Obituary: Adams County, Wisconsin: Charlotte BACON ************************************************************************ Submitted by Joan Benner, May 2005 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ From the Adams County Press, Oct 14, 1899, Page 5 DIED--BACON--Died at her home in Cumberland, Wisconsin, Oct 6, 1899, Charlotte, wife of Mr. George B. BACON, aged 60 years, 1 month and 8 days. Mrs. BACON, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Silas POOLER, was born at Mentor, Ohio, August 28th, 1839. Some time in the forties the family moved from Ohio to Wisconsin and first settled at Fulton in Rock County. From there they came to Adams County in 1850, and settled at Cascade, now called White Creek. It was there, in the fall of 1854, when she had just entered her fifteenth year, that the writer hereof came to know her as a pupil in the village school. There her quiet, studious, lady-like deportment gave promise of the noble and endearing qualities of mind and heart that so endeared her in after life to her family and friends, and to all who came within the circle of her associations and influence. On January 18, 1856, she was married to George B. BACON, at White Creek, and there they made their home for 34 years, or until 1890, when she and her husband moved to Algoma, Iowa, where they resided until the spring of 1893. The summer of 1893, she spent with relatives in Cumberland, and in visiting the World's Fair in Chicago, and then went to Des Moines, Iowa, where her husband and self lived until September, 1894, when they located and built a home in Cumberland, Wisconsin, near their children, Mr. and Mrs. F. F. MORGAN. Mr. and Mrs. BACON spent the winter of 1897-98 in Florida, hoping that a change in climate might benefit her health; but their hopes met with disappointment, for she steadily grew worse until death closed her earthly career at 9 o'clock in the morning of Oct 6, when she passed away at her home in Cumberland. Mrs. BACON was the mother of four children--one son and three daughters. The husband and two daughters--Mrs. P. S. ENGELHARDT of Milwaukee, and Mrs. F. F. MORGAN, wife of the publisher of the Advocate at Cumberland, Wisconsin, survive her. Her son, Warren, died at the age of 11 years at White Creek. Her eldest daughter married E. C. HIGBEE, now a prominent lawyer at La Crosse, and died in that city in 1886, aged 29 years. Appropriate funeral services were held in Cumberland, and the many beautiful and touching tributes to her memory showed how deeply she had endeared herself to all who knew her. The remains were brought to White Creek for burial, and were laid in their final resting place with the simple cermonies that best tell the story of deep and tender affection. Brief as was the notice, the church was full to capacity. Rev. Frank BACON, brother of the bereaved husband, at the request of Mrs. BACON before she died, preached the funeral sermon...