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Thursday, Dec. 19, 1918 - Wisconsin Veterans Home column in Waupaca Post.
| Edward A. Ehle was born in New York State June 8th,
1842 and when a child came to Wisconsin where he had since resided. (He was
a son of Harrison and
Christina Warmuth
Ehle) On the 30th day of Nov. 1868, he was married to Miss Melissa Carpenter
(Daughter of Henry and Maria Cookingham
Carpenter). Mr. and Mrs. Ehle became members of this Home on Sept. 6th,
1904. Mr. Ehle passed away on the 9th of Dec. 1918, at his room in Bryant
Hall, at the age of seventy - six months and one day. Mr. Ehle is survived
by his widow, Mrs.
Melissa Ehle and four children: Mrs. Edna Caudy
(Kaudy) of Waupaca; Edward A. Ehle, Jr., of Phillips, Wis., Marshall Ehle
of Waupaca, and Mrs. Madge Fisher of Michigan. There are also nine grand-children
and one great-grandchild. Also a brother and sister, Albert Ehle, Grand Rapids;
Mrs. Ida Cole of North Fond du Lac.
Mr. Ehle enlisted at Fond du Lac, Wis., on Dec. 21st, 1863, and served as Sergeant in Co. H, 37th Wis. Vol. Inf., and was discharged at Delany House, D.C., July 27th, 1865. Mr. Ehle was a member of F.A. Marden Post, G.A.R., No. 126, and an honorary member of Home Circle No. 18, Ladies of the G.A.R. His church affiliation was with the M.E.Church. The quarantine on account of the prevailing influenza made it necessary to hold a private funeral which was held at the Home morgue, Wednesday, Dec. 11, and the body was laid to rest in the Home cemetery. |
| History Wisconsin Veteran's Home - Page 61 describes
the Cemetery at King: The Home cemetery, a part of this addition, contains
five acres, and lies southeast of the farm, gently sloping toward the north
and west. It is well kept and so platted that there is a separate space allotted
to every Wisconsin regiment; each plat being marked with the number of the
regiment for which it is intended, and designated Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery.
There are also a few plats for soldiers of other states. A government stone
is set at every soldier's grave. Heretofore the women have had no stone or
marker, unless they had left enough money for one with the request that it
be provided, or some relative or friend should supply one for them. That
condition is now a thing of the past, as the Home employees are at work making
very neat cement markers for the grave of every woman in the cemetery, not
having a gravestone.
Not all the members who pass over the "Great Divide" while residents of the Home are buried in the Home cemetery; some are taken to their old homes and buried in the family lots. When this is done all the expenses connected therewith must be assumed and paid from the estate of the deceased or by relatives or friends. If buried at the Home all expenses are borne by the Home. |
See Also: Harrison Ehle Database
