Obituary: Jackson County, Wisconsin: Joseph STICKNEY ************************************************************************ Submitted by Joan Benner, May 2005 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ From the Badger State Banner [Black River Falls, Jackson Co., WI], May 2, 1889, Page 4 Column 5 DIED--STICKNEY--At the City Hotel, in this city, Thursday evening April 25, 1889, of paralysis, Mr. Joseph STICKNEY, aged 73 years. Mr. STICKNEY was one of the party who came here in the spring of 1839, in the employ of Robert and Andrew WOOD; under Jacob SPAULDING, millwright, forming the first settlement on Black River which was followed by continuous residence. There are now only two known survivors of these original settlers. One of these is a brother of the deceased, Alonzo STICKNEY, and is now in California. The other, Hiram YEATMAN, resides in the second ward, in this city, and is nearly seventy-six years of age. The deceased was not only one of the first settlers on the Black River, but he may also be said to have had the longest continuous residence in Black River Falls of any man in it at the time of his death. He returned to Prairie du Chien in the spring of the same year of his arrival here, but returned in 1846, and has resided continuously here since. In early years he, in partnership with his brother Alonzo, bought a farm just west of the present fairgrounds and he resided there ever since until about a year ago. The funeral was held at the hotel Saturday afternoon, and was quite well attended by old settlers and prominent citizens. Rev. Bley was the officiating minister.