Obituary: Green County, Wisconsin: Sidney SLATER

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Submitted by Ruth Ann Montgomery, <rmontgomery@cishome.com> May 2005

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Sidney Slater was born in Stroudsburg, Penn., in 1840 and passed away at
his home near Evansville, Wis., March 19, 1923. His early life was spent in
farming and lumbering in Pennsylvania. In 1865 he came to Madison, Wis., to
the home of his uncle, Abraham Murphy. He spent the following four years
working in sawmills and driving on the river in the lumbering districts
around Grand Rapids. He then settled on a farm near Brooklyn, Wis., where
he resided for fifteen years. He was married to Salina De Jean in October
1871, to which union was born six children, one, Nettie having died in
infancy. His wife, two daughters, Mrs. George Fenn of Magnolia and Mrs.
Arnold Luchsinger of Barrington, Ill, three sons, Joseph at home, Truman of
Barrington, Ill, and Burr of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, seven grand-children and
three great grand-children remain to mourn his departure. From Brooklyn he
moved with his family to a farm near Belleville, Wis., where he resided for
nineteen years; then moving to his recent home near Evansville where he
spent the last sixteen years of his life. He was converted and joined the
U. B. Church at Rutland, Wis., in the winter of 1872. He was a sincere,
consistent member of the same till in later years he became affiliated with
the M. E. Church. He was a kind and loving husband and father, a loyal
citizen of his country, an idealist, and was highly respected by all who
knew him.

Funeral services were held Thursday, March 22, 9:00 A.M. at the farm home
and 10:00 A. M. at the Methodist Church in Evansville, the Rev. F. P.
Hanaman, officiating. Interment was made in the Belleville cemetery.

March 29, 1923, Evansville Review, Evansville, Wisconsin