Bertha Sylvester and Albert Lewis
BERTHA SYLVESTER, daughter of EMILY BELL KINNEY and MOSES WOOD SYLVESTER, was born May 14, 1885 in Green County, Wisconsin,12249 and died May 1, 1932 in Green County, Wisconsin.456 She is buried in Hillcrest Cemetery, Albany, Green, Wisconsin.456
She married ALBERT LEWIS on November 21, 1914 in Monroe, Green, Wisconsin.8841, 12250 He was born June 30, 1886 in Mt. Pleasant Township, Green, Wisconsin,8841 and died November 21, 1965 in Monroe, Green, Wisconsin.8841 He is buried in Hillcrest Cemetery, Albany, Green, Wisconsin.456
Marriage Announcements and News
Janesville Daily Gazette, November 27, 191412250
The marriage of Miss Bertha Sylvester and Albert Lewis, both of this place, took place in Monroe Saturday. Congratulations.
Obituaries
Janesville Daily Gazette, May 2, 193212249
Mrs. Lewis Dies North of Albany
Albany — Mrs. Albert Lewis, 47, died at 4:39 p. m. Sunday in her home, four miles northeast of here. She had been ill for more than a year, and had undergone two serious operations in the Wisconsin General hospital in Madison.
Mrs. Lewis was formerly Miss Bertha Sylvester, a daughter of Moses and Emily Sylvester of Sylvester township, who also resided here for many years, and was born there Dec. 14, 1885. She attended rural schools, and continued to live on her parents' farm until her marriage to Albert Lewis of Mt. Pleasant, Nov. 21, 1914.
They lived on a farm in Exeter for five years, and have since lived on the farm where she died. Survivors are her husband, two children, Myrtle, 15, and John, 10; and three sisters, Mrs. Eugene Laughridge, Albany, Mrs. Charles Purington, Monticello, and Mrs. John Tobler, Muscara, N. M.; and two brothers, Maurice Sylvester, Spooner, Wis., and Walter, Brownsville, Texas.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Tuesday in the Baptist church here, the Rev. H. A. Erickson officiating. Burial will be in Hillcrest cemetery.
Monroe Evening Times, November 22, 19658841
Albert Lewis
ALBANY — Albert Lewis, 79, lifelong area resident and retired farmer, died at 8:55 p.m. yesterday in St. Clare Hospital, Monroe, where he had been a patient one week.
A native of Green County, he was born in Mt. Pleasant Township June 30, 1886, the son of John and Helen Ross Lewis. He married Bertha Sylvester Nov. 21, 1914 ant they farmed in the Albany area. She died in 1932. Following his retirement a few years ago, Mr. Lewis moved to the village.
Surviving are a son, John, Albany; a daughter, Mrs. Myrtle Borgwardt, Milton Junction; two grandchildren; a brother, Lester, of Albany; three sisters, Miss Idell Lewis, Albany, Mrs. Ethel Hefty, Evansville, and Mrs. Edith Staley, Brooklyn. Three brothers and four sisters predeceased him.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Sharer Funeral Home, the Rev. Dennis Hahn, Albany Baptist Church, officiating, with burial in Hillcrest Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home tomorrow evening.
Census Records
| Date | Location | Enumerated Names |
|---|---|---|
| June 22, 19007153 | Sylvester, Green, Wisconsin | |
| May 3, 19107154 | Sylvester, Green, Wisconsin |
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