Obituary: Rock County, Wisconsin: Stephen FAIRBANKS

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Submitted by Ruth Ann Montgomery, <rmontgomery@cishome.com> April 2008

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We are sorry to say that the protracted sickness of Mr. Stephen Fairbanks
continues without much hope of his speedy recovery. He has been confined to
his house for a number of weeks and in spite of medical aid and the best of
care, he continues to fail. We hope to learn of an improvement before
another week, but our fears are against us now. July 24, 1867, Evansville
Citizen, p. 4, col. 1, Evansville, Wisconsin

DIED. In Evansville, October 5, 1867, Stephen W. Fairbanks, aged 54 years
and five months.

Mr. Fairbanks was a worthy member of the Methodist Episcopal Church in this
place and for a number of years bore a Christian and exemplary character.
By his social nature and his business life he acquired a wide circle of
friends and acquaintances. For nearly five months he had been confined to
his house by a lingering sickness, but with Christian patience and heroic
fortitude bore all his sufferings with calmness and serenity till death
called him home, to whose mandates he, without a struggle or groan,
quietlyr esigne dhimself early on Sunday morning last. He leaves a wife and
one daughter to lament his loss.

October 9, 1867, Evansivlle Citizen, p. 4, col. 1, Evansville, Wisconsin