REPUBLICAN POST

January 21, 1909

 

DIED.

 

            The death of Mrs. Elizabeth Cornwell occurred at he home of her daughter, Mrs. W. D. Parish in Lind last Friday.  The deceased was born in the state of New York, Feb. 25, 1825, and came to Wisconsin in 1857.  She was married to Selah Cornwell in the year of 1859 and came to Waupaca County in 1860. She had made her residence in Scandinavia, Iola and Amherst before coming to Waupaca.  Here she lived from the early ‘70s until about three years ago when with her husband she went to live with her daughter in Lind.  Her companion passed away on the 19^th of last December and she was heard to say on the date of his burial that, it would not be long before she would follow.  Her health and strength had not been the best for some months before her death.

            Early in life she had been a Quaker.  The funeral services of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Parish in Lind on Monday, Jan. 18, Rev. Webster Millar officiating, where a goodly number of friends were gathered to pay their last respects to the departed.  Interment was made in the Lakeview cemetery of this city.