The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-09-28
AN EARLY SETTLER
Mrs. Charlotte Bacon Died at Her
Home On Park Avenue On
Sunday Evening.
CAME TO KENosHA IN 1886

During Her Sixty three Years as RESI-
dent of This County She Took an I'M
portant Part in the Development of
Early Kenosha-A Woman of Great Pa
tr1otism she Rendered Great Service
the Country During the War.
Shortly after O'Clock Sunday even
ing occurred the death of Charlotte
Bacon, widow of the late Hiram Bacon,
who for many years has held the proud
distinction of being the Oldest living
representative of the early pioneers OF
Kenosha county. Over sixty-three
years ago Mrs. Bacon came to this
county with her husband and since
that time her life has heen so closely
connected with the development OF
early Kenosha that her death is a mat
ter of more than usual historic inter
est. For many years she has not lived
an active life, but in the retirement OF
her home she has found a sweet pleas
ure in telling to the rising generation
the story of the struggles and victories
of the early settlers of old Southport.
While she has been blind for nearly
twenty-five years, her interest III life
has been a most active one and UP to
the end she was in possession OF all the
qualities which made her one of the
most enter a1Ling women OF the city
Her stories of the early days, If they
could be published, would make vol
ume of commanding interest to all the
State. She came to Kenosha county
when it was an rntrodden wilderness
and lived to see it rejoice and blossom
like the rose. Mrs. BacOaa was wor11-
an of great patriotic spirit. Her life
was given to her country as well as
were the lives of her two sons. In the
civil war she did valiant service for
the country on the field of battle as an
army nurse, and since the war she has
taken great interest in all patriotic
movements. For several years she
had been a sufferer from consumption
and during the last rev weeks she had
been growing constantly weaker. On
Sunday evening" while surrounded by
the entire family, she called them to
her bedside and the sight which had
been lost so long ago returned to 1ler
and once more she was permitted to
loved. But with the return of sight
came death and a half hour later she
fell in1io "a sleep which knows no
waking.
Charlotte Bacon, the daughter of
John and Elizabeth Dean, was born
near .Skaneate1ass Onndaga County,
New York, Feb. 5, 1914.
/ La early life she was a school teacher,
| teaching in the schools of her native
county until her marriage to Hiram
Bacon, Oct. 20, 1888.
Her husband came TO Kenosha
County, Wisconsin, in 1885, taking up
farm in the town of Pleasant Prairie,
Kenosha County, where she Joined him
June g, 1886. They lived on this farm
until March, 1852, when they removed
to the farm in the town OF Soners,
where they 16ved until October, 1883,
when, with their sons. they moved to
Red Willow County, Nebraska, where
the husband died July A, 1885.
Ia April, 1893, with her sou, M, H.
she has made her home upto her death.
She comes of revolutionary stock,
her father being in the American army
during that war, and also in the svar of
1872.
She was the youngest Of a family of
nine children, ali of whom Lived to a
ripe old age except her twiu brother.
She was very patriotic woman, and
during the war of the Rebellion she
1abored with and for the Sanitary
Commission, collecting and forward
ing to the the soldiers in the hospitals
many boxes and packages for their
comfort.
Her second son, C. D. Bacon, being
"a member of the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry
was taken i'll while the regiment was
at Cape Girardeau. Mo. She went to
the hospital aHd cared for him and
some of his companions until they
were able to be brought home, when
she brought six of them with her, car
ing for them and seeing them all safely
home
Of her three children who grew to
maturity, HSA Two SOILS, LIZ W anu M H.,
survive her, and were with her with
their families at the time of her death.
Her three sons were all in the army
during the war of the rebellion, L. C.
and c. D. being members of the 1st
Wisconsin Cavalry, and M. H. with the
5th Wisconsin Infantry.
She was one of the first members of
the Baptist church of this city, and
during her life was a consistent chris
tan, and when called was ready to go;
saying to those around her but short
time before she died, that she felt that
it was we'll with her-she had no fears,
Father held her carefully and easily.