Obit: Pickering, Hannah (1848 – 1917)
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Surnames: PICKERING SPARKS WILSON STOCKWELL WATTS HULL

Source: CLARK COUNTY REPUBLICAN & PRESS (Neillsville, Wis.) 01/11/1917

Pickering, Hannah (18 MAY 1848 – 1 JAN 1917)

Just at the dawn of a new day in the birth of the new year, on Monday, Jan. 1, 1917, the soul of Mrs. Byron Pickering left its earthly tenement at her home in Crane, Mont., and passed on and into that higher life beyond.

Deceased was born Hannah Sparks in Youngsville, Sullivan Co., N.Y., on May 18th, w848. She was there married to Byron Pickering Sept. 28, 1866. They came to Clark County, Wis. very soon after that and settled in the town of Sherwood, where all but their oldest daughter was born. She is survived by her husband, eight children and nineteen grandchildren. Her children are Edith, Mrs. M.J. Wilson of Minneapolis, Minn.; Helen, Mrs. C.D. Stockwell of Spooner, Wis.; David of Sheldon, Wis.; Sylvia, Mrs. E. Watts of Fairview, Mont.; and Myron, Earl, Allen and Jessie, Mrs. Earl Hull of Crane, Mont. The children with the exception of Earl are all married and in good homes of their own.

The family left Clark County about ten years ago and took up residence at Crane. Deceased came to her death as the result of the second stroke of paralysis she suffered last October. The majority of her children were with her in her last hours and all were home together at the celebration of their parents’ golden wedding at Crane, Montana in September.

In her youthful days she early sought a Christian life by affiliation with the Methodist church and has ever since been a true, loving, charitable Christian woman. To know Mrs. Pickering was to admire her for she had had those traits of character, which always command respect. She was of sympathetic nature, and no person in trouble ever went to her and was turned away. Her steadfast adherence to the highest ideals made her life an example and her memory as a fragrant blossom to be cherished by her friends and remembered with consoling thoughts by those to whom she was bound by family ties. With her there were no mysteries of life, for her abiding faith in the promise of a life beyond the grave have ever been unshaken and were so until the end. (Granton News)