"The Milton Journal", Milton, Wisconsin, Thursday, Mar. 3, 1904, p 1. The people of Milton were greatly shocked last week by the announcement of the death, at Nortonville, Kansas, of Mrs. Fannie Wells Hills, wife of the Rev. George W. Hills of that city. Fannie Adell Wells was born in Berlin in this state in 1866. She was the fourth child of Mr. and Mrs. Judson Wells, well known residents of Milton. The family consisted of two sons, three daughters, and two sons. Fannie stood at the center, in age of the middle group. They have lived in Milton for many years, and were well known to Milton people. The three daughters have all now passed on to the eternal life. The four sons are still living - two in Milton, one in Hammond, La., and one in Hoquiam, Wash. In childhood and early womanhood, Mrs. Hills was extremely modest and retiring; distrustful of her own ability, she naturally shrank from everything like public notice or public service; but she was also as conscientious as she was modest, and to know what she ought to do was to settle all question about what she would try to do. These qualities greatly endeared her to all who knew her. The same qualities which made the child and young lady attractive, adorned her womanly character with most becoming grace. She was married to the Rev. George W. Hills in 1896, who was then making arrangements for settlement as Pastor of the Seventh-day Baptist Church of Nortonville. She entered most sympathetically into his work, and by her womanly qualities and efficient co-operation in her husband's work, won the esteem of all who knew her. She suffered an attack of the grip early in December last, from which she would seem to recover, and then it would attack her in some other form, and each time it would leave her weaker than before, until it resulted in cerebro meningitis, from which she suffered most severely until death came to her release. Brief funeral services were held at the home church at seven o'clock the following morning, and, despite the early hour and the almost impassable condition of the roads, a large congregation assembled to pay the last tribute of affection to her whom they had learned to love, and to shed the tear of sympathy with the deeply bereaved husband. The body was then brought to Milton for burial where funeral services were conducted by her former pastor, Dr. Platts, assisted by Pastor Crandall, of Milton Junction, and President Daland, of Milton College. A select choir, under the leadership of Prof. A. E. Whitford, sang beautiful and appropriate music, and the precious dust was laid to rest under the drifting snows, in the Milton cemetery. Besides the afflicted husband and other relatives and friends, there is left one child - a little girl about five and one half years of age, to miss her loving care and mourn her early departure. Mr. Hills, Mr. and Mrs. Wells, and the whole circle of relatives, far and near, have the profound sympathy of the entire community. They Came to Milton http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=jonsaunders