Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-05-21
Former Resident
Dies in the East
Burial at Madison
(From Tuesdays Daily


Baraboo relatives have received
notice Of the death Of Miss Sar-
an Stewart, at Avon by the Sea.
New Jersey resident of BaraboG
many years ago She was aged Sc
years and burial was made at Mad
ison this afternoon.
She was Il granddaughter of Mr..
and Mrs Lemuel Stewart, and one
Of their nine children was Isaac,
the father of the deceased. Among
the other sons and daughters OF
Lcmuel were Prudy, Clara, Nancy
Samantha, Elvira and Cynthia.
The sons and daughters of Isaac
stewart were Harriet, Asa, Alva,
Glvira, Orlando, Norman, Arson,
Lyman, Frank, Mary, Sarah, and
Clarke.
Alva was we'll known Judge at
Madison Norman was sheriff of
Sank county at one time, Frank
was clerk Of the United States
court at Madison, and Lyman went
west and is supposed to have been
killed by the Indians. His rela-
tives never heard from him after he
left as 4 forty-niner. Mary mar
ried Seth I. McGilvra and their
home was on Eighth street, near
the fair grounds. Mrs. Jorge Car
ow, Ladysmith, is a daughter OF
MIR. and Mrs. McGilvra Miss Ste
wart was the last of the family to
go.
Miss Stewart was greatly inter
ested in education, in fact her life
was devoted to this work. Many
wears ago she was a teacher in Miss
Mortimer's school in Baraboo, this
being located on the ground now
occupied by the Episcopal church.
Il. Pfannstiehl is one of the few
remaining pupils of that school.
After leaving BarabCo Miss Ste
wart graduated at Mount Holyoke,
Massachusetts,, taught in Milwau.
kee. later in Philadelphia, and was
sent from that city in charge OF
IN educational exhibit at the
Worlds fair, Chicago. She advo-
Gated some Of the methods which
are being used in school work at
the present time.
MI. and Mrs. J. J. Pfannstiehl,
Mr.. and Mrs Charles II. Stewart,
ana Mrs. f. M, Stewart went to
Madison this afternoon to be pres
ent at the last rites. Others rela-
tives were also there.
The Last Rites
{From Wednesdays Daily
On her desk in the home at
Avon by these New Jersey,
where she died last Saturday, Miss
Sarah A. Stewart had left three
type written sentiments by Victor
Hugo, and they were read at her
grave in Forest Hill cemetery,
Madison, Tuesday:
Il feel in myself the future life.
ann like a forest which has been
more than once cut down. The new
shoots are stronger and livlier than
ever. | am rising, | know, toward
the sky. The sunshine is on my
head. The earth gives me its gem
erous sap, hut heaven lights me
with the reflection of unknown
worlds. You say the soul is moth
ing but the resultant of bodily
powers. Why then is my soul the
more luminous when my bodily pow
ers begin to fail? Winter is OH
my head and eternal spring is lis
my heart
"Then | breathe at this hour the
fragrance OF, the lilacs, the violets
and the roses, as at twenty years.
The nearer | approach the end, the
palmer | hear around me the i'm
mortal Symphonies Of the worlds
which invite me- It is marvellous,
yet simple. 1t is fairy tale and
it is history For half century
have been writing my thoughts in
rrose, verse. history, philosophy,
drama, romance, tradition. satire,
ode, songI have tried all. But
| feel that | have. not said the
thousandth part Of what is in me.
When I go down to the grave
can say like so many others. I
have finished my days work. but