OBITUARIES:  Rhoda I. BABCOCK, Augusta, Eau Claire Co., WI 

====================================================================
USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information 
on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as 
this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may 
NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other 
persons or organizations.

Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes 
other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file 
contributor, or the legal representative of the contributor, and contact 
the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent.   The submitter 
has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently 
for free access.

This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by:  
Janice Tilman  <HTilman@aol.com>  13 August 2000	
====================================================================

BABCOCK-Mrs. Rhoda I. Babcock passed away Tuesday, Dec. 28, 1915 at 6:30 p.m. 
at the home of her brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. John Norton of 
Augusta with whom she had lived since last September, a year. Her departure 
was easy. Four weeks before her death came, a second stroke of paralysis 
caused her to fall and break her right hip, the side affected by the first 
stroke.

Mrs. Babcock was born in Connecticut, January 16, 1830. At the age of 
sixteen, in the state of Ohio, she was married to David R. Babcock. After 
living eight years in Ohio they migrated to Wisconsin and located in the
southern part of the state. Sometime later they settled on a farm in Thompson 
Valley and lived about Augusta during the last fifty years. Mrs. Babcock 
outlived her husband by fourteen years, was the mother of three boys and two 
girls, the oldest surviving and living in Mott, South Dakota. One brother 
survives her, Mr. John Norton, of Augusta. She was among the members of the 
Thompson Valley M.E. church.

Funeral services were held last Sunday, January 2, at noon at the home of Mr. 
and Mrs. John Norton. Interment in Thompson Valley cemetery. Rev. C.H. 
Scheick officiated.

--Taken from The Augusta Eagle
Augusta, Wisconsin, Friday, January 7, 1916