Adeline L Peck

MRS. ADELINE ROBINSON PECK, 93, PASSED AWAY ON MARCH 30,1933 AFTER A WEEKS ILLNESS. SHE WAS BORN IN EXETER, OTSEGO COUNTY, NEW YORK ON SEPTEMBER 1, 1839. SHE GREW TO WOMANHOOD IN THAT STATE AND ON OCTOBER 11, 1857 WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO CHARLES P. PECK. TWO CHILDREN WERE BORN TO THIS UNION, BOTH PRECEDED HER IN DEATH

MR AND MRS. PECK CAME TO WISCONSIN ABOUT 75 YEARS AGO (1858) TAKING UP RESIDENCE ON A FARM NEAR MAUSTON. THEY WERE EARLY SETTLERS IN THIS COMMYNITY. WHEN THEY FIRST CAME TO MAAUSTON THIS AREA WAS SPARSELY SETTLED AND INHABITED LARGELY BY INDIANS. BUT THEY WERE OF TRUE PIONEER STOCK AND ENDURED THE HARDSHIPS AND PRIVATIONS OF THE EARLY DAYS IN THE MANNER OF WISCONSIN PIONEERS

SHE IS SURVIVED BY ONE GRANDSON, CHARLES VAN DUSEN OF MAUSTON WITH WHOM SHE HAS MADE HER HOME FOR EIGHT YEARS, ONE GREAT GRANDSON OF MILWAUKEE AND MANY COUSINS, OTHER RELATIVES AND FRIENDS INTERMENT WAS IN EVERGREEN CEMETERY

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