ALICE KILLEN

Died at the home of her brother, in Manitowoc, on the 15th inst., Mrs. Alice
Killen, wife of John Killen, aged 53 years.
Mrs. Killen came to Manitowoc county from her home in Essex county N.Y., in
the spring of 1854, and taught school until October 1856, when she was married
at Gibson in this county and commenced her married life on a new farm in the
woods, in the town where she was married, where afterward three children were
born to her, two sons and a daughter, all of whom are grown up and engaged in
active life and are well a favorable known in the community.
When the war broke out, like many other young women, she gave up her loving
husband to her country, and during his absence in the army she struggled along
with her little ones as best she could, and no mother ever performed her whole
duty to children and husband with more fidelity and carefulness than she. At
the close of the war her husband returned to her, broken in health and unable
to work on his farm, which he sold and commenced the mercantile business at Cato,
in this county.
On Thursday last Mrs. Killen left her home in apparent good health, in company
with her invalid sister, Mrs. Nelson Darling, to visit their aged mother, Mrs.
N.B. Markham, at the home of their brother, J.D. Markham, in Manitowoc, where
they arrived at 5 o'clock p.m. and had a pleasant visit with the family and
retired in good spirits. At six o'clock the next morning Mrs. Darling noticed
that she was breathing heavily and called in the family to her bed side; a
physician was promptly on the spot but she breathed her last before he arrived.
The doctor pronounced the disease apoplexy. She was buried at Cato on Sunday last,
and no more grief stricken and sorrowing family ever followed the last remains of
a loving mother and devoted wife to her last resting place, than was hers.
The attendance of sorrowing friends and neighbors at the funeral was unusually
large, and her usefulness and kindness will be greatly missed by all her acquaintances.
Her husband and family have the heartfelt sympathy of all who know them.
Manitowoc Pilot Thursday, September 21, 1882
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Death notice in Der Nord Westen, 21 Sept. 1882
Mrs. Alice Killen from Cato died while visiting her brother,
Mr. Markham.
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[bur. 12-7-1928/cause: apoplexy/removed from Cato, WI/bur. on W.W. Killen lot]