Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-11
MRS. PLANkINTON DIES
SUCCUMBS MONDAY NIGHT TO
BRIGHT'S DISEASE.
Was Widow of the Late William Plank
inton-Funeral Services on Wednes-
day Afternoon.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Sept. s, 1905
Mrs. Ella Woods Plankinton, widow
of the late William Plankinton, and
mother of, William Woods Plankinton,
died at S o'clock Monday evening at her
residence, 800 Terrace place, aged "a
years. Death was caused by Bright S
disease, accompanied by complications.
Mrs. Plankinton suffered a mild at
tack of the trouble while in New York
last December, and was there attend ed
by Dr. Edmund L. Dow, a specialist of
that city. For the last two months she
has been under a doctors care. After
an attack about three weeks ago she
was able to go out and twice enjoyed a
motor car ride during the last week in
August. Her final acute illaess began
week ago last Saturday, since which
time she had been continually under the
attendance Of physicians and nurses, her
son and his wife being constantly with
her. DR.. Dow was summoned for con-
SultatIon with the attending physician,
DR.. IL. ID. Sykes: He left Monday aft
ern0on for New York giving no hope of
Mrs. Plankinton'S recovery
There were with her when she died
MI. and Mrs. William Woods PIankin-
ton, brother, Ii. L. Woods of Cincin-
ii'tti, anu -fIlSS L dIHlbDellp CiudfI, SIS
ter of Mrs. William Woods. PIankinton
Mrs. Plankinton, who before her mar
rage was Miss Ella Woods of Cincin-
natl, was married to William PlankintOn
IN 1876. They went to Philadelphia for
their honeymoon, attending the Centen-
NAL, and after that went abroad for six
months. Their palatial home on the cor
ner of Grand avenue and Sixteenth street
was the joint wedding gift of her father,
Mr.. Woods of Cincinnati, who contribut-
ed the residence, and of the late John
Plankinton, who donated the ground.
Later, however, the family moved to the
John PlankintOn residence at the corner
Of Grand avenue and Fifteenth street.
Very recently Mrs. Plankinton took the
house at 00J Terrace place, her sons
family occupying the residence of Mr..
and Mrs. w. ID. Sawyer 400 Terrace
avenue, during the absence of the Saw
yerS in Europe.
Mrs. PlankntOn was a woman of quiet
tastes and spent the later years of her
life in comparative retirement. She was
kindly and generous, doing philanthrOpic
and charitable work in a quiet and unOs-
tentatiOuS manner. She was vice presi-
dent of the Maternity hospital and a
member of the house committee, and was
nlso interested in the Protestant orphan
asylum.
During the biennial convention of the
General Federation of Women's clubs in
Milwaukee in 1900 Mrs Plankinton was
vice president Of the biennial local board.
She was member of the WOman's club
and of the Athenaeum association.
The funeral will be held on Wednesday
afternoon at o'clock. from the family
residence, 1905 Grand avenue Inter
ment will be private and friends are re-
quested to omit flowers.
Mrs. Plankinton is survived by her
son and by three brothers and two sis
tiers, Harry F. Woods and John S.
Woods of Cincinnati, William II. Woods
of New York, and Mrs Wilmot Hall
and Mrs. Sarah G. Wilson, both of Gin
cinnati. With the exception of Mrs.
Hall and William II. Woods, who are
unable to come, these relatives will come
to Milwaukee for the funeral