Obituary: Adams County, Wisconsin: Helen TARBOX ************************************************************************ Submitted by Joan Benner, May 2005 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ From the Adams County Press, Saturday Nov 10, 1906, Page 1 On Tuesday morning of last week, Mrs. Helen TARBOX, one of the oldest residents of the village, passed away after an illness extending over several months. Helen W. McMACKIN was born in Portpatrick, Scotland, March 29, 1819, and the years of her childhood and young womanhood were spent in her native land until coming to America at the age of 30 years. On the 16th of April, 1857, she was united in marriage to Bela TARBOX and except two years since that time her home has been in Friendship where on September 28, 1883, her husband was called away at the advanced age of 81 years. Of their marriage two children were born, one son, Bela J., who died March 7, 1863 at the age of 5 years; and one daughter, Mrs. Helen STONE of Strong's Prairie, who was with her mother when death came. For two years succeeding their marriage Mr. and Mrs. TARBOX resided at the then village of Preston, two miles east of town, when they came to Friendship, where her home had ever since been in the same house in which she died. She was a woman quiet in manner and of retiring disposition, and though from her sturdy Scotch ancestry she derived strong convictions of right and truth, she spoke no evil of anyone--believing all things good. For nearly half a century she looked upon the ever changing picture of our village life, and in former years before the infirmities of age came upon her, few were the homes where pain and sorrow entered but knew her gentle ministry and many among the friends and neighbors, who came for the last time to look upon her gentle features recalled days of their childhood when she soothed their childish ill or ministered to a parent long since called beyond. Mrs. TARBOX leaves surviving her besides her daughter already mentioned, two sisters living in Scotland, eight grandchildren and one great- grandchild. Funeral services were held at the home last Thursday morning, conducted by Reverend J. M. Lavendar, the interment being in Mount Repose cemetery, beside her husband who so long preceded her to the grave.