Adams County Wisconsin Genealogy

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SAUNDERS Egbert
Adams County Press, June 26, 1897, Page 4 Column 3, Glen local news items
-Died, of quick consumption, June 18, 1897, Egbert SAUNDERS, and was buried from this church, June 20, Rev. RAWSON officiating. He leaves a wife and one child besides other near relatives to mourn his loss. It is seldom that the death of a person has caused such a general feeling of sorrow and regret, and never in the remembrances of the writer was the church crowded to such and extent. He was a most patient sufferer and testified to his readiness to go at the call of his Lord.

SCHIEBER, Eve
Source: From the Adams County Press, March 18, 1893
DIED: SCHIEBER - In the town of New Chester, on the morning of March 17; after a long illness and much suffering, Eve, the beloved wife of Lorenz Schieber, in the 73rd year of her life. The departed one is the mother of four living children who all reside in this county; Frank, the eldest, at New Chester; Ferdinand, in Adams; Pauline, wife of Mr. W. McClyman and William, in New Chester, at the homestead. Mrs. Schieber was born on the lower Rhine, in Freneli, Germany, came from there to Buffalo, New York, where she was married to Mr. Schieber in 1844; moved from Watertown in 1856, coming to Adams County, since which time they have resided in New Chester, being much esteemed by their neighbors. The funeral took place from the house on the Sunday following.

Source: From the Adams County Press, March 25, 1893, New Chester news: Mrs. Schieber, of Pleasant Prairie, died Friday. She was one of the oldest settlers in this town, and leaves many friends and relatives to mourn her loss.

SCOFIELD, Mary
Source: Source: From the Adams County Press April 18, 1874, Page 3

Died – SCOFIELD – On the morning of the 11th April, Mary Scofield, aged 53 years, 7 months and 8 days.

SCOFIELD, Mary
Source: Source: From the Adams County Press April 18, 1874, Page 3

Death of Mrs. SCOFIELD – Elsewhere will be found a notice of the death of Mrs. Mary Scofield, the estimable wife of David Scofield, Esq., Clerk of the Circuit Court. Mrs. Scofield, about thirteen years ago, was attacked with paralysis, and since that time has been a confirmed and often severely suffering invalid. Her afflictions, however, were borne with a cheerful patience that was a surprise to all who knew her. Her pathway during the years of sufferings has been smoothed by the watchful and kind care of her family and friends.

Her funeral was attended by a very large number of citizens of the place and the surrounding country. Rev. E. Yocum, Pastor of the M. E. Church, of which the deceased was a member, preached an excellent discourse from the text, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord; yea, saith the spirit, for they rest from their labors and their works do follow them.

SCOTT O B
Source: From the Adams County Press, January 7, 1899, Page 1 Column 2
O B Scott, back in the 60's a resident of the town of Easton, and a member of Co. E, 38th Wis. Vol. Infantry, died recently at his home in Richland Center, Wis. Mr. Scott was in every way an excellent citizen and in the service of his country a tried and faithful soldier.

SHIPLA William
Surnames: SHIPLA, VLK
Abstracted from the Daily Tribune [Wisconsin Rapids], Monday January 23, 2006, Page 2A William Shipla, 95, of Friendship, died Saturday January 21, 2006 at Friendship.

William was born October 10, 1910 in Friendship to James and Mary (Vlk) Shipla. He spent his entire life on the home farm except for his service in WWII in the European Theater. Survivors include a sister, nieces, a nephew, grandnieces and grandnephews. Funeral services were held at Roseberry's Funeral Home and burial was in Fordham cemetery.

SLITER Anna
Surnames: INGERSOLL, SLITER
Source: From the Adams County Press, May 4, 1899
On Tuesday last one of the most distressing occurred on the farm of Mr. C. B. INGERSOLL, in the town of Strongs Prairie, that it has ever been our province to record. The circumstances, as we learn them, are that Mr. Wm. SLITER was plowing in a field some thirty or forty rods from the house and that one of his little girls, a child about three-and-a-half years old, was in the field with him. Several old stumps and piles of rubbish in the field had been set on fire, and were burning at the time. After watching her father at his work until she became tired, the little girl asked him to carry her across the plowed ground so she could go to the house and see "mama." Mr. SLITER picked her up and carried her across the plowed ground, and past , as he supposed, all danger of her clothing taking fire from the burning heaps, put her down and returned to his work.

A few moments afterward his attention was attracted by the child's screams, and looking around he saw her running toward the house with her clothing all aflame. Those in the house discovered the child about the same time and ran to meet her; but before she could be reached she fell upon the ground, overcome by the agony caused by the flames. Mrs. SLITER was the first to reach the little sufferer and tear off the burning clothing.

The child was tenderly borne into the house and a messenger dispatched for Doctor WEBSTER, but before the Doctor could reach her, death came to her relief. Almost the entire surface of the body and limbs, from the neck to the knees was burned to a crisp.

Mr. SLITER and family until recently lived in Friendship, or on a farm near by, and little Anna, whose untimely fate has deeply shocked our entire community, was known as a bright and promising child. It is always sad to note the fall of these little ones-saddest of all when they are thus taken.

How the child's clothing came to take fire is a mystery. It may be that as the careful father was carrying her past the fires, and as he supposed out of all danger, the wind blew a spark that caught on her clothing unnoticed and afterwards was fanned into a flame. But no one will ever be able to tell. The funeral was on Wednesday, and was attended by a large number of our citizens, drawn together by sympathy for the stricken and bereaved parents.

SLITER Imogene
Source: From the Adams County Press, February 16, 1878
SLITER-In Friendship, February 3, 1878, of dropsy on the brain, Imogene, aged seven months, the little daughter of Wm. and Julia E. SLITER.

SLOCUM, Egbert
Surnames: SLOCUM, WILCOX
Source: Adams County Press, Nov. 6, 1897
Mr. Egbert SLOCUM died at his home in Plainville, early Saturday morning, in his 79th year. Mr. SLOCUM has been in poor health for a number of years, suffering greatly the past few months. All that could be done during his suffering was done by his faithful and loving wife, ever ready to do his slightest wish, with a loving hand and a cheerful smile. The family have the sympathy of the whole community in their sad bereavement. He leaves a wife and two children, a daughter, Mrs. C. WILCOX of Camp Douglas, and a son, Mr. Judson SLOCUM of this place.

SMITH, Wm. G.
Source: Source: From the Adams County Press October 31, 1874, Page 2

Died – SMITH – At his residence on Pleasant Ridge, in Strongs Prairie, October 19th, 1874, of typhoid fever, Wm. G. SMITH, in the 68th year of his age.

SOHN Carl
Source: Adams County Press, Saturday May 1, 1897
Last Monday, little Carl SOHN, the two-year-old son of Fred SOHN, of Coloma, while playing round a tub partly filled with water, fell in and was drowned.

SORENSON
Source: Adams County Press, Saturday January 25, 1913
Little James Hans Sorenson was born January 9th, 1913, and lived a few hours less than a week before giving up this life again. Like a little beam of sunshine he came, and quick as a sunbeam he faded. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Hans Sorenson of Jackson. The baby was apparently in good health, when without a moments warning he died instantaneously of heart disease. Funeral services were held by Rev. James Deans and the little babe was laid to rest in the Vroman cemetery in Jackson.

What tho in lonely grief we sigh,
For a child beloved, no longer nigh,
Submissive would we still reply;
"Thy will be done."
If Thou should call us to resign
What most we prize, tho we repine,
We only yield Thee what is Thine.
"Thy will be done."

Card of Thanks: We wish to extend our heartfelt thanks to our neighbors and friends for their sympathy and help at the death and burial of our infant son. --Mr. and Mrs. Hans Sorenson

SPAULDING, Lottie
Source: From the Adams County Press, Saturday January 16, 1897
Miss Lottie Spaulding, while skating on the river, at Mauston, last Saturday, skated into an air-hole and was drowned.

SPOOR Mrs P F
Surnames: HENDRICKS, SPOOR
Source: From the Adams County Press, January 7, 1899, Page 1 Column 2
Mrs. P F Spoor, one of the pioneer settlers of Friendship, died at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Stella Hendricks, in St. Joe, Missouri, Dec. 28, 1898, aged 91 years.

STOWELL, Butler
Surnames: Henry, Stowell
Source: From the Adams County Press, Saturday April 10, 1897, Page 4 Column 2
Butler STOWELL, one of the early settlers and best known men in Adams county died at the residence of A. F. STOWELL, at White Creek, last Sunday. The funeral was held at White Creek, last Wednesday morning at ten o'clock, and was conducted by Rev. A. C. MARDEN. Mr. STOWELL was the father of A. F. STOWELL of White Creek, and Mrs. J. A. HENRY of Easton. A suitable obituary will appear later. (Transcriber's Note: Last Sunday would have been the 4th of April)

Obituary, from the May 1, 1897 issue of the Adams County Press
Butler STOWELL, a resident of Adams county for nearly or quite 30 years, died at his home in the village of White Creek, in this county, April 4th, 1897. Mr. STOWELL was born in Jericho, in the state of New York, March 10, 1810, and it is in that vicinity that his boyhood days were passed. In his early manhood he engaged in lumbering in Erie county, Pennsylvania; but the tales of a land in the then "Far West" where the "husbandman had but to tickle the earth with a plow and it would laugh with a harvest," excited his interest and led him to seek his fortunes there. In 1845 he came with his family to Wisconsin, and settled in the town of Oregon, in Dane county, where he built and operated a sawmill for a time. This mill afterwards became known as the Old Fliper Mill. From 1850 to 1860 he held the offices of under-sheriff and deputy-sheriff of Dane county, in the meantime changing, in 1855, his place of residence to the city of Madison, where he resided until 1866, when he removed to Adams county. About thirty years ago he united with the Methodist Episcopal church. About eight years ago he united with the Congregational Church at White Creek, of which he was an honored member and the Senior Deacon. Of him his pastor said: "His wise counsel and fatherly advice will be very much missed by the church." Mr. STOWELL was sick for about four months, and for the three last of them was obliged, such was his infirmity, to sit in his chair constantly both day and night, and it was while in that position that the angels came to bear him to that land where there is neither suffering nor pain nor sorrow. The funeral took place at the Congregational Church in White Creek, Wednesday, April 7th, and was largely attended by relatives and friends. The services were conducted by the pastor, Rev. A. C. CARDEN, assisted by Rev. E. YOCUM of Point Bluff. The subject of the sermon was found in a text selected by Mr. STOWELL: "Blessed are they which do hunger after righteousness, for they shall be filled." Mat. v:6. Mr. STOWELL leaves a widow, two sons and several married daughters.

STOWELL, Roswell
Surname: STOWELL
Source: From the Adams County Press, February 16, 1878
Roswell W. STOWELL, whole death was noticed in the last Press, was born in Otsego county, New York, May 14th, 1811. A few years later he went to Oswego county, New York, to reside, where he was married and engaged in active business pursuits until the winter of 1856-1857, when he and his family came to Friendship. Previous to this he had professed a hope in Christ, and united with the M. E. Church. After residing a couple of years in this then new village of Friendship, he removed to his farm about three miles southeast of the village, where he resided until his death.

Being one of the oldest residents of this place, Mr. STOWELL shared in and had to do with all those questions and interests that have left their impress upon our little community. He loved his won church and in all honorable ways sought its prosperity. But he was not only a lover of his own, but of all that loved Christ. He had his imperfections-no one knew this better than himself; and so to the very last his hope of eternal blessedness was in the Lamb of God who taketh away the sins of the world. Brother STOWELL we expect to find among the saved. We doubt not he has gone to see the King in his beauty-there to await the coming of the loved ones yet left in the old home.--

SULLIVAN, Edward
Surname: SULLIVAN
From the Adams Times, Friday November 4, 1927, Page 1
Edward Sullivan Dies In Madison Hospital On Wednesday, Nov. 2nd: Has Represented Village of Friendship on County Board... News is received Thursday as the Times goes to press of the death of Edward Sullivan, a member of the county board of supervisors for the village of Friendship. His death took place at the state general hospital in Madison to which he went for treatment. His ailment was due to a chronic trouble that has exisited for some years but which recently assumed a more acute form.

The Times has no data available for an adequate life sketch of the decease which must necessarily be deferred until a later issue. He was a man who stood high in the esteem of his townspeople, as is evidenced by the fact that they have chosen him year after year as their representative on the county board, although politically he was aligned with a party greatly in the minority in the community. The Times voices the feeling of the community in expressing regret for his departure.