Obituary: Winnebago County, Wisconsin: F. W. PLEASANTS ************************************************************************ Submitted by Kathy Grace, January 2010 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.org/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ Daily Northwestern August 16, 1895 p.1 F.W. Pleasants Dead Prominent citizen of Menasha dies at his home in that city Menasha, Wis., Aug. 16.-- F.W. Pleasants, one of the best known residents of this city, died at his home on Naymut street at 8:30 o'clock last evening. The cause of death was congestion of the lungs caused by paralysis. Mr. Pleasants was born in Richmond, Va., Jan. 8, 1823. When 25 years of age he removed to New York city, where he engaged in business with Henry Ludlow, a former resident of Richmond. Ludlow and Pleasants were agents for the first steampship line that ever plied between New York and Richmond. In 1855 Mr. Pleasants married Miss McCarty, only child of Col. John M. McCarty of Virginia. In 1858 Mr. Pleasants returned to Richmond and served during the war as secretary in the adjutant general's office. In 1865, after the close of the war, Mr. Pleasants removed to the family estate in Linden county, Virginia, where, with his family, he resided up to 1877, when he came to Menasha to give his attention to large real estate interests in Wisconsin. For the past ten years Mr. Pleasants has been a confirmed invalid. He leaves a wife and seven children, two sons and five daughters.