Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-09-21
MRS. EVAN A. EVANS DEAD.

At the family home, corner OIL Sew
enth avenue and Oak street, after
serious illness of more than three
months duration, died Mrs. Mary
Rountree Evans, wife of Justice Evan
A. Evans The sad ending of that
helpful, useful life was not unexpected
as a consultation Of physicians on
Saturday night, in which DR.. Evans
of the University medical faculty
participated, had warned the family
that the condition of the patient was
most desperate.
Mary NJ. Rountree was born at
Platteville on June 8, 1876, the daugh-
ter Of the late Samuel Rountree and
Sophia Aspinwall Rountree. The
Rountrees were among the earliest
settlers in the Platteville section, and
in that city the subject Of this sketch
was born, in the old family home, one
of the rare old homes in southwestern
Wisconsin. The mother, Sophia Aspin-
wall, charming woman, was a native
| of Vermont. In this Old home, his
| toric in the southern part of the state,
| Mary Rountree grew to wOmanhOod.
! In her home town she attended and
was graduated from the Platteville
! Normal; later on she was graduated
from the Wisconsin University in the
| same class as her husband. Then she
| taught, first in Lodi, then in Neenah,
and last in BarabOo, where her term
| of service was for two years. And a
model teacher was Mary Rountree, as
hundreds of pupils of those days will
quickly testify on reading OF her I'M
| timely death.
On September II, 1902, Mary Roun-
! tree was married to Evan A. Evans,
then rising young lawyer of this
city. For a time they lived on Fifth
avenue. then went to the house that
! has since been their home. To them
| four sons were born: Evan A, John
r., Orrin B., and George A. John a
most delightful baby, passed on while
only IA months old; the other three
| boys survive to mourn with the hus-
band and father the too early death
of a model mother and wife. Two
sisters, Miss Laura Rountree, in the
old home at Platteville, and Mrs. Isaac
Ferris, Waterloo, Iowa, another sister
died six years ago. But these are
not the only stricken ones. Seldom
has a wife been so fondly cherished
in the family of her husband as was
| Mary Rountree Evans. In the sterl-
! lHS ldmlIy OL inc ENduSSS, hoIy 1COuIl-
tree was beloved and almost adOred
While Mrs. Evans was widely known
and highly esteemed in large circle
of friends, both in her early home city
and in Baraboo, it was in her home
that her heart centered. The exact
ing duties of wifehood and mother
hood were her greatest delights. And
yet for all her devotion she found
time to give cultural pursuits and
social matters. In all her contact
with the world in which she lived,
Mrs. Evans had the happy faculty, be-
cause her heart and mind were right
and genuine of welding friendships.
| Seldom is one more beloved in a
community than was Mrs. Evans in
BarabOO. The whole city is today in
deepest grief.
Funeral services will be said in
Trinity Episcopal church. Mrs.
Evans church home, on Wednesday
afternoon at 2:30 the Rev. r. M.
Laurenson officiating. All that is
mortal will be consigned to Mother
Earth in Baraboo cemetery, by the
side of the grave of Baby JOHNNY. S.
| Pease in BarabOo Republic.