Obituary: Rock County, Wisconsin: Sophronia DOOLITTLE ************************************************************************ Submitted by Ruth Ann Montgomery, May 2005 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ OBITUARY Mrs. Sophronia C. Doolittle, wife of Daniel Doolittle, Esq., died at her home after a lengthy sickness on the evening of July 3d, 1877, aged 57 years. Mrs. Doolittle's complaint was dropsy of the heart. Although it was apparent to herself and her famly that she could not expect to recover, yet her complaint presented flattering hopes at times that she might. A few weeks previous she rode out, and had been able to walk about the house, yet she was feeble, and it was well known that her demise was only a question of time. She was a worthy and acceptable member of the Methodist church, with which she had been connected some twenty-six years. She has always borne the character of a christian woman, and always had friends wherever she had acquaintances, who now mourn her departure. She was kind to all, and bore her sufferings with christian grace and frotitude. Se was buried from the Methodist church. Rev. J. D. Cole preached the funeral discourse. Her coffin was beautifully festooned with wreathes, on the lid of which were two ample crosses, made from flowers and vines by the ladies Andrews and West. The silver plate bore the inscription, beautifully engraved in Old English by Dr. Beebe, SOPHRONIA C. DOOLITTLE Age 57 YEARS DIED JULY 3d, 1877 July 11, 1877, p. 3, col. 3, Evansville Review, Evansville, Wisconsin