Obituary: Rock County, Wisconsin: Sarah STOCKWELL ************************************************************************ Submitted by Ruth Ann Montgomery, June 2005 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ OBITUARY Mrs. S. H. Stockwell Mrs. Stockwell died this morning about eight o'clock. The end came very peacefully and easily. Mrs. Stockwell retaining consciousness to the very last. She was first stricken with paralysis the fifth of December, from which she rallied and was able to be out and in the homes of her friends. About six weeks ago Mrs. Stockwell suffered from a severe attack of heart trouble since which time she has been at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Bertha Blackmun. The immediate cause of her taking away was dropsy. Sarah Harriet Denney was born in Jefferson County, N. Y., March 30, 1840. She had four brothers and three sisters. The brothers have all preceded her to the great beyond. The sisters are Mrs. Helen M. Smith of Albany, Wis., Mrs. Hannah Elphee of Mayfield, N. Y., and Carrie W. Fosmire of Glouversville, N. Y. Together with her sister, Mrs. Smith, she came to Wisconsin in the fall of 1860 and settled near Magnolia. Since this time her home has always been in Rock county, and for the past twenty seven years in Evansville. Besides the sisters Mrs. Stockwell leaves two daughters, Blanch H. Searles of Salt Lake City, and Mrs. Bertha E. Blackmun of Evansville and three grandchildren, Effie Glidden, Russel G. Searles and Doris Blackmun. The funeral services will be at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Blackmun at one thirty sharp Saturday afternoon, and will be in charge of Mr. D. Quincy Grabill of the Congregational church. They will be of the most simple nature. The burial will be at the Lee cemeter near Magnolia. Mrs. Stockwell was a loyal and active member of the Congregational church and of the Woman's Missionary society. She had a wide circle of frineds who extend their sympathy to the relatives, with whom they join in mourning the loss of one who tried faithfully to fill her place in her church and neighborhood. March 14, 1912, Evansville Review, p. 4, col. 1, Evansville, Wisconsin