The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-10-27
Mrs. Ralph E. Sutherland
Dies at Her Home on
Sheridan Road.
WAS WIDELY KNOWN
Stricken with Heart Attack
JustNAfter Midnight She
Dies Early Today.

Mrs. Mary E. Fead Sutherland, aged
90 years, one Of the best known of
the pioneers Of Kenosha county and
the widow of the late Ralph E. Suther-
land, fo~ many years prominent in the
business life of the city, died suddenly
at her home 221 Sheridan Road, at half
past one o'clock this morning. Death
came as a result Of an attack of heart
dlsease. Mrs. Sutherland had been in
Feeble health for month but on Fri
day evening she was able to have din
ner with the members of the family.
She was stricken just after midnight
and death came short time later.
The announcement of her death will
come as a sorrow in many homes of the
older residents of the city as few wo-
men were more widely known in Ke-
nosha city and county.
Native of New York.
MRS. Sutherland had been a resi-
dent Of Kenosha for more than seven
ty years, and for much of this time
she had been very active on women's
work IN the community. She was a
daughter of Ralph and Eliza Head of
distinguished revolutionary lineage,
and she was born at Paris Hill, New
York, August 20, 1885. She came to
Kenosha when she was fifteen years
OF age and Joined her brother, the
late George D. Head. She was one
OF the first students of the Kenosha
Free School and throughout her life
she had taken an intense interest in
the development of the schools of the
city. She was one of the first students
OF the late Col. John j. McMynn, fam
Gus in the school history of Kenosha
and he took her from the class room
and made her teacher For a num-
Der of years she taught in the pioneer
schools of the city.
Married in 1865
On April 18, 1866 occurred the mar
riage of Mr.. and Mrs. Sutherland, the
ceremony being performed by the Rev.
Hugh Miller Thompson, who afterward
became bishop in the Episcopal
church. The Sutherland home was
known for over fifty years as one of
the most hospitable homes in Kenosha
The keen interest which Mr.. and Mrs.
Sutherland took in the events of the
day made their home most attractive
to old and young. Mrs. Sutherland for
years was one of the most active mem
bers of st. Matthews parish but in re-
cent years infrmities had made it i'm
possible for her to take an active in
terest in the work of the church. Since
the death of Mr.. Sutherland in 1916
Mrs. Sutherland had lived a more re-
tired life, but up to short time ago
she had lost none of her interest in
Kenosha and it's life.
Gave Son for World Freedom.
A great sorrow came to Mrs. Suther-
land in the last years of her life Her
only son, the late Lieutenant George
R. Sutherland, was one of the first of
the Kenosha men to offer himself for
training for the world war. He was
early sent to France and he was killed
in action on the first day of the ad-
vance of the American troops in the
Argonne forest. Mrs. Sutherland bore
the loss of her only son with patriotic
fortitude.
While eligible to all of the great pa
triotic organizations on account of a
long, lineage of revolutionary heroes,
she never. claimed membership in any
of these organizations.
Mrs. Harry Skinkle, the surviving
daughter, is the last member of the
family Funeral services will be held
at the late residence at half past three
o'clock Monday afternoon. They will
be in charge of Very Reverend Charles
E. Mccoy, rector of St. Matthew'S
church. Interment will be at the fam
lily plot at Green Ridge