OBITUARIES:  Rachel DALTON, Colfax, Dunn County, WI

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Called Beyond

The Death of Mrs. Rachel Dalton occurred at the home of her son S. G. Dalton
at Bloomer on Sunday morning, after an illness of only a few days.  She has
been in failing health for some time past from Infirmaties incident to old
age, but was able to be about until a couple of days before the end.

Rachel Withrow was born in White Country, Ill., Jan. 22, 1829.  She was
married to Stephen Dalton on July 12, 1844, after which she lived in
Kentucky four years, returning to Illinois where she lived until 1864, when
she moved to Wisconsin.  In 1879 she moved to Kansas where they resided
until the death of Mr. Dalton in 1884.  Since his death she has made her
home with her children, most of the time with her daughter, Mrs. Henrietta
Shipman of Bloomer.

To the couple nine children were born, four sons and two daughters
surviving.  She was a woman of Sterling, Christian character who was loved
by every body and was known as Grandma Dalton by all.  She was a woman of
wonderful physical strength and made two trip to California and back alone
after she had reached the age of Seventy years, the last trip she made the
year she was eighty years old.

The funeral was held at the Cong. church in Bloomer last Monday
afternoonev., R.A. Bell officiating.  Interment was made in the Chase
Settlement cemetary.  Not lost but gone before.

-- Typed as found in the Colfax Messenger - May 3, 1912