Obituary: Rock County, Wisconsin: Amelia S. SPENCER

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DIED

SPENCER--Mrs. Amelia S., wife of P. F. Spencer, died November 12, 1882;
aged 68 years and 4 months.

Mrs. Spencer was born in Springfield vt., July 11th, 1814; was married to
P. F. Spencer in 1835; and moved with her husband and family, to Evansville
in 1853, and had lived here 29 years last May.

She had lived an active, vigorous life and was much esteemed by her friends
and neighbors. Up to within a short period, her health had been usually
good. Two weeks ago she returned from a visit to Milwaukee, upon Tuesday
last, dined with Henry Spencer's family, in apparently good health and
spirits and was about her house until Friday. Her disease or that which
siezed more firmly upon her, at this time, was quinzy, complicated with
other complaints and she remained in a nearly unconscious condition up to
the moment of her death which occurred about six o'clock Sunday evening.
She died, as it was remarked by those who stood beside her bed, that "her
life went out like a candle." She was buried at 2 o'clock Wednesday from
the house, Rev. F. M. Washburn of the Free Baptist church, of which society
she had long been a member, preached the sermon.

The family--six brothers and their families, were present, and a daughter,
Mrs. David Dawson, from Iowa, besides numerous friends and citizens of the
place.

Evansville Review, Saturday, Nov. 18, 1882, p. 3, col. 3, Evansville,
Wisconsin