Obituary: Rock County, Wisconsin: John WALL ************************************************************************ Submitted by Ruth Ann Montgomery, February 2007 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ LINGERING ILLNESS FATAL TO JOHN WALL Dies Wednesday in Janesville Hospital; Funeral Rites Will Be Held Here Friday John Wall, 76, a life-long resident of this community, died at 3 p.m. Wednesday in Mercy hospital, Janesville, following a lingering illness of a year and one-half. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Friday in the Allen funeral home and at 2 p.m. in the Union Baptist church, the Rev. Robert H. Pratt officiating. Burial will be made in Maple Hill cemetery with six sons as pallbearers. Mr. Wall was born in Kent county, England, Dec. 6, 1854, and came to this country at the age of six weeks living in New York state until he was eight years of age. Because of the death of his father he was taken into the home of James Lincoln and brought to Union where he has since resided. In the year 1881 Mr. Wall was married to Ida G. Devereaux. They purchased the old Cunningham estate where they resided until 1897. Mr. Wall then purchased the James Ellwood place in the village of Union where he resided until his death. To Mr. and Mrs. Wall were born nine children, the eldest, Fred, having died at the age of nine years. Eight children survive, Harley, of Neillsville; Leonard of Joliet, Ill.; Floyd, Victor, Burton, Lyle, Pliny and Mrs. Leslie Smith, Evansville; 13 grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Mr. Wall was preceeded in death by his wife who died Feb. 16, 1922; two sister, Mrs. James Clark, New York; Mrs. Mary Franklin, Union; and two brothers, George of Texas, and William of Iowa. Mr. Wall was a member of the Baptist church at Union where he sang in the choir for 40 years. He was also active in community affairs. At one time he was a member of the town board and was appointed a delegate to the National Farmers convention held in Brownsville, Tex. He was a man of sterling qualities and of a strictly temperate nature. February 5, 1931, pp. 1 & 8, Evansville Review, Evansville, Wisconsin