Ellen (Mead) Sullivan; died December 29, 1904
Pick and Gad
Shullsburg, Wisconsin
December 1904
Mrs. Dan Sullivan/Ellen Mead
MRS. ELLEN SULLIVAN Died, in the town of Seymour, Tuesday, December 29, 1904, Mrs. Ellen Sullivan, wife of the late Daniel Sullivan.
Deceased was born in County Cork, Ireland, in 182(?), and came with her parents to Galena, Ill., in 1828, where her parents died and are buried in the old cemetery now covered by a part of the city. She was married to Daniel Sullivan in 1848, and the following year settled with her husband on the farm in Seymour where she resided up to the time of her death.
Her maiden name was Ellen Mead, and she was the last of a large family of brothers and sisters.
She was the mother of five children, two of whom, Mrs. Chas. Boyle of Seymour, and Patrick Sullivan of Calamine, survive her. Her husband died in 1886, since which time she made her home with her son-in-law, Chas. Boyle, where loving care smoothed the pathway of her declining years, and surrounded her with every comfort.
The deceased was a true type of the early pioneer people to whose self-sacrifice and sterling worth the developmentof the lead region and present prosperous community is a monument grander than marble. Her kindly presence will be sadly missed, and her charitable deeds will long be cherished by many. By her death one more old settler, a kind mother, neighbor and friend, is gone.
~Submitter: Rose