Obituary: Rock County, Wisconsin: Charles M. S. PULLEN ************************************************************************ Submitted by Ruth Ann Montgomery, June 2005 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ Charles M. S. Pullen, second son of Rev. and Mrs. C. M. Pullen, was born August 21, 1876, in Elkhorn, Walworth County, Wis., and departed this life Jan. 29, 1895, aged 18 years, 5 months and 8 days. He entered Shattuck school in Farribault, Minn., at the age of fourteen and would have graduated in June 1895. He died at the hospital of the school after a brief illness of five days of acute pneumonia. The funeral occurred at the school on Wednesday, Thursday the family came to Evansville, where they were met by their eldest son, from Buffalo and other relatives. On Friday there was a short service held at the residence of Dr. C. M. Smith after which interment took place here, in the family lot. Mrs. C. M. Pullen, is a sister of Dr. C. M. Smith, and Rev. C. M. Pullen is a nephew of Hon. L. T. Pullen. They each spent much of their youth here, were married here at St. John's and their wide circle of friends mourn with them in their recent affliction. During his four years of student life the deceased maintained an enviable repution in scholarship and noble, manly and christian character. He had just received a captain's commission in the military department of the school and had occupied various positions of trust and responsibilty and discharged his duties with the utmost faithfulness and integrity. He stood among the first in scholarship and was a leader in all affairs that tended to elevate the moral and intellectual tone of the school. The Rector, Faculty and students are justly proud of the record he has left. He was a consistent member of the Episcopal church and died in the "communion of the Catholic church in the confidence of a certain faith, in the comfort of a reasonable, religious and holy hope, favor with God and in perfect charity with the world." February 9, 1895, The Badger, p. 1,c ol. 4, Evansville, Wisconsin The funeral of Charles M. Pullen, Jr. took place from the residence of his uncle, Dr. C. M. Smith, Friday moring at ten o'clock. The deceased was eighteen years of age, a senior in the military school at Fairibault, Minn., and his death seems especially sad. His father, the Rev. Chas. M. Pullen, is a nephew of Mr. L. T. Pullen of this city, and is well known in this vicinity, being rector of Christ's church, Janesville, not long since. The death was caused by pneumonia, the patient being ill but a short time, dying Jan. 29. The funeral proper took place at the school and the interment, preceded by a short service, was made in the family lot here. February 2, 1895, The Badger, p. 1, col. 4, Evansville, Wisconsin