Pryse John01

Waupaca County Post

June 25, 1925

John J. Pryse was born in Montgomeryshire, Wales, March 10^th, 1849, and passed away at his home near Waupaca on June 9, 1925, at the age of 76 years, two months and twenty-nine days. Cause of the decease of Mr. Pryse being pneumonia.

Mr. Pryse came to this country in June, 1846, and was married to Miss Jane Lewis on the 4^th day of April, 1883.

Six children were born to this union, John, who died some years ago; David, Edward, William, Elizabeth, (Mrs. Martin Johnson) and Sadie (Mrs. Floyd Peterson).

The wife and children were all present at the bedside when he passed away.

Besides the immediate family he leaves to mourn his demise, three grandchildren, one sister, Mrs. Charles Dalton of Oshkosh, and four brothers, Edward of Neenah, William of Wales, G.B. Thomas and Richard of Waupaca. Besides many nieces and nephews.

Mr. Pryse had a loving disposition and was a kind husband and father, and a good neighbor, never tiring of doing all within his poer for everybody, and he will be greatly missed, not only by relatives, but also by a host of friends who had learned to love him for his many good qualities.

Funeral services were held at his late home of Friday afternoon, June 12^th, at two o’clock, conducted by Rev. E.B. Earle, chaplain of Wisconsin Veterans’ Home, and interment was made in Riverside cemetery at Waupaca.

“Let me be the author of a little kindly deed

Or sacrifice and service for a fellow in need.

Let me live a poem of the self-denying will

To lend a hand of helping to a comrade up the hill.

Let me be an artist of the sunlight on the flowers,

To fill some brother’s darkness with the dream of golden hours.

Let me be a master of the music that the birds

Have set to artless measures with the most unstudied words.”

- Contributed.