Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-04-30
Death OF Mrs. 0. L. Boynton, Of Washburn
Wisconsin


Mrs. o. L. Boynton. who died at
Washburn, in this state. April %,
1908, of smallpox was the daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Briggs. The de-
ceased was born November 3. 1869. at
Briggville. Marquette county, Wis.
While young the family moved to
Grand Rapids where she received her
education, graduating from the Howe
High school in the class of 1886, and
for several years taught in the public
schools of Wood county. She was
married 20 o. L. Boynton, of Pittsville.
October s, 1891. There was born to
them son, now in his eleventh wear
and daughter now in her ninth wear.
Her mother Mrs. Briggs. and sister
| Mrs. Knox are Lying and share with
husband and children their bereav-
| ment. The family remained at Pitts
vile for several years and then moved
to the northern part of the state.
Prior to her marriage she taught
for three years in the public schools in
Pittsville aDd will be kindly remem-
bered by the young people for her
thorough methods of instructions and
the SOlicitude she manifested in the
progress they were making in their
| studies. After her marriage, unlike
many others, she did not feel that her
mission in life was fulfilled and as
| she grew.in years her views in regard to
her duties became broadened and was
ready to join with others in the various
| agencies that were being employed
| for the betterment and welfare of the
young people of the community in
| which she lived.
At Pittsville she will be gratefully
| remembered ny the church going
people for her efficient labor in behalf
| of the Sunday schools and other
| kindred interests. At Ashland where
the family resided for a time, the
pastor of one of the churches organized
boys club and she loyal and true to
| her inherent impulses accepted the
| position OF assistant to the pastor in
formulating programmes and in con-
Quoting the class exercises, winning
| the love and respect Of the children
and the gratitude of the parents, Size
| was not member of any of the
orthodox churches, nevertheless the
interest she manifested in Sabbath
schools and other kindred measures,
auxiliary to the churches, showed that
she was believer in the Fundamental
essentials of Christianity. A Christ
ianity pure and interrupted or dis
torted by blgotry intolerance and
SeCtarianiSm.
Where ever she lived she was
| accredited as being type of noble
womanhood and by her winning per-
sOnality she gathered around her a
large circle of friends that will grieve
at her early departure and the re.
membrance of her nobility of character
will prove lasting and highly
cherished heritage.
Endowed by nature with a strong
personality and keenly imbued with a
sense of her obligations to her family,
the deceased did not allow the claims
OF society or the entertainment OF
friends to interfere with her duties to
her husband and children, but with an
affiuence of affection and devotion she
did all mother could do to make her
| home what a home should be. A
| place with fixed boundaries that
society cannot encrouch upon. Where
grows day by day the sentiment OF
tilial love and the joy of welded bliss
| The earliest and most influential
school, where plastic nature receives
it's first impressions, where the
dearest ties of earth have bound us
in a family circle. Home, Oh how
inexpressibly sad and hheIy without
wife and mother, Time may assuage
| the poignancy Of grief for the departed,
but many years must elapSe ere time
| will efface the remembrance of her
queenly department in the charms Of
| her personality.