Obituary: Rock County, Wisconsin: Margaret Robinson WEST

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Obituary

Margaret Robinson, born in Champaign Co., Ohio, Aug. 6, 1814, died Dec. 19,
1898; married to Jacob West Dec. 1, 1831; moved to Bloomington, Ill., in
the early spring of 1836, where they lost their first child, Wm. R. West,
only a few months old. In the fall of 1836 they moved and settled on a farm
in the town of Rock Grove, Stephenson Co., Ill; this farm was on the state
lines of Illinois and Wisconsin; on this farm James R. was born. In the
early spring of 1840 they came to Evansville, or as then the township of
Union. The first land taken up by Jacob West was land east of the village
on the north side of the Janesville road across from what isnow known as
the Hopkins farm. A few years after he made a change and took up the land
now known as the Reuben Johnson and John Searles place.

Eight children were born to them, five of whom are now living, namely James
R. West, of Elgin, Ill.; J. H. West, Evansville, Wis.; Mrs. Lora Thompson
and Mrs. Clara Osborn, Minneapolis; Mrs. Lina J. Goddard, Shiloh, S. Dak.
Stephen died while in the army at Leavenworth, Kas., spring of 1862. John
W. died in Evansville in spring of 1882, from disease contracted in the
army.

She had four sons in the army, two of them living, the only mother in this
township that gave four sons to the service of our country. She was one of
the charter members of the first church society organized in this town in
the spring of 1840, and was the last to respond to the Master's call,
having been a member of the M. E. church for nearly 70 years. Her husband,
Jacob West died in 1882, since that time "Aunt Margaret" as everybody
called her, has made her home among her children, for the last three years
most of the time with her son James R., who resides at Elgin, Ill., where
she died after a year of intense suffering, but no murmur or word of
complaint was ever heard from her.

Her remains were brought here for burial services at the M. E. church at 2
o'clock Dec. 21, conducted by Rev. H. Sewell and Rev. Wm. Rollins, tenderly
placed by the side of father and son by two sons James R. and J. H., three
nephews A. S. Baker, S. J. Baker, F. A. Baker, and Judge J. W. Sale of
Janesville, followed as honorary bearers, by Dr. J. M. Evans, Samuel
Cadwallader, Wm. Garfield, W. H. Walker, Nelson Winston and Leroy Springer.

December 27, 1898, The Tribune, p. 1, col. 7. Evansville, Wisconsin