"The Milton Journal", Milton, Wisconsin, Thursday, Aug. 2, 1906, p 1.
Angeline Hicks Wilbur was born in Dutchess County, N. Y., August 26, 1814, and died at the home of her son Walter Wilbur, in the town of Harmony, Wis., July 24, 1906, having reached the age of 91 years, 10 months and 28 days. She was the oldest of a family of thirteen children, five of whom are still living.
On the sixth of June, 1832, she was married to George Wilbur. Seven sons and one daughter came to bless and brighten their home. The daughter and one son, George B. Wilbur, have preceded their mother to their eternal home. Six sons of the family are still living.
For forty years Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur walked life's pathway together, sharing its joys and sorrows and each seeking to make lighter the burden for the other until August 25, 1872, when the husband and father was called to his reward.
After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur remained for several years in N. Y. state and in the spring of 1846 they came to Wisconsin and settled on section 15 in the town of Harmony and this has been Mrs. Wilbur's home during the years since except about four years spent in the village of Milton. For sixty years Mrs. Wilbur has been a resident of this vicinity.
In 1846, when Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur, with their family of small children, came to the township of Harmony, this was a pioneer country and they experienced with others of that day, the hardships of pioneer life.
It was a sturdy race of men and women who braved the privations and hardships of those pioneer days and laid well in the wilderness the foundations of the great states that we have today. The custom was to come by the lakes to Milwaukee and then on foot or by the use of oxen to go out into the wilderness and with the poor and scant material at hand to construct some sort of a shelter and in time a log cabin and with but few of the conveniences of civilized life undertake the task of making homes and laying the foundations of a state. Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur had their share of such experiences and bore their share of the burdens incident to building a home in a new country and to laying the foundations of a new community.
We who today enjoy the comfortable homes and the general prosperity of these well established communities owe more than we can well realize to those who so bravely endured the hardships and privations of those early days. A generation of men and women are rapidly passing away who had within them the spirit of true heroism. The well tilled farms, the public schools and other public institutions, together with the high moral tone of the society, we owe largely to the earnest lives and faithful work of this generation, the pioneers of these western states.
Mrs. Wilbur was reared in the Methodist church but after coming west she united with the Universalist church and was true to her church obligations and also to the services of the church until advanced years and other causes made it impossible for her to attend.
Mrs. Wilbur is spoken of as a woman of many noble traits of character, a good neighbor, a loving wife and a careful painstaking mother. The generation that knew her have long since passed over to the other side, and now she has been gathered to her people.
The funeral services conducted by Rev. T. W. North of Milton Junction, were held in the afternoon of July 26, at the home in Harmony where she had so long lived. It was one of the larger funerals of the community. The gathering of so many friends and neighbors at this very busy season of the year was an evidence of the high esteem in which this worthy pioneer was held by the people of the community. A long line of carriages followed the remains to the beautiful cemetery where the interment took place.
T. W. N.
Angeline Hicks Wilbur was born in Dutchess County, N. Y., August 26, 1814, and died at the home of her son Walter Wilbur, in the town of Harmony, Wis., July 24, 1906, having reached the age of 91 years, 10 months and 28 days. She was the oldest of a family of thirteen children, five of whom are still living.
On the sixth of June, 1832, she was married to George Wilbur. Seven sons and one daughter came to bless and brighten their home. The daughter and one son, George B. Wilbur, have preceded their mother to their eternal home. Six sons of the family are still living.
For forty years Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur walked life's pathway together, sharing its joys and sorrows and each seeking to make lighter the burden for the other until August 25, 1872, when the husband and father was called to his reward.
After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur remained for several years in N. Y. state and in the spring of 1846 they came to Wisconsin and settled on section 15 in the town of Harmony and this has been Mrs. Wilbur's home during the years since except about four years spent in the village of Milton. For sixty years Mrs. Wilbur has been a resident of this vicinity.
In 1846, when Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur, with their family of small children, came to the township of Harmony, this was a pioneer country and they experienced with others of that day, the hardships of pioneer life.
It was a sturdy race of men and women who braved the privations and hardships of those pioneer days and laid well in the wilderness the foundations of the great states that we have today. The custom was to come by the lakes to Milwaukee and then on foot or by the use of oxen to go out into the wilderness and with the poor and scant material at hand to construct some sort of a shelter and in time a log cabin and with but few of the conveniences of civilized life undertake the task of making homes and laying the foundations of a state. Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur had their share of such experiences and bore their share of the burdens incident to building a home in a new country and to laying the foundations of a new community.
We who today enjoy the comfortable homes and the general prosperity of these well established communities owe more than we can well realize to those who so bravely endured the hardships and privations of those early days. A generation of men and women are rapidly passing away who had within them the spirit of true heroism. The well tilled farms, the public schools and other public institutions, together with the high moral tone of the society, we owe largely to the earnest lives and faithful work of this generation, the pioneers of these western states.
Mrs. Wilbur was reared in the Methodist church but after coming west she united with the Universalist church and was true to her church obligations and also to the services of the church until advanced years and other causes made it impossible for her to attend.
Mrs. Wilbur is spoken of as a woman of many noble traits of character, a good neighbor, a loving wife and a careful painstaking mother. The generation that knew her have long since passed over to the other side, and now she has been gathered to her people.
The funeral services conducted by Rev. T. W. North of Milton Junction, were held in the afternoon of July 26, at the home in Harmony where she had so long lived. It was one of the larger funerals of the community. The gathering of so many friends and neighbors at this very busy season of the year was an evidence of the high esteem in which this worthy pioneer was held by the people of the community. A long line of carriages followed the remains to the beautiful cemetery where the interment took place.
T. W. N.
"The Milton Journal", Milton, Wisconsin, Thursday, Aug. 2, 1906, p 1.
Angeline Hicks Wilbur was born in Dutchess County, N. Y., August 26, 1814, and died at the home of her son Walter Wilbur, in the town of Harmony, Wis., July 24, 1906, having reached the age of 91 years, 10 months and 28 days. She was the oldest of a family of thirteen children, five of whom are still living.
On the sixth of June, 1832, she was married to George Wilbur. Seven sons and one daughter came to bless and brighten their home. The daughter and one son, George B. Wilbur, have preceded their mother to their eternal home. Six sons of the family are still living.
For forty years Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur walked life's pathway together, sharing its joys and sorrows and each seeking to make lighter the burden for the other until August 25, 1872, when the husband and father was called to his reward.
After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur remained for several years in N. Y. state and in the spring of 1846 they came to Wisconsin and settled on section 15 in the town of Harmony and this has been Mrs. Wilbur's home during the years since except about four years spent in the village of Milton. For sixty years Mrs. Wilbur has been a resident of this vicinity.
In 1846, when Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur, with their family of small children, came to the township of Harmony, this was a pioneer country and they experienced with others of that day, the hardships of pioneer life.
It was a sturdy race of men and women who braved the privations and hardships of those pioneer days and laid well in the wilderness the foundations of the great states that we have today. The custom was to come by the lakes to Milwaukee and then on foot or by the use of oxen to go out into the wilderness and with the poor and scant material at hand to construct some sort of a shelter and in time a log cabin and with but few of the conveniences of civilized life undertake the task of making homes and laying the foundations of a state. Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur had their share of such experiences and bore their share of the burdens incident to building a home in a new country and to laying the foundations of a new community.
We who today enjoy the comfortable homes and the general prosperity of these well established communities owe more than we can well realize to those who so bravely endured the hardships and privations of those early days. A generation of men and women are rapidly passing away who had within them the spirit of true heroism. The well tilled farms, the public schools and other public institutions, together with the high moral tone of the society, we owe largely to the earnest lives and faithful work of this generation, the pioneers of these western states.
Mrs. Wilbur was reared in the Methodist church but after coming west she united with the Universalist church and was true to her church obligations and also to the services of the church until advanced years and other causes made it impossible for her to attend.
Mrs. Wilbur is spoken of as a woman of many noble traits of character, a good neighbor, a loving wife and a careful painstaking mother. The generation that knew her have long since passed over to the other side, and now she has been gathered to her people.
The funeral services conducted by Rev. T. W. North of Milton Junction, were held in the afternoon of July 26, at the home in Harmony where she had so long lived. It was one of the larger funerals of the community. The gathering of so many friends and neighbors at this very busy season of the year was an evidence of the high esteem in which this worthy pioneer was held by the people of the community. A long line of carriages followed the remains to the beautiful cemetery where the interment took place.
T. W. N.
Angeline Hicks Wilbur was born in Dutchess County, N. Y., August 26, 1814, and died at the home of her son Walter Wilbur, in the town of Harmony, Wis., July 24, 1906, having reached the age of 91 years, 10 months and 28 days. She was the oldest of a family of thirteen children, five of whom are still living.
On the sixth of June, 1832, she was married to George Wilbur. Seven sons and one daughter came to bless and brighten their home. The daughter and one son, George B. Wilbur, have preceded their mother to their eternal home. Six sons of the family are still living.
For forty years Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur walked life's pathway together, sharing its joys and sorrows and each seeking to make lighter the burden for the other until August 25, 1872, when the husband and father was called to his reward.
After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur remained for several years in N. Y. state and in the spring of 1846 they came to Wisconsin and settled on section 15 in the town of Harmony and this has been Mrs. Wilbur's home during the years since except about four years spent in the village of Milton. For sixty years Mrs. Wilbur has been a resident of this vicinity.
In 1846, when Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur, with their family of small children, came to the township of Harmony, this was a pioneer country and they experienced with others of that day, the hardships of pioneer life.
It was a sturdy race of men and women who braved the privations and hardships of those pioneer days and laid well in the wilderness the foundations of the great states that we have today. The custom was to come by the lakes to Milwaukee and then on foot or by the use of oxen to go out into the wilderness and with the poor and scant material at hand to construct some sort of a shelter and in time a log cabin and with but few of the conveniences of civilized life undertake the task of making homes and laying the foundations of a state. Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur had their share of such experiences and bore their share of the burdens incident to building a home in a new country and to laying the foundations of a new community.
We who today enjoy the comfortable homes and the general prosperity of these well established communities owe more than we can well realize to those who so bravely endured the hardships and privations of those early days. A generation of men and women are rapidly passing away who had within them the spirit of true heroism. The well tilled farms, the public schools and other public institutions, together with the high moral tone of the society, we owe largely to the earnest lives and faithful work of this generation, the pioneers of these western states.
Mrs. Wilbur was reared in the Methodist church but after coming west she united with the Universalist church and was true to her church obligations and also to the services of the church until advanced years and other causes made it impossible for her to attend.
Mrs. Wilbur is spoken of as a woman of many noble traits of character, a good neighbor, a loving wife and a careful painstaking mother. The generation that knew her have long since passed over to the other side, and now she has been gathered to her people.
The funeral services conducted by Rev. T. W. North of Milton Junction, were held in the afternoon of July 26, at the home in Harmony where she had so long lived. It was one of the larger funerals of the community. The gathering of so many friends and neighbors at this very busy season of the year was an evidence of the high esteem in which this worthy pioneer was held by the people of the community. A long line of carriages followed the remains to the beautiful cemetery where the interment took place.
T. W. N.
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