Dane County WI Archives Photo Tombstone.....SLAGG, Mary Dunbar ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wi/wifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Erin Proctor Proctor37@charter.net March 17, 2007, 9:17 pm Cemetery: Albion Prairie Cemetery, Albion, Dane Co., Wi. Name: Mary Dunbar SLAGG Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/wi/dane/photos/tombstones/albionprairie/slagg7612gph.jpg Image file size: 94.9 Kb SLAGG, Mary Dunbar 13 Mar 1872- 09 Jun 1954 Dau of George and Hellen (CALDER) SILVERWOOD Married Wilmer A. SLAGG on 22 Jan 1894 in Albion, Dane Co., Wi. Obit is from the Edgerton Reporter, Edgerton, Rock CO., Wi., Thur. 17 June 1954: MARY DUNBAR SLAGG Mary Dunbar Slagg, daughter of George and Hellen Calder Silverwood, was born in a log house on the Silverwood farm in the town of Albion, Dane co., Wisconsin, on March 13, 1872. She was of English and Scotch ancestry, her father having come to this country from Shelley, England, in 1852. THe silverwood family consisted of four girls and three boys, one sister, Beulah, died od scarlet fever in infancy, another sister, Ann, died of injuries recieved in a railroad crossing accident in Edgerton more than forty five years ago, and two brothers, Thomas and George, died in recent years. She attended Sumner Public School and Albion academy and did substitute teaching in the Albion Prairie School. On January 22, 1894, she was married to Wilmer A. Slagg at the home of her parents in the town of Albion, by Rev. M.C. Baker, of the Albion Prairie Primitive Methodist Church. Thereafter they operated and owned the Slagg farm on Albion Prairie, where they continued to reside until 1928 when they retired and moved to Edgerton. Three children were born of this marriage, Lowell, who died on July 11, 1928, Stanley, and attorney of Edgerton, and Genevieve, now Mrs. Donald R. McCann of Dallas, Texas. Her husband passed away on March 10, 1936. Mrs. Slagg served as Clerk of Albion Prairie School Destrict No. 5 for several years, was a member of the Primitive Methodist Church of Albion, and its Ladies Aid Society, the Lotus Club of Albion Priaire, the Philomathian Club of Edgerton, the Edgerton Chapter of the Order of Eastern Star and the Daughters of the King, of the First Congregational Church, Edgerton. During the early years of her life, there were Indians living near Busseyville Creek and Lake Koshkonong in the neighborhood of the Silverwood farm, and Mrs. Slagg remembered many occasions when the Indians came to the home of the Silverwood farm begging for food, clothing, and articles of personal adornment. Those were the days of the dirt wagon trail, the log homes, the spinning wheel and hand labor to perform ardous farm duties. During the eighty two years of her life she saw and experienced great changes in our was of living. The Indians are gone and Koshkonong Lake is surrounded by vacation homes; the log houses with old kitchen stoves, candle light and spinning wheels have been replaced with homes equiped with all of the modern conveniences of electricity, running water, telephone, radio and television. Tractors and power driven machinery have replaced horses and oxen as motive power and have taken much of the drudgery of hand labor out of farming operations. In her youth she often walked the several miles from her home to attend the Primitive Methodist Church on Albion Prairie. Transportation has changed since then from travel on foot and by horse and wagon, on a dirt trail across the fields, to the automobile and truck over a carefully enginered concrete road and to the fast train and airplane. About sixteen months ago, Mrs. Slaff took her first airplane ride when she made the trip from Chicago to Dallas by airline to visit her daughter. She had a long and fruitful life in that golden era of America, which was marked by continous change and progress. For several years Mrs. Slagg had spent the winter months with her daughter in Dallas, Texas. She had gone there on Dec. 16, 1953, and intended to return to her home in Edgerton on April 14th, but was stricken on April 9th, and was in the hospital there until she passed away on June 9, 1954, at about 9 o'clock in the evening. She is survived by her son, Stanley, and daughter, Genevieve, five grandsons, Lowell, Stanley and Bruce Slagg, Donnie and Tommie McCann, two grandaughters, Janice and Candace Slagg, one sister, Mrs. Emma Naset of Woodbridge, Virginia, and one brother Percy W. Silverwood of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Funeral services were held on Sunday, June 13th at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, at the Primitive Methodist Church on Albion Prairie, with Rev/ Alban Tippins, pastor of the church, and Rev. Leo Duerson of the First Congregational Church, Edgerton officiating. Mrs. Rutherford Bussey sang "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" accompanied by Mrs. Edwin Marsden. The bearers were three grandsons, Lowell, Don and Bruce Slagg, two nephews, Ralph and Russell Silverwood, and Harold Craig, a next door neighbor when Mrs. Slagg lived on the farm. THose from out of town attending included Mrs. Emma Naset and Miss Billie Mays, Woodbridge, Virginia; Mr. and Mrs. Percy W. Silverwood, Grand Rapids, Michigan; Mr. and Mrs. George Silverwood, Green bay, Wisconsin; Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Silverwood, Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Zehner, Eagle River, Wisconsin; Mrs. Letheema Slagg and Mr. and Mrs. David Dahle, Deerfield, Wis; Miss Venice Slagg and Miss Lulu Tall, Madison, WIs.; Mrs. Harley Fadness, Cambridge, Wis.; Miss Sadie Slagg, Fort Atkinson, Wis.; Mr. and Harry Lowe, Whitewater, Wis.; Mr. and Mrs. Clair Hardwick, Stoughton, Wis.; Mrs. and Mrs. Roy Marsden, Cederburg, Wis.; Prof. H.H. James, Winnebago, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. C.J. Kotad, Green Bay, Wis.; and Mr. and Mrs. Wilfrid Porter, Janesville, Wis. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/dane/photos/tombstones/albionprairie/slagg7612gph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/wifiles/ File size: 6.2 Kb