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Josiah L LaFollette

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Josiah L LaFollette

Birth
Nelson County, Kentucky, USA
Death
16 Feb 1856 (aged 38)
Primrose, Dane County, Wisconsin, USA
Burial
Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin, USA
Plot
Section 4, Lot 099 - 100 - 101, Grave 2
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Josiah was buried in Green Prairie cemetery in Potsville, Green Co, WI when he died. His deceased child Marion was moved from the farm burial site, to be buried with his father in the Potsville Cemetery. Josiah was disinterred and buried at Forest Hill Cemetery in Madison, Dane Co., WI. in the LaFollette plot on 25 Apr1894.∼On February 16, 1856 Josiah La Follette died as a complication of pneumonia and diabetes. He was only 39 years old. After a simple funeral service consisting of a prayer by his neighbor and good friend Deacon David Thomas and some hymns his body was taken for burial in Green's Prairie Cemetery in Postville, Green Co., WI.

After Josiah's wife died in Madison, WI in 1894 it was decided to move Josiah's body to to be buried in Madison beside her. His son Robert "Fighting Bob" LaFollette consulted with his friend, Dr. Cornelius Harper, as to the necessary preparations. Then Robert drove with his brother William to Postville with a gravedigger. When the gravedigger dug down the coffin they found had rotted but they could still tell where the coffin had been. Bob himself jumped into the grave and carefully removed the remains of his father's skeleton. The bones were reburied in the Forest Hill Cemetery in Madison WI on April 23, 1894.

Excerpts based on information in "Robert M. LaFollette" by Belle Case LeFollette and Floria LaFollete, The Macmillan Company, NY, 1953. Vol. 1, page 130

Note: No obituary/death notice was found for Josiah in the Wisconsin State Journal for this year.
Josiah was buried in Green Prairie cemetery in Potsville, Green Co, WI when he died. His deceased child Marion was moved from the farm burial site, to be buried with his father in the Potsville Cemetery. Josiah was disinterred and buried at Forest Hill Cemetery in Madison, Dane Co., WI. in the LaFollette plot on 25 Apr1894.∼On February 16, 1856 Josiah La Follette died as a complication of pneumonia and diabetes. He was only 39 years old. After a simple funeral service consisting of a prayer by his neighbor and good friend Deacon David Thomas and some hymns his body was taken for burial in Green's Prairie Cemetery in Postville, Green Co., WI.

After Josiah's wife died in Madison, WI in 1894 it was decided to move Josiah's body to to be buried in Madison beside her. His son Robert "Fighting Bob" LaFollette consulted with his friend, Dr. Cornelius Harper, as to the necessary preparations. Then Robert drove with his brother William to Postville with a gravedigger. When the gravedigger dug down the coffin they found had rotted but they could still tell where the coffin had been. Bob himself jumped into the grave and carefully removed the remains of his father's skeleton. The bones were reburied in the Forest Hill Cemetery in Madison WI on April 23, 1894.

Excerpts based on information in "Robert M. LaFollette" by Belle Case LeFollette and Floria LaFollete, The Macmillan Company, NY, 1953. Vol. 1, page 130

Note: No obituary/death notice was found for Josiah in the Wisconsin State Journal for this year.

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