OBITUARY: Menomonee Falls News Jan. 4, 1929 "Lemyra Jane Dent, Widow of the late James s. Dent, passes on. Born in New York State Lived Here 81 Years. New Year's Day marked the passing of one of the very oldest women in this community, not only in years, but by reason of a lifelong residence here. Mrs. Lemrya Jane Dent was a girl 1 years old when her parents, Mr. And Mrs. John and Elizabeth Morse Oliver of Clarkson, near Rochester, N. Y., decided to try their fortune in the then far west. They came by the Erie canal to Buffalo, and then by sailing vessel on the Great Lakes to Milwaukee, landing at a tamarack wharf, where the Milwaukee river emptied into the late.
With ox teams they tracked westward to the town of Granville. Mrs. Dent passed a most eventful life, her span of years having covered the period from the tallow dip in the log cabin of the pioneer settlers, through to the ox team, the auto and the airplanes, and the kerosene lamp, the candle wick and then electricity. She was a most companionable woman, very anxious to make her family happy. She was married Feb. 5, 1863, to James S. Dent. Seven children were born to them and there are surviving three sons, Andrew of Waco, Tex.; Willis, on the homestead, and Elmer at Waukesha. Also two brothers, William Oliver of Granada, Minn.; John Oliver of Minneapolis, and one sister, Mrs. Edna Brown of Templeton. Also two grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Her family came from a line of the Sons of the Revolution. She was eligible as a D. A. R. Her grandfather was a soldier in the Washington army. She has had relatives in the service in all the wars down to the World War, when her son Elmer was overseas.
The last rites will be observed today at the Schmidt Funeral Home. Interment will be at the family lot at Sunnyside cemetery."
With ox teams they tracked westward to the town of Granville. Mrs. Dent passed a most eventful life, her span of years having covered the period from the tallow dip in the log cabin of the pioneer settlers, through to the ox team, the auto and the airplanes, and the kerosene lamp, the candle wick and then electricity. She was a most companionable woman, very anxious to make her family happy. She was married Feb. 5, 1863, to James S. Dent. Seven children were born to them and there are surviving three sons, Andrew of Waco, Tex.; Willis, on the homestead, and Elmer at Waukesha. Also two brothers, William Oliver of Granada, Minn.; John Oliver of Minneapolis, and one sister, Mrs. Edna Brown of Templeton. Also two grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Her family came from a line of the Sons of the Revolution. She was eligible as a D. A. R. Her grandfather was a soldier in the Washington army. She has had relatives in the service in all the wars down to the World War, when her son Elmer was overseas.
The last rites will be observed today at the Schmidt Funeral Home. Interment will be at the family lot at Sunnyside cemetery."
OBITUARY: Menomonee Falls News Jan. 4, 1929 "Lemyra Jane Dent, Widow of the late James s. Dent, passes on. Born in New York State Lived Here 81 Years. New Year's Day marked the passing of one of the very oldest women in this community, not only in years, but by reason of a lifelong residence here. Mrs. Lemrya Jane Dent was a girl 1 years old when her parents, Mr. And Mrs. John and Elizabeth Morse Oliver of Clarkson, near Rochester, N. Y., decided to try their fortune in the then far west. They came by the Erie canal to Buffalo, and then by sailing vessel on the Great Lakes to Milwaukee, landing at a tamarack wharf, where the Milwaukee river emptied into the late.
With ox teams they tracked westward to the town of Granville. Mrs. Dent passed a most eventful life, her span of years having covered the period from the tallow dip in the log cabin of the pioneer settlers, through to the ox team, the auto and the airplanes, and the kerosene lamp, the candle wick and then electricity. She was a most companionable woman, very anxious to make her family happy. She was married Feb. 5, 1863, to James S. Dent. Seven children were born to them and there are surviving three sons, Andrew of Waco, Tex.; Willis, on the homestead, and Elmer at Waukesha. Also two brothers, William Oliver of Granada, Minn.; John Oliver of Minneapolis, and one sister, Mrs. Edna Brown of Templeton. Also two grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Her family came from a line of the Sons of the Revolution. She was eligible as a D. A. R. Her grandfather was a soldier in the Washington army. She has had relatives in the service in all the wars down to the World War, when her son Elmer was overseas.
The last rites will be observed today at the Schmidt Funeral Home. Interment will be at the family lot at Sunnyside cemetery."
With ox teams they tracked westward to the town of Granville. Mrs. Dent passed a most eventful life, her span of years having covered the period from the tallow dip in the log cabin of the pioneer settlers, through to the ox team, the auto and the airplanes, and the kerosene lamp, the candle wick and then electricity. She was a most companionable woman, very anxious to make her family happy. She was married Feb. 5, 1863, to James S. Dent. Seven children were born to them and there are surviving three sons, Andrew of Waco, Tex.; Willis, on the homestead, and Elmer at Waukesha. Also two brothers, William Oliver of Granada, Minn.; John Oliver of Minneapolis, and one sister, Mrs. Edna Brown of Templeton. Also two grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Her family came from a line of the Sons of the Revolution. She was eligible as a D. A. R. Her grandfather was a soldier in the Washington army. She has had relatives in the service in all the wars down to the World War, when her son Elmer was overseas.
The last rites will be observed today at the Schmidt Funeral Home. Interment will be at the family lot at Sunnyside cemetery."
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