Obituary: Rock County, Wisconsin: William WAINWRIGHT ************************************************************************ Submitted by Ruth Ann Montgomery, June 2005 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ TAPS SOUND FOR OLD SOLDIER William Wainwright Answers Final Summons William Wainwright passed away yesterday morning at 6 o'clock following an illness of eleven weeks. Mr. Wainwright was well known to the people of Evansville and vicinity, having lived here for many years. He was born May 30, 1850, in Schoharie county, New York, where he lived until the war broke out between the north and the south, when he enlisted and became a corporal in Company F, 20 Regiment of New York state militia or the 80th N. Y., serving his country for two years. After the war he came to Wisconsin and located at Kilbourn City. For thirty-five years he has been a resident of Evansville, the most of this time behing engaged in the painting business. He was marred June 11, 1885 to Mrs. Edna Speer of this city. To this union there were born three children, one of whom died in infancy. He is survived by the widow, one son, Forrest Wainwright of Chicago and a daughter, Mrs. Winnifred Hansen of Oxford, Wisconsin, also be a stepson, Joseph Speer, and one grandchild, Josephine Hansen and three sister. He was a member of T. L. Sutphen Post, No. 41, G. A. R. and of the Independent Order of Odd Feloows, and of the "Camp" of Janesville. The funeral will be held at the Methodist Episcopal church tomorrow afternoon at two-thirty, under the auspices of the Odd Fellows' lodge. The service at the church will be conducted by the pastor, the Rev. C. E. Coon. The interment will be in Maple Hill Cemetery. February 4, 1915, The Evansville Review, p. 5, col. 3, Evansville, Wisconsin