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- The death of Mrs. Gardner SAUNDERS
which occured in Milton last Saturday
- morning, October 30th, removes another
of the early settlers of our town. Mrs. SAUNDERS was the
daughter of Elisha CROSBY and Sally CLARKE CROSBY,
of Henderson, Jefferson County, N.Y., and was born in that township
June 2, 1824, and was married to Mr. SAUNDERS of Adams
Center in the same county, March 5, 1844, and very soon thereafter
came to Wisconsin, settling in the town of Cold Springs in Jefferson
County. In 1847 they moved to Rock County and settled on a farm
about one mile north of Milton which for the last 62 years has
been familarly know as the Gardner SAUNDERS farm.
- Five children, two daughters and three
sons were born to them. The eldest, the wife
- of Mr. Clarkson HERITAGE, died
in January 1904, and the fourth child, Charles Fremont SAUNDERS
died the day before Christmas 1885. The surviving members of
the family are Alban Gardner SAUNDERS of Redlands California,
Mrs. Alvira SAUNDERS DAVIS CLARKE now of
Milton, and Russel Henry SAUNDERS well known to Milton
people.
- Mr. SAUNDERS died about fourteen
years ago, since which, until some two years
- ago, Mrs. SAUNDERS has kept
her own house. For the last two years she has lived with her
daughter, Mrs. CLARKE. In their religious faith and practice
they were Seventh-day Baptists which Mrs. SAUNDERS held
to the last.
- Funeral services were held at the house
of her daughter where she died, on Monday
- afternoon, conducted by her pastor,
Dr. Platts. Appropriate and beautiful music was furnished by
the College Quartet, and the weary body was laid to rest beside
the remains of her husband in the beautiful Milton Cemetery.
[Thursday edition]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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