Obituary: Adams County, Wisconsin: Edwin J. SYLVESTER ************************************************************************ Submitted by Joan Benner, May 2005 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ From the Adams County Press, Saturday June 22, 1895, Page 5 Death of a Pioneer of Wisconsin Edwin J. SYLVESTER died at Grand Marsh June 10, 1895. He was born on the Island of Mackinaw May 28th, 1821, and moved with his parents to Green Bay in 1835. They were among the first settlers of Wisconsin. He was married in 1842 to Martha DAVENPORT, of Mackinaw. In 1847 they moved to Portage and built the Washington House of that place, remaining there several years. He then moved onto a farm near Morrisville, where he soon met with an accident which crippled him for life. For the last six years he has lived with his sister, formerly Mrs. Silas FLETCHER, at the Marsh House, the old homestead of their parents. He leaves four sons and one daughter--Mrs. M. J. WINTER, of Black River Falls; one son, Quincy SYLVESTER, resides at Morrisville, and three, with their families, at Marcus, Iowa. His sufferings were severe, but by them he acquired patient, humble, obedient trust in God, the Father, "even unto death," and with a loving spirit passed on into the beyond, with a good hope, where no more "Sorrow's rudest tempests blow, each chord of love to sever; where our King says, come, for here's your home, forever and forever."