Peterson Mrs Nels01

Waupaca Republican

May 14, 1897

Granite Quarry

On Thursday morning, Mrs. Peterson, wife of Nels Peterson, who lives on the east Ogdensburg road, asked her fourteen-year-old girl to sharpen a butcher knife to cut some bread.  She then sent her five children out in the field where their father was at work with the team, and locking the front door, went into the kitchen and taking the knife cut her throat.  The father, thinking her ill, sent the eldest girl to the house to stay with her mother.  On entering the door in haste she fell over the dead body of her mother.  Her cries brought her father who informed the neighbors.  Mrs. Peterson was 39 years old, and for some time has been suffering from consumption. She leaves a husband and five children to mourn her loss.