Obituary: Rock County, Wisconsin: Alzina A. PIERCE

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Submitted by Ruth Ann Montgomery, <rmontgomery@cishome.com> June 2005

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Last Tuesday afternoon the remains of Mrs. Alzina A. Pierce late of Union,
Rock Co., were laid away in the cemetery at Evansville. The funeral
services were conducted at her late home by Rev. Irving Towsley, pastor of
Universalist church in Stoughton. Old friends and neighbors, and the
members of the family filled the house and yard. Deceased was born in
Denmark, Lewis Co., N. Y., August 28, 1809. She came to Rock County forty-
seven years ago. Her husband died ten years ago in Sept. Since that time
she made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Coggin, at Union. She passed
quietly away last Sunday morning, being six days past her nintieth
birthday. Mrs. Pierce had always been a woman of great intelligence and
until injured last June by a wound on her finger that gave her much pain
was a constant reader. She is survived by four sons and three daughters.
All were present at the funeral but one son. Her sons are Lucian, of
Clinton, Ia; A. W. of Rockford, Ill, Walter of Wessington Springs, Dakota
who was not able to be present and Flavus J. Her daughters are Mrs. Lora
Griggs, recently of Rockford, Ill., who at present makes her home with her
sister, Mrs. Ella Coggin of Union.

September 9, 1899, The Badger, Evansville, Wisconsin