Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-12-04
MRS. S. |. SHELDON
CALLED BY DEATH
FALLS ILL WITH GASTRIC TRou.
BILE IN kENosHA.
END is MOST UNEXPECTED
Widely Travelled and One OF the
Most Cultured Women Of the Com
monwealth--Her Daughter Pre-
eeptress Of a Girls School in
Florence, Italy.
Madlson Nnv. 27.

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The many Madison friends OF Mrs.
Anna X. Sheldon, wife OF Shepard l..
Sheldon. 10 Langdon street, were
painfully surprised yesterday after.
noon to learn OF the death OF that es-
Unable and cultured woman. She
had been in Kenosha for about three
weeks, guest of Miss Margarcs
Newell, at the old Edward Bain
homestead, and fell III there with an
acute attack of gastric trouble. Fol
some two weeks she had been under
the care of trained nurse, yet those
at home or yet those at the bedside
felt no special apprehension of I'M
toward consequences, although the
knowledge that the patient was UNI
able to take but the scantlest meas.
ure of nourishment naturally occa-
stoned some concern. IL also was
realized that she had been complain.
ing for some time before OF not feel
ing well. But letters, dictated by
Mrs. Sheldon to the nurse. came reg
ularly. one being received as late as
Monday. In It were the mothers
fond suggestions about getting Off a
thanksgiving remembrance TO her
son down in Mississippi. But about
noon yesterday Mr.. Sheldon was in
receipt OF telegram from Kenosha
advising that II was deemed best
that he should come at once. He
, departed on the first train, at :
o'clock. but while he was yet en- roi.tc
another message came announcing the
death and that II was sudden and due
to heart failure,
Mrs. Sheldon was about CA years
old and the daughter OF George
Clark, long a respected farmer resid
/ ing two miles out from the village OF
Oregon, She was born In New Eng
land, hut came with the family 10
| Wisconsin while yet child. The
commencement OF her schooling was
| Ia Oregon, later she attended tn
Madison high school and later fin
| lshing course in Boston. For con
siderable time she was a teacher II
/ AAG AlEA EIb0Ots anu tutl
In the old fourth ward school, fron
which position she went some Al
years ago to become the wife of 8. l.
Sheldon. Besides her husband, sh,
leaves son. Henry T. Sheldon, WHIT
is interested In numbering in Missis
sippi, and a daughter. Miss Georgian;
r., who for several years has con
Quoted most successfully school 20
girls at Florence, Italy. This daughte
spent the past summer with her pa
rents In Madison, sailing for Europe
only last September. the gath. &C
companied by q group OF American
girls most of whose numbers were x
enter her seLS5l and TO travel Incl
dentally Dnder her chaperonage. II
this enterprise Mrs. Sheldon hersei
had taken an interest most helpful
owing to her own fine experience 81
o preceptress no less than to her large
information about foreign natter
due to extensive travelling abroad
Miss Sheldon, Of course. could no
have been aware even OF the meres
fact Of Der mothers Illness.
brother If Mrs. Sheldon. Walter CLARK
ls engaged In mining near Denver
He is the last Of the family, John II
Clark. many years n prominent ioca
druggist, also was brother
Mrs. Sheldon had gone to and fror
Europe often during the past decade
possibly six or eight times in ali, an
was a close student both Of histor!
especially English. and Of art. and !
these branches she had. during th
intervals at home. given instruc.io
to Large private classes Of women
IN Madison. at Milwaukee, in Kenosh
and elsewhere, besides lecturng NJ
: infrequently. owing to these circun
stances she was known 10 an uncon
monty vide extent In Wisconsin: an
among the matrons OF the common
wealth none was f6ore highly "a
teemed for her intellectual attain
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