Obituary: Portage County, Wisconsin: Mary A. (King) KIMBALL Stevens Point Daily Journal Friday, Feb. 24, 1899 Mrs. J.T. Kimball Lady Falls on the Walk and Dies from Her Injuries. Mrs. J.T. Kimball died at her home at 803 Elk street at 10:45 o'clock Thursday night. Tuesday morning between 9 and 10 o'clock Mrs. Kimball started to go over to the meat market. As she was passing along the walk on Park street in front of side of O. Parmeter's building she fell on an icy incline. Both feet slipped out from under her and she went down with great violence striking the back of her head on the walk. She was picked up by a passing friend and taken home in A.H. Krohn's sleigh. She she got to her home she was able to walk into the house, but was very weak and had to lie down at once. She seemed to know that she was going to die and told her son's wife to say goodbye for her to all the family. A physician was called, but was unable to help her any as her injuries were inside the skull. It is supposed that a blood vessel at the base of the brain was ruptured. At about 1:30 that afternoon, she become unconscious and continued so until the end, except for about an hour Wednesday night, when she conversed in a rational manner and told how she fell and asked for some of the children. Miss Mary A. King was born in the town of Augusta, Oneida county, N.Y., on July 16, 1853, 63 years ago. She was married to Jay T. Kimball of the same place on March 2, 1853. They afterward moved to Erie county, Penn., where they lived on a farm for a time and later kept the Girard house at Girard. They came to Plover in 1871 and lived on a farm up to five years ago, when they moved to this city. They were the parents of nine children, eight of whom are still living, all residents of Stevens Point except the oldest, Ella Kimball, who married Mex Lego and lives at Mitchell, Mont. The others are Bert, James, Nathan, Clinton, Mrs. Iva Nelson, Charles and Miss Jessie. The funeral will be held at 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon from the house, Rev. Jacob Patch officiating. The internment iwll take place in the Episcopal cemetery beside the grave of her mother, who died several years ago. ************************************************************************ Submitted by Kathy Grace, 10 June 2004© All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************