Obituary: Rock County, Wisconsin: Richard DOWSE

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OBITUARY

RICHARD DOWSE

On the morning of April 30, 1910, Richard Dowse passed to his rest after an
illness of nearly eleven weeks.

Richard Dowse was born at Frampton, near Boston, Lincolnshire, England,
August 20, 1849. He came to Wisconsin when about twelve years of age, and
spent several years in and near Janesville, and when his parents and
younger sister and brother came to this country, he went on a farm to make
a home for them and himself.

He was married to Miss Ella A. Hadley of Porter, Rock county, Wisconsin,
Dec. 18, 1890, and lived on a farm in Porter township about seven miles
from Evansville for several years, then one year in Evansville, afterwards
moving to a farm in Walworth county, where he spent two years, the first in
working the farm, and the second a helpless invalid from a stroke of
apoplexy. Here many kind friends assisted the family in caring for him
during the first weeks of his affliction, and also at the close of the year
in moving the household belongings to Elkhorn and getting them on the cars.

The family returned to Evansville in April, 1891, and since that time have
lived on South Madison street.

Mr. Dowse, or Dick, as nearly every one called him, gradually grew better
until he was able to get around quite well and to do a considerable work in
the garden and around the home. He was ever patient, happy and cheerful,
with a firm faith in God and his goodness to mankind. He was a member of
the reorganized church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, having joined
that organization in July 1894, always living a faithful, consistent
Christian life.

He always had a pleasant word for all he met, and gained a host of friends,
who, by word and deed, expressed their sympathy for him during the last
weeks of his life. His last sickness was of cancerous origin. He expressed
the wish that he might live if he could be as well as he had been in the
two years past, but was not afraid to die.

He leaves to mourn his loss a loving wife and daughter, two sisters, Mrs.
H. C. Hadley of Brooklyn, Wis., and Miss Jane Dowse of Chicago, Ill., and
two brothers, Jarvis of South Shields, England and Charles of Spring
Prairie, Wis., besides many other relatives and friends.

The funeral was held from the home on South Madison street at 1:30 p.m.,
Monday May 2. Elder W. A. McDowell of Williams Bay, officiating.

CARD OF THANKS

To the many kind friends who so nobly assisted during the sickness and
death of Richard Dowse, and for the many beautiful floral offerings, we
wish to express our heartfelt thanks.

Ella A. Dowse, Vera Dowse

May 5, 1910, Evansville Review, p. 4, col. 3 & 4, Evansville, Wisconsin