from the Janesville Daily Gazette 23 December, 1901:
Life's burden dropped from the weary shoulders of Mrs. Ellen Addy, widow of William T. Addy, yesterday afternoon at 5:45 o'clock, her death being the result of a stroke of paralysis. Mrs. Addy was found Saturday afternoon about 3 o'clock lying prostrate on the floor and nearly perished with cold, the coal fire having gone out. Mrs. Addy was in her night dress and her hands were covered with coal dust, she evidently having been engaged in trying to rebuild the fire, when her strength forsook her. Help was summoned at once and the best care taken of the stricken woman, but the infirmities of old age come off conqueror. Her son Emmett was telegraphed for but before he and his wife arrived from Minneapolis she had become unconscious and she failed rapidly until the end.
Mrs. Addy was seventy-seven years of age, having been born in Brandywine, Del., Aug. 8, 1824. When a young girl she went to New York City and there she was married, coming with her husband to Janesville in 1845. They built the home at the corner of Franklin and Dodge streets, it then being the largest house in the little village. In this house Mrs. Addy lived for over fifty-six years. She had been a widow for about thirty-three years and the greater part of her later life she spent alone. Retiring in nature, she did not seek many friends and those who knew her best loved her best.
She leaves one brother, Bernard Cosgrove of New York, three sons, Robert of Oklahoma; Emmett of Minneapolis, who is now here, and Thomas of New York City. There are also six grandchildren...
Life's burden dropped from the weary shoulders of Mrs. Ellen Addy, widow of William T. Addy, yesterday afternoon at 5:45 o'clock, her death being the result of a stroke of paralysis. Mrs. Addy was found Saturday afternoon about 3 o'clock lying prostrate on the floor and nearly perished with cold, the coal fire having gone out. Mrs. Addy was in her night dress and her hands were covered with coal dust, she evidently having been engaged in trying to rebuild the fire, when her strength forsook her. Help was summoned at once and the best care taken of the stricken woman, but the infirmities of old age come off conqueror. Her son Emmett was telegraphed for but before he and his wife arrived from Minneapolis she had become unconscious and she failed rapidly until the end.
Mrs. Addy was seventy-seven years of age, having been born in Brandywine, Del., Aug. 8, 1824. When a young girl she went to New York City and there she was married, coming with her husband to Janesville in 1845. They built the home at the corner of Franklin and Dodge streets, it then being the largest house in the little village. In this house Mrs. Addy lived for over fifty-six years. She had been a widow for about thirty-three years and the greater part of her later life she spent alone. Retiring in nature, she did not seek many friends and those who knew her best loved her best.
She leaves one brother, Bernard Cosgrove of New York, three sons, Robert of Oklahoma; Emmett of Minneapolis, who is now here, and Thomas of New York City. There are also six grandchildren...
from the Janesville Daily Gazette 23 December, 1901:
Life's burden dropped from the weary shoulders of Mrs. Ellen Addy, widow of William T. Addy, yesterday afternoon at 5:45 o'clock, her death being the result of a stroke of paralysis. Mrs. Addy was found Saturday afternoon about 3 o'clock lying prostrate on the floor and nearly perished with cold, the coal fire having gone out. Mrs. Addy was in her night dress and her hands were covered with coal dust, she evidently having been engaged in trying to rebuild the fire, when her strength forsook her. Help was summoned at once and the best care taken of the stricken woman, but the infirmities of old age come off conqueror. Her son Emmett was telegraphed for but before he and his wife arrived from Minneapolis she had become unconscious and she failed rapidly until the end.
Mrs. Addy was seventy-seven years of age, having been born in Brandywine, Del., Aug. 8, 1824. When a young girl she went to New York City and there she was married, coming with her husband to Janesville in 1845. They built the home at the corner of Franklin and Dodge streets, it then being the largest house in the little village. In this house Mrs. Addy lived for over fifty-six years. She had been a widow for about thirty-three years and the greater part of her later life she spent alone. Retiring in nature, she did not seek many friends and those who knew her best loved her best.
She leaves one brother, Bernard Cosgrove of New York, three sons, Robert of Oklahoma; Emmett of Minneapolis, who is now here, and Thomas of New York City. There are also six grandchildren...
Life's burden dropped from the weary shoulders of Mrs. Ellen Addy, widow of William T. Addy, yesterday afternoon at 5:45 o'clock, her death being the result of a stroke of paralysis. Mrs. Addy was found Saturday afternoon about 3 o'clock lying prostrate on the floor and nearly perished with cold, the coal fire having gone out. Mrs. Addy was in her night dress and her hands were covered with coal dust, she evidently having been engaged in trying to rebuild the fire, when her strength forsook her. Help was summoned at once and the best care taken of the stricken woman, but the infirmities of old age come off conqueror. Her son Emmett was telegraphed for but before he and his wife arrived from Minneapolis she had become unconscious and she failed rapidly until the end.
Mrs. Addy was seventy-seven years of age, having been born in Brandywine, Del., Aug. 8, 1824. When a young girl she went to New York City and there she was married, coming with her husband to Janesville in 1845. They built the home at the corner of Franklin and Dodge streets, it then being the largest house in the little village. In this house Mrs. Addy lived for over fifty-six years. She had been a widow for about thirty-three years and the greater part of her later life she spent alone. Retiring in nature, she did not seek many friends and those who knew her best loved her best.
She leaves one brother, Bernard Cosgrove of New York, three sons, Robert of Oklahoma; Emmett of Minneapolis, who is now here, and Thomas of New York City. There are also six grandchildren...
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