Obituary: Rock County, Wisconsin: Jane DOWSE ************************************************************************ Submitted by Ruth Ann Montgomery, June 2005 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ OBITUARY Died: Monday Dec. twelveth, at the home of her daugther in the town of Porter, Mrs. Jane Dowse, aged eighty-two years. Jane Lane was born Sept. 22, 1816, at Boston, Lincolnshire, Engalnd. When a girl she was confirmed as a member of the Episcopal church but about fifteen years ago united with the Congregational church at Cooksville. She was married in 1837 to Jarvis Dowse who died ten years ago. For the past twenty-nine years Mrs. Dowse has been a resident of Rock County. Out of a family of ten children, two sons and one daughter are dead, leaving four sons and three daughters to mourn her loss. The funeral occurred at Mr. Hadley's in Porter, Thursday morning at ten o'clock. Interment was made in Janesville. December 17, 1898, The Badger, p. 1, col. 4, Evansville, Wisconsin Mrs. Jane Dowse died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. H. C. Hadley in Porter, on Monday Dec. 12, 1898. Evansville Review, December 15, 1898, Evansville, Wisconsin