"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 70, No 15, p 479, Apr. 10, 1911.
Phebe Adelaide Howland, youngest of four daughters of William and Cynthia Sheldon Howland, was born in South Adams, Berkshire County, Mass., September 17, 1836, and died at her home in Walworth, Wisconsin, January 25, 1911.
She was the descendant of two prominent families in the early history of this country; through her father, from John Howland, the last survivor of the Pilgrim band that came to America on the Mayflower in 1620, and through her mother, from the Sheldon family, that came to America in 1710 and the members of which were especially prominent during the colonial and revolutionary periods of this country.
At the age of three years she was left an orphan and together with her sisters went to live with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John Sheldon, in North Adams, Mass., and in 1845 accompanied them to their new home in Wisconsin, coming by the Erie Canal and Great Lakes to Kenosha, Wis., and driving overland from that place to Big Foot, arriving there on the first of September of that year. During the next ten years she made her home with her aunts, Mrs. Asenath Fish of Big Foot and Mrs. Elizabeth Hayden of the White Oaks.
She was united in marriage to Henry J. Maxson of Walworth, June 1, 1856, and began housekeeping on the Asa L. Maxson farm, one mile east and south of Walworth, where they resided until they purchased their prairie farm, one mile south of Walworth, and erected buildings thereon.
In the spring of 1892 failing health necessitated their leaving the farm and they moved to the village of Walworth, where Mr. Maxson died the following October, since which time Mrs. Maxson had resided in Walworth.
She was the mother of eight children, one son, Charles, having died in 1886, in his twenty-second year. Seven children - Dwight, Lewis, Cynthia and Mabel Maxson of Walworth, Mrs. E. W. Sheffer of Madison, Fred J. Maxson of Chicago and Dr. J. G. Maxson of Harvard, twelve grandchildren and two great-grandchildren are left to mourn her loss.
Mrs. Maxson was a member of the Walworth Seventh-day Baptist Church. She was a woman of large intelligence and the possessor of many excellent traits of character. She was a devoted wife and a wise and tender mother, and won the respect and love of a large circle of friends, who mourn her death and sympathize with sorrowing sons and daughters.
Funeral services were held at the home in Walworth, Sabbath afternoon, January 28, and she was carried to her last resting place in the Walworth Cemetery by her sons and grandsons, to rest in peace.
Phebe Adelaide Howland, youngest of four daughters of William and Cynthia Sheldon Howland, was born in South Adams, Berkshire County, Mass., September 17, 1836, and died at her home in Walworth, Wisconsin, January 25, 1911.
She was the descendant of two prominent families in the early history of this country; through her father, from John Howland, the last survivor of the Pilgrim band that came to America on the Mayflower in 1620, and through her mother, from the Sheldon family, that came to America in 1710 and the members of which were especially prominent during the colonial and revolutionary periods of this country.
At the age of three years she was left an orphan and together with her sisters went to live with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John Sheldon, in North Adams, Mass., and in 1845 accompanied them to their new home in Wisconsin, coming by the Erie Canal and Great Lakes to Kenosha, Wis., and driving overland from that place to Big Foot, arriving there on the first of September of that year. During the next ten years she made her home with her aunts, Mrs. Asenath Fish of Big Foot and Mrs. Elizabeth Hayden of the White Oaks.
She was united in marriage to Henry J. Maxson of Walworth, June 1, 1856, and began housekeeping on the Asa L. Maxson farm, one mile east and south of Walworth, where they resided until they purchased their prairie farm, one mile south of Walworth, and erected buildings thereon.
In the spring of 1892 failing health necessitated their leaving the farm and they moved to the village of Walworth, where Mr. Maxson died the following October, since which time Mrs. Maxson had resided in Walworth.
She was the mother of eight children, one son, Charles, having died in 1886, in his twenty-second year. Seven children - Dwight, Lewis, Cynthia and Mabel Maxson of Walworth, Mrs. E. W. Sheffer of Madison, Fred J. Maxson of Chicago and Dr. J. G. Maxson of Harvard, twelve grandchildren and two great-grandchildren are left to mourn her loss.
Mrs. Maxson was a member of the Walworth Seventh-day Baptist Church. She was a woman of large intelligence and the possessor of many excellent traits of character. She was a devoted wife and a wise and tender mother, and won the respect and love of a large circle of friends, who mourn her death and sympathize with sorrowing sons and daughters.
Funeral services were held at the home in Walworth, Sabbath afternoon, January 28, and she was carried to her last resting place in the Walworth Cemetery by her sons and grandsons, to rest in peace.
"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 70, No 15, p 479, Apr. 10, 1911.
Phebe Adelaide Howland, youngest of four daughters of William and Cynthia Sheldon Howland, was born in South Adams, Berkshire County, Mass., September 17, 1836, and died at her home in Walworth, Wisconsin, January 25, 1911.
She was the descendant of two prominent families in the early history of this country; through her father, from John Howland, the last survivor of the Pilgrim band that came to America on the Mayflower in 1620, and through her mother, from the Sheldon family, that came to America in 1710 and the members of which were especially prominent during the colonial and revolutionary periods of this country.
At the age of three years she was left an orphan and together with her sisters went to live with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John Sheldon, in North Adams, Mass., and in 1845 accompanied them to their new home in Wisconsin, coming by the Erie Canal and Great Lakes to Kenosha, Wis., and driving overland from that place to Big Foot, arriving there on the first of September of that year. During the next ten years she made her home with her aunts, Mrs. Asenath Fish of Big Foot and Mrs. Elizabeth Hayden of the White Oaks.
She was united in marriage to Henry J. Maxson of Walworth, June 1, 1856, and began housekeeping on the Asa L. Maxson farm, one mile east and south of Walworth, where they resided until they purchased their prairie farm, one mile south of Walworth, and erected buildings thereon.
In the spring of 1892 failing health necessitated their leaving the farm and they moved to the village of Walworth, where Mr. Maxson died the following October, since which time Mrs. Maxson had resided in Walworth.
She was the mother of eight children, one son, Charles, having died in 1886, in his twenty-second year. Seven children - Dwight, Lewis, Cynthia and Mabel Maxson of Walworth, Mrs. E. W. Sheffer of Madison, Fred J. Maxson of Chicago and Dr. J. G. Maxson of Harvard, twelve grandchildren and two great-grandchildren are left to mourn her loss.
Mrs. Maxson was a member of the Walworth Seventh-day Baptist Church. She was a woman of large intelligence and the possessor of many excellent traits of character. She was a devoted wife and a wise and tender mother, and won the respect and love of a large circle of friends, who mourn her death and sympathize with sorrowing sons and daughters.
Funeral services were held at the home in Walworth, Sabbath afternoon, January 28, and she was carried to her last resting place in the Walworth Cemetery by her sons and grandsons, to rest in peace.
Phebe Adelaide Howland, youngest of four daughters of William and Cynthia Sheldon Howland, was born in South Adams, Berkshire County, Mass., September 17, 1836, and died at her home in Walworth, Wisconsin, January 25, 1911.
She was the descendant of two prominent families in the early history of this country; through her father, from John Howland, the last survivor of the Pilgrim band that came to America on the Mayflower in 1620, and through her mother, from the Sheldon family, that came to America in 1710 and the members of which were especially prominent during the colonial and revolutionary periods of this country.
At the age of three years she was left an orphan and together with her sisters went to live with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John Sheldon, in North Adams, Mass., and in 1845 accompanied them to their new home in Wisconsin, coming by the Erie Canal and Great Lakes to Kenosha, Wis., and driving overland from that place to Big Foot, arriving there on the first of September of that year. During the next ten years she made her home with her aunts, Mrs. Asenath Fish of Big Foot and Mrs. Elizabeth Hayden of the White Oaks.
She was united in marriage to Henry J. Maxson of Walworth, June 1, 1856, and began housekeeping on the Asa L. Maxson farm, one mile east and south of Walworth, where they resided until they purchased their prairie farm, one mile south of Walworth, and erected buildings thereon.
In the spring of 1892 failing health necessitated their leaving the farm and they moved to the village of Walworth, where Mr. Maxson died the following October, since which time Mrs. Maxson had resided in Walworth.
She was the mother of eight children, one son, Charles, having died in 1886, in his twenty-second year. Seven children - Dwight, Lewis, Cynthia and Mabel Maxson of Walworth, Mrs. E. W. Sheffer of Madison, Fred J. Maxson of Chicago and Dr. J. G. Maxson of Harvard, twelve grandchildren and two great-grandchildren are left to mourn her loss.
Mrs. Maxson was a member of the Walworth Seventh-day Baptist Church. She was a woman of large intelligence and the possessor of many excellent traits of character. She was a devoted wife and a wise and tender mother, and won the respect and love of a large circle of friends, who mourn her death and sympathize with sorrowing sons and daughters.
Funeral services were held at the home in Walworth, Sabbath afternoon, January 28, and she was carried to her last resting place in the Walworth Cemetery by her sons and grandsons, to rest in peace.
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