Lucy Maria Witter Knapp was born at Brookfield, N.Y., March 7, 1846, and died at her home in Nortonville, March 5, at 8:30 in the morning.
On May 28, 1870, she was married to Samuel J. Knapp, to which union were born two children - Marie, who died at the age of five, and Clarence, who with his wife, was present at his mother's bedside when she passed away.
Mrs. Knapp joined the Seventh Day Baptist Church in 1889, when the family moved here, and remained a faithful member to the end. She will be greatly missed in the various meetings and the work of the church.
Besides Clarence and wife there are four sisters and a brother who survive her, - Mrs. Addie S. Billins, of Grand Rapids, Wis., Mrs. Sadie Coon, of Auburndale, Wis., Mrs. Gertrude F. Johnson, of Milton Junction, Wis., George W. Witter, of Wausau, Wis., and Mrs. Hattie S. Ingraham, of London, England.
Funeral services were conducted at the church on the afternoon of March 6, by the pastor, and burial was made in the Nortonville Cemetery.
H.L.P. [Pastor, Herbert L. Polan]
