Obituary: Adams County, Wisconsin: Clinton HAMMOND

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Adams County Press, August 27, 1898 Page 1 Column 5

AN EARLY SETTLER OF ADAMS COUNTY PASSES AWAY Aug. 12, M. F. HAMMOND
received a telegram saying his brother Clinton, who resided in Iowa, could
not live. M. F. and his brother, Daniel, took the evening train from
necedah and arrived at their destination the following evening to find that
their brother was buried that afternoon, the 13th.

He was taken one week before with inflammation of the bowels, and although
he had the best medical skill and kindest care nothing could arrest the
disease and he passed away Friday morning.

Clinton was fifty years old, the youngest of a family of eight, four boys
and four girls, and was always considered very healthy. He had a happy,
cheerful disposition which won him friends wherever he went.

His father, Jonathon HAMMOND, came from New York and settled in Adams
county, Wisconsin, in 1851. About 23 years ago Clinton went to Chicasaw,
Iowa, later was married to Alice FEENA. Besides his widow, he leaves a
family of four children, one girl, eighteen, married, and three boys, the
oldest twelve, the youngest, four.

Although his family and friends miss him and mourn for him deeply, they are
comforted by his dying words of faith and hope. He said to his wife a few
hours before his death, "Alice, I shall be in Heaven to-day." And later he
said, "I shall partake of the Lord's supper to-night in Heaven." He grieved
to leave his family, otherwise he was ready and willing to go. He has been
a church member for several years.