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- Mrs. Emma T. PLATTS was the
daughter of Jesse and Dency BLIVEN TEFFT.
- She was born in the town of Almond,
N.Y., May 23, 1841, and died May 7, 1925, at the home of her
son, Dr. L. Arthur PLATTS, in Park Ridge, near Chicago,
Ill., being almost eighty-four years of age.
- As a young woman she attended Alfred
Academy at Alfred Center, N.Y., and fitted
- herself as a teacher in the district
schools of those days. When about twenty years old she came to
Wisconsin and taught near Utica, Dane County, where an uncle
of hers was living. She then attended school at Milton, and on
July 5, 1864, at the close of the commencement exercises of Milton
Academy, of which they were both graduates that day, she was
married to Lewis Alexander PLATTS, by Rev. Wm. C. WHITFORD.
- There were three sons born to them:
William Whitford PLATTS, who died in Los
- Angeles, Calif., in October, 1911;
Rev. Jesse Allison PLATTS, who died in Pittsburgh, Pa.,
in May of the following year, 1912; and Dr. Lewis Arthur PLATTS
of Park Ridge and Chicago, Ill. Mrs. PLATTS has lived
with her husband at Alfred, N.Y., Nile, N.Y., New Market, N.J.,
Westerly, R.I., Los Angeles, Calif., and Milton Junction and
Milton, Wis., and has been a member of the Seventh Day Baptist
churches in these several localities while living in them. She
made a public profession of religion while she was a student
at Milton, during a series of evangelistic meetings conducted
by Rev. O. P. Hull. She was the youngest of eight children, four
sons and four daughters, and was the last of all to go.
- Farewell services were held on Sabbath
day, May 9, 1925, in the Milton Seventh Day
- Baptist church, conducted by her pastor
Rev. James L. Skaggs, assisted by Rev. Erlo E. Sutton and Rev.
Edwin Shaw, and the burial was made in the family lot in the
Milton cemetery. J. L. S. [Vol. 98, No. 24, p. 766]
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- [The middle initial of "T."
above is for her maiden name of TEFFT; Emma's middle initial
was A.]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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