Obituary: Adams County, Wisconsin: Edwin O. CLAPP ************************************************************************ Submitted by Joan Benner, May 2005 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ From the Friendship Reporter, Thursday, March 9, 1922, Page 1 Edwin O. CLAPP was born in South Hadley Falls, Massachusetts, December 20, 1840, and died at the home of his nephew in Easton February 25, 1922, aged 81 years, 2 months and 5 days. He came with his parents to Wisconsin in 1856 and settled on a farm in the town of Adams, on which he lived for 50 years. After selling the home farm he bought a residence in Kilbourn, and there lived for five years. He then sold his home and went to visit his sons in the west. Since the fall of 1920, he made his home with his nephew, George BACON, at Easton. Mr. CLAPP was united in marriage on February 7, 1866, to Sarah S. PHILLIPS, daughter of Daniel and Armeda PHILLIPS of New York State. To this union 5 children were born, two daughters preceding their father in death. He leaves to mourn his loss his wife, three sons, Frank of Prince Rupert, B. C., Lester of Cranbrook, B. C., William of Ephrata, Washington, one sister, Miss Mary WOOLSEY of Easton, a nephew and niece, Mr. and Mrs. George BACON, seven grandchildren and many other relatives and friends. Mr. CLAPP enlisted in August, 1862, in Company K, Twenty-fifth Wisconsin Infantry, was under General Sherman and accompanied him on his famous march to the sea. He then went to Washington and participated in the Grand Review. He saw much hard service and was in the hospital at Memphis for about a month. After three years of service he was discharged at Memphis, Tennessee, June 24, 1865. Not once did he shirk his duty, and he was always with his regiment. He was a loving and kind husband and father, and a generous neighbor, always ready to lend a helping hand. By his upright, honest moral character and unusually pleasant disposition, he won the respect and friendship of all with whom he came into contact. Funeral services were held at the George BACON home in Easton Wednesday forenoon, Rev. C. V. Robinson officiating. Interment was in the Mount Repose cemetery at Friendship.