Obituary: Adams County, Wisconsin: Catherine HIGBEE ************************************************************************ Submitted by Joan Benner, May 2005 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ From the Adams County Press [Friendship, Adams Co., WI], Saturday 25 July 1903, P5C4 DIED--Mrs. Catherine HIGBEE Mrs. Catherine HIGBEE died at the home of her granddaughter, Mrs. August FISCHER, at Nekoosa, Wis., July 8th, 1903, after a long illness. Mrs. Catherine HIGBEE was born at Ransville, Auburn Co., New York November 26, 1824. She was married in 1853 to Wm. HIGBEE; came to Necedah, Wisconsin, in 1861. In the year 1866, they came to Barnum, Wisconsin, where she had since resided except the last year of her life which was spent in Nekoosa. She had been a great sufferer from rheumatism for the past 12 years, the last six years of her life having been a helpless invalid. At an early age she became a follower of Christ and united with the M. E. church. The funeral was held at the Horton schoolhouse, services conducted by Rev. Smith, and her remains were laid to rest in the New Rome cemetery. She leaves one son and a granddaughter to mourn her loss.