Obituary: Rock County, Wisconsin: Adeline SPENCER

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

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Mrs. Adeline Spencer was born at Beloit, Wisconsin, October 7, 1857 and
died at Oak Park, Ill., May 21, 1926. She was married May 14, 1879. Mrs.
Spencer was the oldest of eleven children. Four sisters and one brother of
the remaining eight children were present at the funeral; also several
nieces, nephews and cousins.

We have said our last farewell to the dear friend, Mrs. Louis Spencer,
whose life in our midst is a happy memory. Coming to Evansvill as the bride
of Mr. Louis Spencer some forty-seven years ago, she with her husband
started the new home on the farm southwest of town. Here their children
Mrs. Frank Frost, Oak Park, Mrs. Frank Francis, Estes Park, Colo., and son
Howard, who died in infancy were born. The two daughters and their husbands
were present at the funeral.

Later, Mr. and Mrs. Spencer moved to Evansville and built the beautiful
home on Grove Street, where the funeral service was held on Sunday last.
Mr. Spencer's funeral from the same home occurred last July, Rev. O. W.
Smith officiating each time.

The hospitality extended from this home will long be remembered by the
large circle who were so fortunate as to call this couple friends. Mrs.
Spencer was a charming hostess, who beautifully exemplified the words found
in Proverbs, "She looketh well to the ways of her household.... She openeth
her mouth with wisdom."

Among the sweetest memories which we have of Mrs. Spencer are our
recollections of her fine spirit in the Club life of our city, where she
entered so heartily into every activity which developed. Giving us
delightfully of herself as president of both the Afternoon club; also
filling other offices on executive boards most efficiently.

Mrs. Spencer had a rare appreciation of the finest literature and this gift
was a rich asset in our Club life. We shall miss her kindly, sweet spirit,
her genial companionship, her social gifts which were manifested at their
best in her hospitality, and her wise efficient counsel in the affairs of
our town as they became a part of our Club life.

Miss Weaver's sympathetic singing of "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere," made a
fitting prelude to Mr. Smith's comforting words at the funeral. At its
close we were filled with the thought expressed in the service, that the
dear one had indeed passed to the "Land of the True, Where we live Anew."

May 27, 1926, p. 8, col. 3 & 4, Evansville Review, Evansville, Wisconsin