OBITUARY: Menomonee Falls News Mar 7, 1913 "AGED WOMAN PASSES AWAY. Mrs. George M. Bancroft Dies at Her Home on Monday. "Amanda" Bancroft, as she was affectionately know to her many relatives and friends passed on to her reward at her house in the village, Monday, Mar 3, aged 82 years. At her bedside were her daughter and son. She was in excellent health up to a week before the end, but on the evening of February 25 she suffered a slight paralytic stroke, which was the primary cause of death. Her going marks the rapidly decreasing number of those rugged pioneers of Wisconsin's early days. Mrs. Bancroft was the daughter of William and Maria Minor of Riga, Monroe county, New York, where she was born on Mar 4,(?) 1832. In the year 1847 her parens came to Wisconsin by way of the Great Lakes, the trip being made in September and the voyage proved a stormy one. They arrived in Menomonee and settled on what is now known as the Minor farm. In the years following the deceased and her family labored steadily to complete the home. On Nov. 4, 1849, she was united in marriage to George Bancroft. They were blessed with four children, three of whom are now living. They are Mrs. Ella Wood of Waupaca, Charles, who resides here, and Bert, of Waukesha. Time had dealt kindly with this noble pair and they were spared to celebrate their golden wedding anniversary in 1899. Mr. Bancroft died in 1905. Of her family one sister remains, Mrs. Jane Smith of Milwaukee. There are three grand-children and three great grand-children. The deceased was a devoted member of the M. E. Church. A woman of fine character, always obliging and thought..."
OBITUARY: Menomonee Falls News Mar 7, 1913 "AGED WOMAN PASSES AWAY. Mrs. George M. Bancroft Dies at Her Home on Monday. "Amanda" Bancroft, as she was affectionately know to her many relatives and friends passed on to her reward at her house in the village, Monday, Mar 3, aged 82 years. At her bedside were her daughter and son. She was in excellent health up to a week before the end, but on the evening of February 25 she suffered a slight paralytic stroke, which was the primary cause of death. Her going marks the rapidly decreasing number of those rugged pioneers of Wisconsin's early days. Mrs. Bancroft was the daughter of William and Maria Minor of Riga, Monroe county, New York, where she was born on Mar 4,(?) 1832. In the year 1847 her parens came to Wisconsin by way of the Great Lakes, the trip being made in September and the voyage proved a stormy one. They arrived in Menomonee and settled on what is now known as the Minor farm. In the years following the deceased and her family labored steadily to complete the home. On Nov. 4, 1849, she was united in marriage to George Bancroft. They were blessed with four children, three of whom are now living. They are Mrs. Ella Wood of Waupaca, Charles, who resides here, and Bert, of Waukesha. Time had dealt kindly with this noble pair and they were spared to celebrate their golden wedding anniversary in 1899. Mr. Bancroft died in 1905. Of her family one sister remains, Mrs. Jane Smith of Milwaukee. There are three grand-children and three great grand-children. The deceased was a devoted member of the M. E. Church. A woman of fine character, always obliging and thought..."
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