Obituary: Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Julia Elizabeth Eaton EDWARDS ************************************************************************ Submitted by Kathy Grace, November 2004 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ Winneconne Local Sept. 16, 1915 p.1 Mrs. Julia Elizabeth Eaton Edwards was born in Freedonia, Licking County, Ohio, on November 27th, 1843. Her death took place at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ernestine Miller, on Tuesday evening, September 7th, 1915, at twenty minutes past six o'clock. The Eaton family came to Winneconne in 1850, remaining here two years, when they moved to Crystal Lake, Waupaca County, Wisconsin. Here on March 19th, 1867, Julia Eaton was united in marriage to Joshua W. Edwards, who death occurred on January 24th, 1902. Of her immediate family two daughters survive: Miss Edythe Edwards and Mrs. Ernestine Edwards Miller, both of this place. She also leaves two sisters, Mrs. Harriet Gano and Mrs. Mary Fuller of Lewiston, Idaho, and a brother Willard Henry Eaton of Primgahr, Iowa. In the early married life of the deceased when her years were full of happiness and of bright prospects for the future, a severe affliction came to this family of four, the mother became an invalid, helpless for life it was feared. Not withstanding all the difficulties to which her affliction subjected her she never lost her cheerful disposition nor her persistency to overcome her infirmities. For many years she was able by her strong determination, to surmount every obstacle in the way for looking after the interest of her household and the welfare of her husband and two daughters. A most wonderful testimony to her ambition is the yards and yards of beautifully knitted lace of various widths and designs; lace that is treasured by her family as something too precious to use; it was made by their mother's one well hand, her left. Her daughters at an early age gradually relived their mother of her household cares until they could assume the entire responsibility. They have been untiring in their efforts to make her declining years peaceful and happy and full of interest and enjoyment. This noble mother, beautiful in death as in life, will be sadly missed; by her daughters, too deeply for words; by her neighbors, who she never failed to greet with a sunny smile; by every one with whom she came in contact.