Mrs. Paul McDonald, whose serious and prolonged illness we noticed last week, was relieved from her sufferings, by death on Friday evening of last Week. On Thursday afternoon she had fallen into a deep sleep, from which she did not again awaken. At seven fifty o’clock, Friday evening, she stopped breathing, without a struggle, and was no more.
Her malady was a peculiar one, something akin to a cancer on the side of her face. Though indications of some affection in her face had been apparent, at times, all her life, yet the first painful evidence of its serious nature had appeared only about three years ago, when spending a winter in Delaware. In its later development, it was a most painful disease, and her death came as sweet relief. Mrs. Arabella McDonald, whose maiden name was Hibbard, was born at Halifax, N. S., on the 7th day of March, 1806, and was therefore, not quite 73 years of age. She was united in marriage to Paul McDonald, Esq., about the year 1836, and with him emigrated to Wisconsin, and arrived at Oconto in January, 1853, where she has since made her home. She was, thus, one of the earliest residents of this community and witnessed its progress from its earliest beginning to the present. With pleasant home surroundings and associations, she was in a position to enjoy life for many years, had not this painful disease insinuated itself into her life. Two sisters, Mrs. Barnard and Mrs. Pauley, who reside here, and a brother, who resides in New Brunswick are, we believe, the only surviving members of her father’s family.