Mrs. LANGWORTHY's brother,
Joshua, preached in 1858 in the same church at Hopkinton, that
her great-great-grandfather was ordained in and preached in just
a hundred years before.
- Mary A. CLARKE received her
early education mostly from DeRuyter Institute,
- DeRuyter, N.Y., after which she taught
for a short time. In the fall of 1857, while living at Brookfield,
N.Y., she was married to Thomas LANGWORTHY of the town
of Brookfield, by her eldest brother, Rev. Joshua CLARKE.
They lived on a farm near this place about eight years when
they moved to a farm near Albion, Wis., at which place they resided
until moving to Milton Junction in 1900.
- Mr. LANGWORTHY died at this
home June 13, 1912.
- To this union were born five children,
Alice, Frank, Angie, Cora and Clara, two of
- whom, Alice and Frank, passed on several
years ago.
- Fourteen grandchildren and twenty-two
great-grandchildren survive her.
- During Mrs. LANGWORTHY's declining
years and failing health, she has been
- devotedly cared for by her daughter
Angie. The last few years, when forbidden the activities of
life, she spent a great deal of her time composing religious
poems which showed her faith and trust in her heavenly Father.
- Funeral services were conducted from
her late home by her pastor, Rev. Edgar D.
- Van Horn, assisted by Rev. Henry N.
Jordan, a former pastor.
- Three old and favorite hymns were beautifully
rendered by Mrs. Edward HULL and
- Mrs. R. A. GILLASPY.
- A large gathering of relatives and
friends paid tribute to the high esteem in which "Aunt
- Mary" was held. The body was
laid to rest in the Milton Junction cemetery. E. D. V.
H. [Vol. 90, No. 12, p. 383]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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