Obituary: Adams County, Wisconsin: Thomas FLOOK ************************************************************************ Submitted by Joan Benner, May 2005 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ The Adams County Press [Friendship, Adams Co., WI], Saturday April 9, 1892, Page 5 Thomas FLOOK who died at his home in Big Spring on the 23rd of January, 1892, was one whose death deserves something more than the ordinary passing notice. He was born in England in 1811, and came to this country when a young man and settled in the State of New Jersey where for a time he worked at his trade of hatter. It was there he buried his first wife and afterwards married the estimable lady who survives him. He came west in an early day, and was among the very first settlers in the town of New Haven, in this county, and there he resided, honored and respected by his neighbors and townsmen through a long life, for his neighborly, kindly bearing, sturdy integrity of character, and sterling friendships. His neighbors are wont to speak of him as "a grand good man". He was 81 years of age at the time of his death, and leaves a widow, a son and two daughters.