Amanda Rebeca (Axtell) Starks 1845-1926 obit
AGED RESIDENT OF
TOWN OF MUKWA BURIED
New London -- The funeral of Mrs. Amanda Starks, 81, who died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. James Poppy, Thursday morning, was held at 2:30 on Saturday afternoon at the Poppy home in the township of Mukwa, in which region Mrs. Starks had made her home for the last 40 years. The funeral was in charge of the Rev. V.W. Bell, pastor of the First Methodist church of this city, and interment was made in Floral Hill cemetery.
--Appleton Post Crescent, (Appleton, Wisconsin) Page 6, Saturday, 20 February 1926
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In 1846 John Axtell took his wife, daughter Amanda and his household goods, and went by boat, railroad, Erie Canal, Great Lakes and ox-team through the wilderness to northern Wisconsin. They settled near Oshkosh where his father and six brothers were already living, "all of whom were honest, honorable men, respected and looked up to by their neighbors." All had trades, good homes and sufficient of this world's goods to take care of themselves through life. John Axtell built a mill for the US Government on Little Wolf River in what is now Waupaca County, for the Indians. His wife Emeline is said to have been the first white woman to have set foot in what is now Waupaca County.
AGED RESIDENT OF
TOWN OF MUKWA BURIED
New London -- The funeral of Mrs. Amanda Starks, 81, who died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. James Poppy, Thursday morning, was held at 2:30 on Saturday afternoon at the Poppy home in the township of Mukwa, in which region Mrs. Starks had made her home for the last 40 years. The funeral was in charge of the Rev. V.W. Bell, pastor of the First Methodist church of this city, and interment was made in Floral Hill cemetery.
--Appleton Post Crescent, (Appleton, Wisconsin) Page 6, Saturday, 20 February 1926
Found on Newspaperarchive.com
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In 1846 John Axtell took his wife, daughter Amanda and his household goods, and went by boat, railroad, Erie Canal, Great Lakes and ox-team through the wilderness to northern Wisconsin. They settled near Oshkosh where his father and six brothers were already living, "all of whom were honest, honorable men, respected and looked up to by their neighbors." All had trades, good homes and sufficient of this world's goods to take care of themselves through life. John Axtell built a mill for the US Government on Little Wolf River in what is now Waupaca County, for the Indians. His wife Emeline is said to have been the first white woman to have set foot in what is now Waupaca County.
Amanda Rebeca (Axtell) Starks 1845-1926 obit
AGED RESIDENT OF
TOWN OF MUKWA BURIED
New London -- The funeral of Mrs. Amanda Starks, 81, who died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. James Poppy, Thursday morning, was held at 2:30 on Saturday afternoon at the Poppy home in the township of Mukwa, in which region Mrs. Starks had made her home for the last 40 years. The funeral was in charge of the Rev. V.W. Bell, pastor of the First Methodist church of this city, and interment was made in Floral Hill cemetery.
--Appleton Post Crescent, (Appleton, Wisconsin) Page 6, Saturday, 20 February 1926
Found on Newspaperarchive.com
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In 1846 John Axtell took his wife, daughter Amanda and his household goods, and went by boat, railroad, Erie Canal, Great Lakes and ox-team through the wilderness to northern Wisconsin. They settled near Oshkosh where his father and six brothers were already living, "all of whom were honest, honorable men, respected and looked up to by their neighbors." All had trades, good homes and sufficient of this world's goods to take care of themselves through life. John Axtell built a mill for the US Government on Little Wolf River in what is now Waupaca County, for the Indians. His wife Emeline is said to have been the first white woman to have set foot in what is now Waupaca County.
AGED RESIDENT OF
TOWN OF MUKWA BURIED
New London -- The funeral of Mrs. Amanda Starks, 81, who died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. James Poppy, Thursday morning, was held at 2:30 on Saturday afternoon at the Poppy home in the township of Mukwa, in which region Mrs. Starks had made her home for the last 40 years. The funeral was in charge of the Rev. V.W. Bell, pastor of the First Methodist church of this city, and interment was made in Floral Hill cemetery.
--Appleton Post Crescent, (Appleton, Wisconsin) Page 6, Saturday, 20 February 1926
Found on Newspaperarchive.com
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In 1846 John Axtell took his wife, daughter Amanda and his household goods, and went by boat, railroad, Erie Canal, Great Lakes and ox-team through the wilderness to northern Wisconsin. They settled near Oshkosh where his father and six brothers were already living, "all of whom were honest, honorable men, respected and looked up to by their neighbors." All had trades, good homes and sufficient of this world's goods to take care of themselves through life. John Axtell built a mill for the US Government on Little Wolf River in what is now Waupaca County, for the Indians. His wife Emeline is said to have been the first white woman to have set foot in what is now Waupaca County.
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