Mrs. Mary Waddell Lloyd, 99, died at her home in the city Tuesday, November 23. For the past 13 years she had been a resident of Durand where she made many friends. She was a member of the Congregational church and the Eastern Star chapter of Winona.
Mary Waddell was born on a farm near Verona, Wis., July 30, 1849, of pioneer parents, James and Isabelle Borthwick Waddell, of Scotch descent. She was married to Charles Wesley Lloyd in 1865, who preceded her in death many years ago. Of the children, Mrs. H. H. (Evalyn) Home of Durand is the only survivor, and helped care for her mother the past six years. Preceding her in death were Mrs. C. A. (Irmina) Ingram; Dr. James W. Lloyd, Mrs. E. W. (Cora) Barrett and Fred C. Lloyd and William and Jessie who died in infancy.
In 1910 Mrs. Lloyd joined her son, Dr. J. W. Lloyd in Buenos Aires, S. A., where they lived until 1915 when they returned to this country because of the war. For a time then Mrs. Lloyd lived at Bowman, N. D. Mrs. Lloyd and the son, Dr. J. W. came to Durand in 1935, but he died a month later. In 1925 they had visited in ancestral Scotland.
Mrs. Lloyd leaves besides the one daughter 10 grandchildren: Miss Fanniejean Home, Durand; Mrs. Lee Owen, Springfield, Minn.; Mrs. Arnold Rosaan, Evansville, Ind.; Mrs. Orvin Melby, Madison; Mrs. Karl Parish, Eau Claire; Dr. Wm. Cutler, Portland, Ore.; James W. Lloyd, Cudahy; Mrs. Mary Lloyd Schacherl, Harry Cutler and Mrs. J. Harold Bumby of Milwaukee. Among the 15 great grandchildren are Maxine Owen, Springfield, Minn.; Mrs. Leon Pease, Olivia, Minn.; Mrs. L. Laws, Holt, Mich.; James Melsby, Carroll College; Robert, Russell and Gail Parish, Eau Claire; Adain, Bruce, Mary Jane and Beverly Bumby, and Karlee and Ralph Schacherl Jr., Milwaukee; Andrea Rosaaen of Evansville, Ind.; and Wm. Cutler Jr., Portland, Ore. Also two great great grandchildren, Terry Pease, Olivia, Minn. and Gregory Laws, Holt, Mich.
Verona Centennial Souvenir 1847-1947
History of Verona
Page 21
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Early History of the White School District
In a recent letter from Mrs. Mary Waddel Lloyd, who is now living at Durand, Wisconsin, she tells of some recollections of her early days in the White School. Mrs. Lloyd is the daughter of James Waddell, who entered the Richardson Cave about 1845. That story has been recorded in a previous paragraph. Mrs. Lloyd was 98 years old on July 30, and her daughter, Mrs. Home, writes that her mother is in excellent health, but her sight is not as good as in earlier days. She knits afghans and when the weather is nice, she walks around the block near her home. Mrs. Lloyds story follows:
Before the school was built Miss Mary Etta White taught three or four pupils in a room of her brother, Addison White's, home. Two of them were Belle Waddell and Warren White. Later at the school house (built in 1850) the following were the teachers, Miss Lucinda Bartlett, Miss Atwood, Miss Jaynes, Miss Dorothy Charlton. They taught a term of five summer months, receiving $1.25 a month and board one week for each pupil at the various homes.
At one time there was a fight among the school board members, some demanding the hiring of a man teacher and the others wanting to keep Miss Atwood. The discussion lasted so long that Miss Atwood accepted another school. The teacher they hired after that had no discipline and the big boys would snowball her and thus kept her from returning to the classes. Grandfather Waddell was on the school board at the time so we heard it all talked over at home.
Miss Elizabeth Parks was my favorite teacher. In 1905, Mrs. Tom Stewart (Jessie Rutherford) and I spent an afternoon with her in Verona. She was married and had two grown sons. (Editor's Note: She married John Rowell) Other teachers as I recall were Abigail Ingles by, a cousin of Miss Parks, Miss Augusta Van Buren, Miss Roxanna Sayles, Charlie Smith and Dave Newman.
The pupils which I remember are Bill, Anna and Ellen Brown, Warren, Charlie, Alzina, Emma and Martha White, Jessie and Jane Rutherford, Jim Leslie, Charlie and "Looney" Wheelie; Mary, Hannah, George, John, Jeremiah, Melvina and Melvin Proud; Belle, Mary, Jessie Waddell; Jessie and Isabelle (twins) Dorothy and Maggie Compbell, Moses Hedeman, Jessie Lindsay, Walter Waddell, Jr., John Bowen, Harriet Bowen, Henry, Charlie and Mary Himsel.
The Waddell family lived where the Mauritz Lamberty family live now, in fact the farm corners the towns of Verona, Cross Plains, Middleton and Springdale. Mr. James Waddell, the father of Mrs. Lloyd, came here from Scotland in 1842. He built a log house on the farm and later, in 1856, he built the stone house that is still in use on this farm,
Obituary (unknown source, from family scrapbook)
Durand, Wisconsin
Thursday, December 2, 1948
(Find A Grave Memoria l#41380091)
