The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-10-12
MARRIED A kENOSHA WOMAN
Wife of Former Missouri Senator Was
Sophia Bullene, Sister of One of the
Founders of Southport and Keno
shar-Mrs. Lathrop Bullene Dead.
(Bz f. Fl. Lymanl

The remains of William Warner,
former United States senator from
Missouri, were laid at rest at Kansas
City. on Sunday afternoon. The death
of Senator Warner was of especial
interest in Kenosha. He married a
Kenosha county woman and among the
veterans of the Civil War here he. was
widely known and admired.
The deceased was adjutant of the
SD Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry,
Companies Fl and I of which regiments
were made up of Kenosha county boys.
After the war veterans of the SD Wis
consin frequently mentioned Major
Warner with respect and affection.
The favorite war story of the late Com
rade George Hale related to the hap
penings of July the 4th, 1868, before
Vicksburg. 1t was not generally known
along the line, many miles in length,
that on the Bird, after a forty-seven
days siege, General Pemberton in com
mand of 10000 Confederates, had ac-
copied General Grant g terms of Sun
conditional surrender of the be-
leuger city. Early on the morning of
the fourth, the booming Of artillery
began at the right and seemed to pro-
gress steadily along the line, At first,
it was construed as indicating that a
general assault on the enemies lines
was being inaugurated. Soon it be-
came known that, instead, victory was
being celebrated on this most moment
GUS 4th of July since that of 1776.
(0n this same Independence Day, Gen
eral Robert E. Lee s defeated army was
in full rerereat from Gettysburg)
Comrade Hale related that after the
cannonading and other manifestations
of joy over the victory had measureably
subsidized, Major Warner sprang out of
the rifle pit, mounted slight elevation
between the trenches Of the two armies,
which then were very close together,
and read the Declaration of Independ-
ence to men Of the opposing armies
who were within range of his voice.
Major Warner was Commander in
Chief of the Grand Army of the Re-
public in 1889 in which year the ma
tional encampment was held at Mil
waukee. Many Kenosha comrades re-
call his Napoleonic makeup and pose as
he reviewed the parade from the
grand stand.
For Kenosha cold timers" added in
terest surrounds the death of Senator
Warner from the fact that Mrs. War
ner was Sophia Bullene, sister of Susan,
John Jr., Lathrop, Thomas and William,
all of whom with their father, were
Southport pioneers of the thirties. AS
young child, Mrs. Warner lived in
Salem, at the west end Of Bullene IS
Bridge, then called -a-nuck- -chu-
wuc (meaning "great- bend-in-river)
until in 1843 she moved with the family
to Southport (now Kenosha.)
In 1889 Senator Warner was born in
Lafayette county and grew to man
hood in the lead regions of that sec
tion of Wisconsin territory.
He was emphatically the architect
of his own fortune.
At six years Of age ne became an
orphan. With no aid nor encourage
ment, beside an unquestable ambition
he obtained an education, read law and
was admitted to the bar.
The youth of the present day 'een-
circled with all that exalts and embel-
fishes civilized life' can little compre-
bend, even if they try, what it signi-
fed in pioneer days of Wisconsin ter
ritory ia battle for existence, with the
handicap of orphanhood and the vicis-
STUDIES of frontier life, to say nothing
of acquiring an education, under ex-
tremely adverse conditions Let us
suppose that the high and grade
schools, the continuation, manual train
ing, night and commercial schools were
blotted out of existence in Kenosha.
The resulting conditions would be no
worse than those that existed in the
lead-mining regions of Wisconsin ter
ritory. There is good reason to believe
that there are still, high-minded ambi-
tious boys who would, if necessary,
emulate the record of the deceased
senator. Regrettable as it is, there are
nevertheless too many others who
would light another cigarette and
curse the luck.
Announcement comes of the death at
Lawrence, Kansas, of Mrs. Lathrop
Bullene. On November the 3rd, 1S47.
Lathrop Bullene, aged twenty-one, and
Susan F. Reed, aged seventeen, were
married in Southport (now Kenosha)
at the home of John Bullene Jr., which
stood on North Main street on the
present site of the Allen tannery Of
fees. Mrs. james M. Stryker, now of