Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-01-31
Obituary Mrs. Betsy Lord.

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Betsy Diana Tyler was born at
Stockton, Chautauqua County, N, Y
July 9th, 1926, and died at her home,
in Bloomington, Wis, Jan. %, 1912,
aged IS years.
She spent her girlhood days at and
near Fredonia, n. Y, where she re-
celved the rudiments of an education
and laid the foundation for that
higher education upon which she has
been building for more than three
quarters cf a century. She was mar
ried to the late Horace J. Lord when
she was 20 years old. and they lived
happily together for ga years, the
tie being broken by Mr. Lord s death
two years ago.
Immediately after their marriage. in
company with Mr.. Lords parents and
brothers Henry and Homer, they set
out with teams for the then far west
After weeks of toilsome travel they
reached Grant County and soon were
located on Blakes Prairie, where they
built their home and where their
children were born. aud the two
daughters, Mrs J. E. Connell and
Mrs @. W. Stone, grew to woman
hood, and here little Milton, after
pouring sunshine on their hearts for
two short summers, passed to the
Great Beyond.
Mrs. Lord was a very intellectual
woman. always taking deep interest
in educational and literary affairs
Before the war. while she lived in
their little log house and kept
Bunker Hill Postofice, she was
instrumental in organizing the Ladies
Literary Society, society which has
never since been equaled by anything
of the kind in West Grant Religious
~, she was strongly i'll sympathy
with the Universalist church, but
never having lived where there was an
organization Of that society she never
became a member of any church.
She was, however, warm friend of
all Christian churches, and very
seldom missed an opportunity to at
tend their meetings and contribute to
their support She was very pro
nounced in all her views Before the
war she was q strong abolitionlst
during the war a unionist, and an
admiIer almost a worshiper-o Of Lin
COln and a supporter of Grant. She i
always was strongly in favor Of I
woman suffage, an uncompromising
prohibiti1nist and faithful w. G.
I. y. worker Frances E. Willard
and Lady Henry Somerset were her
ideal women, and she loved them as
she idealiz8d LIncoln and Neal Dow
Of her immediate family, Mrs
Lord leaves to mourn her death two
heretofore meu toned,
threa grandchildren. Mrs. A. Fl.
5chreiner, Mrs. J. B. Ludden. and
Milton J Connell; nine great-grand-
children Miss Mildred Schreiner,
Harley Ora and Ishmael sons of G.
Fl. PohIe and deceased wife Roxie,
and the five children Of Mr. and Mrs.
j. B Ludden.
The children of Bloomington will
her as Grandma Lord.
There are those now grown to man
hood and womanhood who will recall
with pleasure her genial smile and
the good times she helped to make
for them. She was happy in visiting
the sick and in bestowing charity |
where there was need. "A good and
noble woman has passed from our
midst but the heritage of her beauti-
full life and character remain with
US, III
Like the vase. in which roses have once
been distilled
You may break you may shatter the vase |
if you viii.
ut the scent of the roses will h ang round it |
still"
The funeral services were held at
the Congregational church Thurs
day afternoon, Jan. 25, being con-
Quoted by Rev "A. 7. Lacey, as
sisted by Rev. J. W. Taylor. In
terment was made by the side of her
husband in Union cemetery, in sight
of the old farm which had been their
home in former years. ~