He was born in New York and moved to Wisconsin JOHN OSCAR GOTHAM, better known to his host of friends as Oscar Gotham, was born in the township of Lind Aug. 1, 1860 and passed from the scenes of this earthly life at the late home, 316 Jefferson Street, Waupaca, Wis., Sunday morning, Mar. 14, 1926, thus being a little past the sixty-fifth milestone of life. He was one of eight born to John and Lucy Gotham, only one of whom, Mrs. Frances Wilkins, of Parfreyville, survives. The entire sixty-five years of his life were spent in the close environs of his birthplace and where the body is laid away in the silent city. March 4, 1886 he was united in marriage to Miss Romelia Court. Together the have journeyed down the forty years of life`s pilgram way. Three children were born of this union. Ethel Olive, now Mrs. Waid of Parfreyville, George H., who passed away in the springtime of 1917, and Floyd H., who fortunatly has been able to be at home during the last brief illness of his father. Mr. Gotham was the product of a fine christian home and as naturally as the day-dawn he gave his heart to God early in life and united with the Methodist Episcopal Church of which he ever remained a useful and faithful member. Mr. Gotham is survived by the widow, the daughter, Mrs. Waid, the son, Floyd, Two grandchildren, Kenneth Gotham Waid, and Muriel G. Waid, and the sister, Mrs. Frances Wilkins. The funeral services were held from the late home on Jefferson Street on Tuesday afternoon at two O`clock, Rev. F. C. Richardson, his pastor, conducting the service. Miss Helen Sill and Miss Dorothy Richardson sang two selections with Miss Corine Bemis at the piano. Those acting as pall bearers were; Messrs. Edgard and Burtis Court of Hurley, Wis., B. W. Waid, William Kratz, Norman Baker, and Otis Baker. Internment was in Lakeside Cemetery.