Obituary: Adams County, Wisconsin: Edward A. CUMMINGS

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From the Adams County Press, Nov 18, 1899, Page 6

On Monday last Edward A. CUMMINGS, a well-to-do farmer and prominent
citizen of the town of New Haven, residing about a mile west of
Briggsville, died very suddenly in a field where he had been at work during
the afternoon. About three o'clock that afternoon, Mr. George AGER,
chairman of supervisors (county board) of New HAVEN, on his way to
Friendship, passed Mr. CUMMINGS place and saw him seated on a sulky plow
out in the field, busily engaged in plowing, and apparently in usual good
health. Mr. CUMMINGS died about an hour later, supposedly of heart failure.

Mr. CUMMINGS was highly esteemed in the community where he resided as an
honorable, upright, conscientious man and good citizen, and had always been
prominent in the social and business affairs of the town. In the family
circle he was a kind and indulgent husband and father, watchful for the
good of those Providence had committed to his care. He is mourned by a very
large circle of friends.

The deceased leaves surviving him a widow, four sons and four daughters,
grieving for the loss of a devoted husband and father. The sons are
Sylvester, residing in New Haven; Charles, now in the Klondyke region;
Elmer and Edward, Jr., residing in South Dakota. The daughters are Miss
Lydia, for twenty-three years past has been engaged in teaching in the
schools of Milwaukee; Mrs. Martha WHITING of South Dakota; Mrs. Albert
STEVENS, residing near Baraboo in Sauk County; and Miss Stella, now a
student in the Normal School at Whitewater. His oldest son was one of the
unfortunates who were caught and perished in the great snowslide in the
Klondyke last winter.

Also from page 6 of the Nov 18, 1899 Adams County Press: --Supervisor
Thomas K. McCLYMAN was called away Wednesday morning to attend the funeral
of his cousin, Edward A. CUMMINGS, near Briggsville, an account of whose
sudden death last Monday, will be found elsewhere in the Press.