Obituary: Adams County, Wisconsin: S. P. BERRY ************************************************************************ Submitted by Joan Benner, May 2005 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ From the Adams County Press, Saturday May 28, 1904, Page 5 Died at Quincy, Wisconsin, on the evening of May 13, 1904, S. P. BERRY, aged 83 years and 10 days. The subject of this sketch was born at Groton, New York, May 3, 1821. He was married September 11, 1845 to Celia BARROWS of Groton. To this union were born four sons, Irwin S. BERRY of Coldwater Canyon farm being the only surviving one. In 1847 he came to Wisconsin, locating on a farm at Quincy, Adams county, where he lived until after the death of his wife, May 24, 1889. On November 17th, 1891, he was united in marriage to Selina EVANS of Quincy who survives him. At the age of fifteen years he united with the Congregational church at Groton and from that time his life has been a living epistle known and read of all men, while the sustaining power of an unwavering faith through all the trials and vicissitudes incidental to a pioneer life and through the increasing infirmities of extreme age, has been his comfort and stay. He was laid at rest May 15th, in the little cemetery at Quincy besides his first wife and three sons, and among the friends with and for whom he had labored for so many years, Rev. A. H. Smith of Friendship speaking words of comfort from the text "Thinkest Thou to be Right"--Job 35:2 "Life's duty done, as sinks the clay; Light from its load the spirit flies; While heaven and earth combine to say, How blest the Christian when he dies."