Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1888-04-12
Mrs. Abrams-ObItuary.
:, DIEp,-April Z, 1883 at her home in Lancaster
MIS-; Martha NJ. wife OF Hon. Delos Abrams

DED.-April Z, 1883 at her home in Lancaster.
Mrs. Martha NJ. wife OF Hon. Delos Abrams
agedsneaFly 81 years.
The deceased was born June %. 1897.
in the state of New York, of Scotch and
German parentage. Her fathers name
was Harvey Her parents were Con-
gregationalists.
She was married to Delos Abrams on
June Is, 1854. The then young people
lived on farm in New York for near
ly two years. They moved west in the
fall of 1856, In October that year they
arrived in Wyalusing, this county, and
the same fall moved onto David Ballan-
tines place in the town of Little Grant,
where they remained four years. In
the fall of 1860 they bought farm of
K. Ballantine in Little Grant. On this
they remained for % years. and in the
spring of 1888 they moved to the farm
adjoining north of the city of Lancaster,
purchased of T. NJ. Barber, and which
is the present home of the family
Here they We're pleasantly settled,
desirably surrounded and in anticipa-
ton of many years of companionship
and comfort.
Sickness came suddenly upon them.
The contagion which has found the
way into so many families here and in
the country this winter, visited their
home. The first to be attacked by
measles was their son Harvey. He had
the patient and kind care of his mother
until the crisis of his disease was past
and on the day making the turn on his
road to recovery, she was attacked.
She was large fleshy woman. This
with her age made her subject such
as this contagion has little mercy with.
The measles failed to come to the sur
face as they should and resulted on
Tuesday in acute pneumonia and death
finished his work on Wednesday m orn-
ing at 6 o'clock.
BY this time other members of the
family were also i'll, all except Mr..
Abrams. His daughter, Mrs Danl
Needham, who is now there, was at
tackled the day after her mother Mrs.
Needham's little child was next attacked
and the daughter, Libbie Abrams next.
The last named and Libbie were very
i'll when their mother died. The hours
were filled with sorrow and suffering
The afflicted husband bereft of the com
panion who had SO far made lighter his
journey of life, was yet in grea: anxiety
for the welfare of the daughters whose
severe illness made them at times un-
conscious of their own great loss.
Mrs. Abrams was 4 member of the
Lancaster Congregational church with
which She united about three years ago.
She was a good christian woman who
fondly stroye to do good for those
around her and was devoted wife and
mother The hearts Of the bereaved
yearn in great atfliction under THEN
heavy loss. The funeral was on Thurs
day at one o'clock in the afternoon.
with preaching by Rev. Grinnell One
daughter, Mrs. Charles Alexander. OF
Carroll City, Iowa, was not present.
She had been telegraphed not to come
on account of the contagion. The SON
in-law,D Needam, had come few DAYS
before to assist in caring for the sick.
The mother of Mrs. Abrams is vet liy
ing in New York and two sisters and q
brother also survive her.
In their sickness and aflliction Mr..
Abrams says they have been greatly
assisted and consoled b Kind neighbors
and he wishes all to know that he values
their kindness and is most thankful
therefor. A FRIEND.