Mary S. Heritage, the wife of Clarkson Heritage, was born in Jefferson County, Wis., October 19, 1846, and died at their home in McHenry County, Ill., Jan. 16, 1904, aged 57 years, 2 months and 27 days.
While she was yet very young her father, Gardner Saunders, settled near Milton, Wis., where she joined the Seventh-day Baptist church at about 16 years of age. She was married in 1866, and in 1872 they settled five and one-half miles from the Walworth church, and brought their membership to this church where it has been held in good standing to this day, except that they went back to Milton for a few years. She was one of our faithful members, ever striving to live in true Christian spirit. She served in official duties in state and county temperance work of the W. C. T. U. She leaves a husband and two adopted sons to mourn her loss. She was highly respected among their neighbors. The funeral service was at the Walworth church, Jan 18, and the burial at Milton, Wis., Jan 19. M. G. S.
