Obituary: Adams County, Wisconsin: Maria WOOCK ************************************************************************ Submitted by Joan Benner, May 2005 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ From the Adams County Press, May 23, 1891, Page 5 The sudden death of Mrs. William WOOCK whose remains were brought to Strongs Prairie, the home of her childhood, for burial on Saturday the 16th, has cast a shadow over many hearts that knew and loved her as a child, shared her joys and sorrows in girlhood, and who have not been forgotten or ignored by her in the days of her womanhood and prosperity. The nobility of her character was inherent, and so beyond the reach of the influences of change of position, or the mutations of time. Through all she remained the gentle, kind, loving, ever helpful ministering spirit for good. None envied the prosperity that came to her for she bore herself so modestly, so generously considerate, so worthily, that all felt that higher, nobler, above all its surroundings, was the beautiful soul of the woman herself. Other friends, and many of them have been devotedly attached to her in the later years of her life, but the friends of her girlhood and early womanhood remained the cherished friends of her maturer years. Maria Alice KNIGHT was born May 28th, 1852, on Strongs Prairie, where she passed her girlhood in the home of her parents, Ezra and Rachael KNIGHT. Mr. and Mrs. KNIGHT were among the earliest settlers on Strongs Prairie, and are widely known and highly respected. In June, 1869, Maria was married to William WOOCK, then a merchant and miller at Arkdale in this county, and they resided at that place until 1882, when the family removed to Baraboo, where they resided at the time of her death. She died at Battle Creek, Michigan, where she had gone to receive medical treatment, though neither she or her immediate friends regarded her health as in a critically dangerous condition, though her health had not been good for some time. A husband and three children survive her to mourn the loss of one whose wise and loving counsel and gentle ministrations no other voice or hands can give. The children, Wm. P. WOOCK, aged 19, a student at Ripon college; Mabel, aged 16, and Grace Genevieve, aged 8.