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Waupaca County Post

April 24, 1924

GEORGE I. CONSTANCE OF CUMBERLAND DEAD;

FORMER WAUPACA BOY

George I. Constance, of Cumberland, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. C.E. Constance, pioneer settlers of Waupaca, died Saturday morning, April 19^th, at a hospital in Mankato, Minn., where he had been taken two weeks ago for treatment.

Deceased was born in Waupaca on March 24, 157, and attended public schools in this city and was a prominent member of the Methodist church and Sunday school from early boyhood until at his majority he went to New Richmond and a little later to Cumberland where he engaged in mercantile and produce business in what was then a new lumber town of Barron county. Later as agriculture began to attract the attention of the settlers farm implements were added to the growing business.

March 20, 1883, he was united in marriage to Miss Mattie Curtis and to this union, three children were born. Two daughters, Jennie and Margaret Constance, with their mother, are left to mourn the loss of a kind husband and father. The only son, Lowell, died in February, 1904, after which Mr. Constance disposed of his business and later engaged in the sale of nursery stock extending beyond the confines of Barron county …..