Obituary: Adams County, Wisconsin: Boomer MASON

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From the Adams County Press, May 9, 1891, Page 4

DIED--in the Town of New Haven, Adams County, Wisconsin, on the 30th day of
April, 1891, of old age, Boomer MASON, aged 87 years and three months.

Father MASON was born in the town of Ira, Rutland County, Vermont, on the
22nd day of January, 1804. He lived in the county until September 1847,
when with his family he emigrated to Illinois, remaining there until
February, 1854, when he moved his family to Lowville, Columbia County,
Wisconsin, and lived there until October, 1865, when with his wife, he
moved to Lincoln, Adams County, where he remained until the spring of 1887,
then, with his son--with whom he had lived since the death of his wife in
1866--he went to New Haven, where he remained until his death.

He was confined to his bed only about ten days. He passed over the river as
one going to sleep, without any pain, but gradually sinking until his lungs
refused to draw in the vital fluid and he was no more. His son and wife,
and daughter and husband, Mr. and Mrs. D. N. BACON were with him in his
last moments.

Though not taking an active part in any political schemes, yet he was very
zealous of his party, and until the last year he was found at the polls on
every election day, and cast his ballot for the Republican party. He voted
for both the Harrison's for President of the U.S. At his death he belonged
to the U. B. church, with whom he united about eight years ago; previous he
had been a Methodist. His death brings to mind the following lines:

I am glad he has lived thus long,

And glad he has gone to his reward;

Nor deem it that kindly nature did him wrong;

Softly to disengage the vital chord

For when his hand grew palsied and his eye

Dim with the mist of age, it was his time to die.

[Note: U. B. church may have been the United Brethren.]