Obituary: Rock County, Wisconsin: A. M. HUNGERFORD

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OBITUARY -- A. M. HUNGERFORD

A. M. Hungerford, who died at his home in this city, December 22, was born
at Mt. Morris, N. Y., March 6, 1845. The youngest child of Josiah and
Elizabeth Hungerford. Four brothers and two sisters all of whom have gone
to rest. The family moved west from New York in 1855, remaining at
Kankakee, Ill. for a few months because of illness and death of his father.
This left the mother to live the life of a pioneer and raise a family under
her own guidance as so many pioneer women did. Most of Mr. Hungerford's
early life was spent near Spring Gree, Wis. He and his four brothers all
answered their country's call in the 60's. Eugene the oldest left the
University of Wisconsin in the same spirit that the U. W. is showing today.
He was killed at Marys Heights in Burnsides historic assault at
Fredricksburg. Edwin died at Corinth, Miss. The remaining three returned at
the close of the war to civil life. Mr. Hungerford was united in marriage
to Miss Frances Finn, in 1880. Five children were born to them, Bert, of
Evansville; Earl and Ralph, of Madison and Mrs. Florence Wade, of Three
Forks, Mont.; Roy also of Three Forks, Mont., who was laid at rest in the
same lot with his father, at Madison, being buried ten days before his
father's death. How much the loss of this son had to do with his father's
death we cannot know. His life has been lived mainly on the farm with the
exception of a few years he lived in Madison, Three Forks, Mont., and
Evansville. He was a man of integrity and neighborly spirit. He and his
four brothers were in the ranks of those who fought against and shared
their rations with the soldiers of the Confederacy. He now rests across the
aisle from many of those who filled the Confederate ranks at Forest Hill,
Madison, Wisconsin.

January 9, 1919, Evansville Review, p. 8, col. 3, Evansville, Wisconsin