Obituary: Adams County, Wisconsin: Mary MANN ************************************************************************ Submitted by Joan Benner, May 2005 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ From the Adams County Press, Saturday January 5, 1895, Page 5 DIED--MANN--In Friendship, December 29, 1894, Mary, wife of Joseph MANN, in the fifty-third year of her age. The deceased was born in the kingdom of Bohemia in August, 1842. Her maiden name was Mary SEKERA. She was married to her husband, Joesph MANN, who survives her, on the 7th day of June, 1867, and the union proved to be a happy one. They came to America in 1873, landing in this country May 16th, and the same year came to Adams county and settled on a farm near Pilot Knob. In March, 1892, Mr. MANN moved his family to Friendship, where they have since resided. Mrs. MANN was an exemplary woman in all the relations of life, as neighbor, wife and mother. She was long a devout member of the Roman Catholic church. Mrs. MANN left surviving her two children, daughters, Mrs. Mary POLIVKA, wife of John POLIVKA, who resides in Chicago, and a younger daughter now just verging on womanhood. The bereaved friends have the sympathy of the whole community in their sad bereavement.