Obituary: Rock County, Wisconsin: Rose HUBBARD ************************************************************************ Submitted by Ruth Ann Montgomery, May 2005 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ Mrs. Rose Hubbard Mrs. Rose Hubbard, widow of Ephraim Hubbard, who lived on a farm on the Union road, two miles north of Evansville, took her life by drinking carbolic acid Sunday morning. She was found by her adopted son, Samuel Shaver, about seven o'clock Sunday morning. He was led to her room by the smell of carbolic acid and he found her in bed ghastly white, her life fluttering away, and the bottle which had contained the poisonous liquid was on the rug by the bedside. Medical aid was summoned as soon as possible, but she had passed away before a doctor could arrive. It is thought that grief over the death of her husband which occurred some four months ago was the cause of her rash act. Mrs. Hubbard was born in Virgil, Ill., in 1858. Twenty-three years ago she came to Wisconsin and lived with her aunt, Mrs. Wood, at the Central House, Evansville. Two years later she was married to Mr. Hubbard and they removed to the farm in the town of Union, two miles out of Evansville, and has made that place her home since that time. Having no children of their own, a nephew, Samuel Shaver, has lived with them the past 13 years, and has been as faithful and dutiful as a son. Besides her adopted son, the deceased leaves two sisters and three brothers: Mrs. S. M. Brown of St. Charles, Ill.; Mrs. Grace Solomon, Burlington, Ill.; W. W. Munn of St. Charles, Ill; J. J. Munn of Foley, Ala., and W. B. Munn of Panama. The funeral services were held at the home Tuesday afternoon and the interment was in Maple Hill cemetery. August 31, 1911, Evansville Review, p. 1, col. 4, Evansville, Wisconsin STATE of WISCONSIN, County court for Rock county. In probate. Notice is hereby given that at a regular term of the county court to be held in and for said county, at the court house, in the city of Janesville, in said county, on the first Tuesday being the third day of October, 1911, at 9 o'clock a.m. the following matter will be heard and considered: The application of William M. Munn for the appointment of an administrator of the estate of Rose M. Hubbard late of the town of Union in said county, deceased. Dated August 30, 1911, By the Court, J. W. Sale, County Judge. R. M. Richmond, attorney. August 31, 1911, Evansville Review, p. 7, col. 4, Evansville, Wisconsin