At Daytona, Fla., December 23, 1911, of Dropsy, Thomas L. Stillman, in the seventy-ninth year of his age.
He was the last member of a family of five sons and two daughters born to Zebulon and Eunice Wells Stillman, who were descendants in the fifth generation from the first settlers in Westerly, R. I. He was born August 16, 1833. He was a volunteer in the First R. I. Light Artillery. At the close of the war he removed to Edgerton, Wis., where for about fifty years he followed the trade of wagon maker, which he had learned at Westerly. His only child, a son of his first wife, died in childhood. Fannie Wilcox, the beloved wife to whom he was married fifty years ago, died in 1907.
He was honorable in business and had many friends, being known generally as "Uncle Tom." The H. S. Swift Post, G. A. R., of which he was a charter member and in which he took much interest, had charge of his burial services. He has been a member of the Pawcatuck Seventh-day Baptist Church since childhood.
Services were conducted at his late home, December 29, by Pastor L. C. Randolph of Milton. L. C. R.
