Obituary: Rock County, Wisconsin: Zevela PETTIGREW ************************************************************************ Submitted by Ruth Ann Montgomery, April 2008 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ Mr. Harvey Prentice's daughter, Mrs. J. A. Pettigrew, of Vermillion, D. T., whose sickness we mentioned last week, presents hopes of recovery. Mr. Vennett Prentice of that place having been sick for sometime is as we learned on the amend. January 19, 1876, Evansville Review, p. 3, col. 2, Evansville, Wisconsin DIED -- In Vermillion, Sunday evening, February 6, 1876, Mrs. J. A. Pettigrew, aged 27 years, 10 months 15 days. Though the public knew of Mrs. Pettigrew's severe sickness, yet her death shocked all her friends and found them illy prepared to receive the news. The loss which is occasioned by her death is not felt alone by her family, nor by her church, but it is a loss which is felt by all those who knew her. Her actions were so gentle, her ways so affectionate that she easily won friends and easily kept them when once gained. She may be laid away beyond all human sight, but her life, her gentle spirit, her simple Christian faith will forever live in the memory of her friends, they will live and be fragrant with the sweetness of heaven. -- Vermillion Register. Mrs. J. A. Pettigrew arrived, with the remains of his wife, from Dakota, on the 3:20 Friday morning train. The hearse was at the depot, waiting, and the remains were immediately taken to the home she had left but a few months before in her usual health and spirits. Friends called Friday and Saturday to view the form, as it lay enrobed in the casket of death, and gazed with sadness upon one who was a friend to all. Many more would have gladly called, to mingle their grief with the over-sorrowing hearts of husband and friends, had not the annoyance and exposure been too great for the members of Mr. Prentice's family just recovering from fever attack. The funeral was attended by all who could gain admission. Had the funeral been a public one, no accessible room in the place would have accomodated the audience. The coffin was beautifully draped, and festooned with wreaths of myrtle, giving a weired sadness to the otherwise appropriate emblems of death. February 16, 1876, Evansville Review, p. 3, col. 4, Evansville, Wisconsin Maple Hill Cemetery, Evansville, Wisconsin: Zevella S. Prentice Pettigrew, wife of J. A.: March 31, 1848 - February 6, 1876