Posted on: Wood Co. Wi Obits Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Wi/WoodObits/354 Surname: AYERS, BULLIS, BROWN, COLVIN, COTEY, HILES, SPROUL, TARBOS, WOODISSE, WOODWORTH ------------------------- B R TARBOX Obit printed in the Pittsville Record, Volume 1 Number 37, Wednesday April 27, 1910, Page 7 and the Pittsville Record, Volume 1 Number 38, Wednesday May 4, 1910, Page 1 The calm serenity of the city was mightily disturbed Sunday morning of this week when the news of the death of B R TARBOX became generally known. His calling away was very sudden. He had been about the city during the day and not until supper time Saturday night did he complain of being unwell. A physician was called in that evening and succeeded in getting a quicker and stronger pulse and the patient into a sleep from which he awakened at three in the morning Sunday. At 4 another call was made and from that time on he gradually weakened, until about 5am, he settled into a chair after a turn about the room, the spirit flown. Death was due to a fatty degeneration of the heart. Byron R. TARBOX was born June 21, 1838, and was a native of the State of ME. He was at his death 71 years, 10 months and 3 days of age. He joined the Union forces in the great struggle of secession. After the War he came to WI and at Necedah (Juneau Co, WI) in the year 1869 was married to Miss Eliza M BULLIS. Four children blessed their union, two only of which survived. Mrs Mary WOODISSE, of this city, and Robert O TARBOX, of Tacoma, WA, a brother in MT and a sister in CA survive him. He came to Pittsville with his family in 1870 and has since resided here, his hearty constitution adapting him to the rough work of the river and the woods in the capacity of foreman for the Lyman Lumber Company in the early days, and other firms later. The funeral services will be conducted Friday at the Masonic Hall, an order of which he has been a member since 1863. Burial will follow at Mound Cemetery, his remains interred next to his wife who preceded him some years ago. F S WOODWORTH will read the funeral rites of the order, with Undertaker WERNER assisting with the arrangements. The pallbearers will be Masons, being E D AYERS, L E COLVIN, F P HILES, Geo W BROWN, A B COTEY and W L SPROUL. Thus passeth another of the Yellow River land marks. They are slowly fading away, these sturdy oaks of the pioneer days who came into this country half a century ago and blazed the way for latter day civilization. May we all hold fit reverence for them. Hardly a thing can be said of the deceased that is not known to every man, woman and child in the western part of Wood county and adjoining counties, so generally was he known. And he will be missed, that familiar stooped figure with the strength and endurance to sustain self during the pioneer days gone. He had just become comfortably settled to spend the remaining days of his life in placid retirement when the stroke came, calling him to a new home of everlasting retirement. His was of the most gentle dispositions imbued in the makeup of man: he was honored for his stalwart faith and loved for his kindliness, and a county as well as a city will mourn his demise. Joan M. Benner, Golden Rule Genealogy Member, Association of Professional Genealogists Rootsweb Sponsor Link: Golden Rule Genealogy URL: <http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwood/resource/r-joanb.htm>