SPRAGUE, Hattie (Graves) 1856-1937

SPRAGUE, GRAVES, LEIN, SAWYER

Posted By: Diane M Scott (email)
Date: 12/29/2010 at 12:22:03

Hattie (Graves) Sprague 1856-1937

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MRS. SPRAGUE WILL BE BURIED IN OSAGE

Osage – G. H. Sawyer received word of the death of his aunt, Mrs. Hattie Sprague, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Alice Lein in Janesville, Wisconsin.

Mrs. Sprague and her husband, the late M. A. Sprague, were old and influential residents of Osage. Mr. Sprague built the Sprague block which was recently sold to J. E. Whitney and Arthur Olson. Mr. Sprague operated a lumber yard here where the Young Lumber company now stands and then later they moved to Sprague where they operated a sawmill. The town was named for Mr. Sprague.

Funeral services were held Wednesday in Janesville, Wis., and the body will be brought here for burial in the family lot beside her husband, as soon as weather conditions permit.

Two children survive, Mrs. Alice Lein and Monroe Sprague of Janesville, Wisocnsin.

Mason City Globe Gazette, Wednesday, March 24, 1937

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Hattie (Graves) Sprague was born August 1856 in Mitchell Co., Iowa, the daughter of Jacob and Emily Graves. She married Milton A Sprague.