Obituary: Rock County, Wisconsin: Jane Reese PURINTON

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

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IN MEMORIAM

Mrs. Sylvester Purinton

The death of Mrs. Sylvester Purinton occurred Saturday afternoon. The news
was so unexpected that it could hardly be believed at first as it passed
through the community. She had been out to church on the Sunday before and
it had not been generally known that she was not well.

She had been in poor health, but not considered serious at all for two or
three months, but was not confined to her bed until Thursday of last week.

Jane Reese was born in the town of Albany, Green county, May 19, 1858, one
of a family of fifteen children, eleven of whom have been living for over
forty years. The old log house that was her childhood home is still
standing beside the road between here and Albany.

She was married July 3, 1876, to Sylvester S. Purinton. For the last
twenty-three years they have made their home on the farm just east of
Evansville. Mrs. Purinton leaves three daughters, Mrs. C. J. Hendricks of
Milwaukee, Mrs. Max Fisher and Miss Marion Purinton of Evansville.

Besides her own family she is mourned by four brothers, William Reese of
Evansville, Price, and Aaron Reese of Winnepeg, Canada, and Oliver of
Madison and five sisters, Mrs. James Powles, Mrs. Charles Powles, Mrs.
Charles Spencer, Mrs. L. L. Baley and Mrs. Ed Smith, all of this city.

Mrs. Purinton was a member of the Afternoon Club, the Pythian Sisters and
the Royal Neighbors.

The funeral service was held at the home Tuesday afternoon, and was in
charge of Mr. D. Quincy Grabill. Mr. Clifford Pearsall came up from Beloit
and sang two appropriate solos. The floral expresses of sympathy were
numerous and very beautiful indeed. The interment was in Maple Hill
cemetery.

At the time of Mrs. Purinton's death her brother Richard was expected to
pass away at any time at his home in Albany, and word came that the end had
come on Sunday afternoon, two members thus being taken from the same family
within twenty-four hours.

October 24, 1912, Evansville Review, p. 4, col. 3, Evansville, Wisconsin