Paulley, John #2 (1859 - 1938), Clark County, Wisconsin Records

John Paulley, resident of Greenwood, died suddenly at his home there Thursday afternoon, July 7, 1938.

The funeral services were held the Methodist Church in Greenwood at 2"30 o’clock Sunday afternoon conducted by Rev. Gaylord whose sermon on the uncertainty of life and the tribute he paid Mr. Paulley will long be remembered by the large company of friends and relatives who came from far and near. The choir sang "In The Garden," and "Abide With Me". The profusion of the beautiful floral offerings was a silent testimony of the sympathy of the friends of the family and the esteem in which the late Mr. Paulley was held.

John Paulley was born in Jackson County near Roaring Creek June 2, 1859. He was married to Lucy Pratt of Shamrock in June 18880. To this union three daughters were born they are Maude, Mrs. Mace Poulton, Hobart, Indiana; Bertha, deceased; Mrs. Earl Meeks, Park Falls, Wis., and Etna, Mrs. Ira Leach of Greenwood. There are also eleven grand children and three great grand children who mourn the passing of Mr. Paulley.

Mr. and Mrs. Paulley engaged in farming for a number of years in Jackson County, selling their farm near Alma Center about thirty years ago when they moved to Loyal, owning the home now owned by Mrs. Emma Heaslett. Mr. Paulley worked at the carpenter’s trade and was also school janitor. After a time they moved to Kaiser near Park Falls where they again purchased a farm and sixteen years ago they moved to Greenwood where they owned a comfortable home and raised small fruit. Mrs. Paulley died suddenly several years ago. Mr. Paulley kept bravely on keeping the home in the same immaculate manner his dear companion had done and his pies and doughnuts and bread were the marvel of those who were fortunate enough to partake of them. He became the efficient caretaker of Greenwood’s beautiful cemetery, a task in which he took great pride perhaps because his own Lucy and dear daughter Bertha were lying there. The sod he had so recently mowed was broken to make a resting place for him by the side of his loved ones.

Mr. Paulley always provided well for his family. He was honest and upright in his dealings and glorified labor. "Relief", or "something for nothing" had no part in his life. Many a young person could learn a valuable lesson from this good man’s life. Many were the kindly remarks made at his funeral. Everyone liked "John" as he was known by young and old. His descendants have a rich heritage.

Among those who came from away to attend the funeral were the following, Mr. and Mrs. Mace Poulton, Hobart, Ind., Mr. and Mrs. Will Pratt and son Robert, Black River Falls; Miss Gertrude Pratt, Shamrock; Misses Mabel and Margaret Heast and Inez Pratt, Sparta; Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Pratt and daughters of Curtiss; Mr. and Mrs. Schlais and Ruth Meeks of Stetsonville; Mr. and Mrs. Eric Hoffmann, Fond du Lac; Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Pratt, Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Prior, Mr. and Mrs. James Colby and Mrs. Walter Mack, Loyal; and also two friends from Park Falls whose names are not known by the writer. Cor.

*John M. Paully was the son of Jessie and Mary Ann Polley and the grandson of William & Clarissa Polley / Pauley.

John Paulley passed away suddenly about 1:00 p.m. at his home in Greenwood, Clark County on Thursday, July 7, 1938, of a heart attack.

Mr. Paulley was born June 2, 1859 in Jackson County and spent most of his early life there and in Ohio. On June 12, 1884, he was married to Miss Lucy Pratt at Black River Falls. They moved to Loyal in 1905, later coming to Park Falls and coming to Greenwood in 1922. While here Mr. Paulley was sexton of the Greenwood Cemetery.

Mrs. Paulley passed away April 12, 1925. Three years ago Mr. Paulley moved onto a farm he purchase in Braun Settlement, returning to this city last August and again became sexton of the Cemetery.

Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Paulley, Mrs. Mace (Maud) Poulton of Hobart, Ind. Mrs. Ira (Etna) Leach, of Greenwood and Mrs. Earl (Bertha) Meek. Mrs. Meek passed away April 18, 1927.

He is survived by his two daughters, twelve grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and a host of friends.

Scripture reading and a prayer were held at the Schiller Funeral Home Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, followed by services at the M. E. Church, Rev. C.R. Gaylord officiated. Mrs. Harold Stabnow and Miss Vida Howard accompanied by Miss Mabel Bishop sang two songs, In a Garden and Abide With Me . The body was laid to rest beside his wife in the Greenwood Cemetery.

The pallbearers were Adolph Turnquist, Adolph Meyer, Adolph Geisler, P. W. Gullord, John Drummond and .(The rest of the obit was cut off on my copy)

Lucy Ellen Pratt was born in La Crosse Co, Wis., June 1st 1857, the second daughter of George and Margaret Pratt.

She came to Jackson Co., when a young girl and nearly all of her life has been spent in and around Jackson Co.

She was married to John M. Paulley June 12, 1881. To this union three daughters were born, all of whom are living.

She was a life member of the W.C.T.U. and also a member of the Royal Neighbor Lodge.

Mrs. Paulley was a kind neighbor, always ready to help any in need in any way an opportunity offered.

She was a kind and loving wife and mother. One who will be sadly missed by all. Mrs. Paulley died of heart failure Easter Sunday morning, April 12, 1925 while on her way to attend the Easter Program.

She leaves to mourn her death her husband and three daughters, Mrs. M. Pouton of Hobart, Ind., Mrs. Earl Meeks of Kaiser, Wis., and Mrs. Ida Leach of Greenwood, and twelve grandchildren, all of whom were in attendance at the funeral.

Funeral services were held from the M.E. Chruch Wednesday at 11:00 A.M. conducted by the Royal Neighbors. Rev. Thompson delivered a very little sermon on Mother. Interment was in the Greenwood Cemetery.

Obit: Pauley, Mary Ann (1837-1869)

SUICIDE AT NEILLSVILLE

From the Clark County Republican we learn that Mrs. Mary Ann Pauley, of Neillsville committed suicide there on the 12th inst., by taking and overdose of opium. It is supposed that she destroyed her life in a fit of momentary insanity. Mrs. Pauley was for many years a resident of Irving, in this county (Jackson), all of whose citizens will deeply regret the rash act.

Mary A Polley
Sex Female
Age 23 years
Birth Year (Estimated) 1837
Birthplace Pennsylvania
Race White
Event Type Census
Event Date 1860
Event Place Irving, Jackson, Wisconsin, United States
Page Number 90

Laudanum History

*—The Register says a female opium eater in Beloit thinks nothing of drinking a gill of laudanum at once. Dodge County Citizen, Beaver Dam, Wis., Thursday, 25 Aug 1870

Victor Frankenstein, who incidentally was a medical student and not a doctor, was very disturbed when the creature he created killed his friend Henry Clerval. Unable to sleep, he dosed himself with laudanum, perhaps the Victorian era’s most popular medicine. Laudanum was a 10 percent solution of opium powder in alcohol, widely used to treat everything from pain and insomnia to female disorders. It was even used to quiet crying babies. The name was coined from the Latin laudare, meaning “to praise” by the 16th century Swiss-German physician Paracelsus, best known for his dictum “only the dose makes the poison.” It was Paracelsus who discovered that the active ingredients in opium were more soluble in alcohol than water, however, his laudanum differed from the version used in the Victorian era. In addition to opium it also contained powdered gold and pearls. Still, this was simpler than the galenicals: complex concoctions made from dozens of plant and other ingredients according to the teachings of the Roman physician Galen that dominated medicine about 1,500 years.

Opium, an exudate of Papaver somniferum, a poppy cultivated historically in Asia, was already well known to Galen. He was a fan, recommending its use for headaches, vertigo, deafness, epilepsy, asthma, coughs, venomous bites, dimness of sight, spitting of blood, shortness of breath, jaundice, urinary complaints, women’s troubles and melancholy. No doubt the opium made many forget their troubles thanks to its main active ingredient: morphine. And when it came to pain and coughs, opium definitely worked. Little wonder that morphine has remained a mainstay of medicine. Indeed, when famed Harvard Medical School professor and writer Oliver Wendell Holmes opined in the 1800s that if all medicinal drugs used at the time could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, “it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes.” However, he was careful to make an exception for opium and anesthesia. Indeed it was Holmes who in 1846 suggested the term anesthesia from the Greek word for “senseless” to describe the state produced by the inhalation of ether in a letter to dentist William Morton after he had carried out the first public demonstration of the use of ether during surgery.

In 1676, the English physician Thomas Sydenham simplified Paracelsus’ laudanum recipe to just opium in alcohol. This was very effective against pain but many looked to it for its euphoria effect. The effects of laudanum were well described in Thomas De Quincey’s classic work Confessions of an English Opium Eater. De Quincey had been introduced to laudanum in 1804 as a treatment for trigeminal neuralgia, a disease of the trigeminal nerve that runs down the face. Even mild stimulation such as brushing the teeth or exposure to the wind can trigger a jolt of excruciating pain. Little wonder that De Quincey sang the praises of laudanum, “Here was a panacea for all human woes, here was the secret of happiness.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge was also made happy with laudanum. His famous poem “Kubla Khan” about the 13th century Chinese Emperor was based on a dream he had while in a laudanum-induced stupor.

There are a number of references to laudanum in literature aside from that in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. In Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Cassy kills one of her children with laudanum to prevent him from growing up in slavery. Bram Stoker in Dracula has the count lace Lucy’s maids’ wine with laudanum to put them to sleep. Although laudanum today is no longer available under the name “tincture of opium,” it is still sometimes used to treat diarrhea. And morphine, of course, first isolated from opium in 1803 by the German pharmacist Friedrich Serturner, is a mainstay of pain therapy. Morphine was the first alkaloid ever isolated from a plant, making Serturner the first person to isolate an active ingredient from a medicinal plant. He named it morphium after Morpheus, the Greek god of dreams. Indeed, as far as pain relief goes, morphine is a dream substance. But it can also be a nightmare when it comes to addiction. Joe Schwarcz,director of McGill University’s Office for Science and Society.

Ida Lavinia Harris was born 22 Mar 1860, in Jerome Township, Union County, Ohio, the daughter of Daniel David Harris (1822–1890) and Melvina Filena Latimer (25 Jul 1823, in Ames, Athens Co., OH-22 Oct 1887 in Vernon, WI)

She became the wife of William Marsh Paulley (26 Nov 1854 in Fox twp., Elk Co., PA –1934 in Black River Falls, Jackson Co., WI) Death:1938. They were the parents of Mabel Paulley, 1882–1965; Louise Paulley, 1885–1940; Ira Paulley1887 -?; and Leonard Paulley, 1889–?)

William Marsh Paulley
Sex Male
Father's Name Ira Paulley
Father's Sex Male
Mother's Name Lavina Paulley
Mother's Sex Female
Spouse's Name Ida Lavina Harris
Spouse's Sex Female
Spouse's Father's Name David Daniels
Spouse's Father's Sex Male
Spouse's Mother's Name Melvina Daniels
Event Type Marriage
Event Date 15 Oct 1879
Event Place Jackson, Wisconsin, United States
Source Details P.241, 759

Clarrisa was born in 1877 in Orange County, New York, near the time the battle of Saratoga Springs, where the United States won a huge turning point victory over the British.

1860 Federal Census, Irving, Jackson, Wisconsin, United States, Page Number 90

Clarissa Polley /Pauley / Paulley
Birth:1777, Orange, New York, United States
Death: 29 May 1872 Irving, Jackson, Wisconsin, United States
William Polley
Birth
unknown
Death
10 Feb 1846
Burial: Greenridge Cemetery
Saratoga Springs, Saratoga County, New York, USA
Lot: C - 045 (Old)

William Polley fought in the War of 1812 and was awarded land in Jackson County, NY for his service. That property was claimed after his death by his wife, Clarrisa.

10 Feb 1846
Greenridge Cemetery
Saratoga Springs, Saratoga County, NY
PLOT
Lot: C - 045 (Old Cemetery)

How many people were killed in the Battles? A: The British side lost about 1500 men, the American side about 800.

New York | Sep 19 - Oct 7, 1777

The Battle of Saratoga was a turning point in the Revolutionary War. The American defeat of the superior British army lifted patriot morale, furthered the hope for independence, and helped to secure the foreign support needed to win the war.
How it ended

American victory. One of the most decisive American battles of the Revolutionary War, Saratoga ended British general John Burgoyne's attempt to control the Hudson River Valley. The outcome convinced the Court of King Louis XVI that the Americans could hold their own against the British Army, sealing the alliance between America and France. American general Benedict Arnold was hailed as a hero for his bravery on the battlefield, a reputation lost with his later betrayal and defection to the Royalists.
In context

In 1777, British strategy called for a three-pronged attack on New York, with three separate armies converging near Albany. For British general John Burgoyne, moving south from Canada with 7,500 men, the Hudson River Valley became the critical route for the invasion. By August, Burgoyne had captured Fort Ticonderoga, defeated fleeing American troops at Hubbardton (Vermont), and occupied Fort Edward, on the edge of the Hudson River. After a contingent of Burgoyne’s troops was defeated in the Battle of Bennington, his reduced forces marched south toward Saratoga in early September.

General Horatio Gates and his American soldiers had built formidable defenses on Bemis Heights, just south of Saratoga overlooking the Hudson. The two armies engaged in combat at Freeman’s Farm on September 19. While the British held off the Americans, their losses were great. Burgoyne’s battered forces dug trenches and waited for reinforcements, but none came. Burgoyne launched a second, unsuccessful attack on the Americans at Bemis Heights on October 7. With no means of escape, Burgoyne eventually surrendered to Gates on October 17. The victory persuaded France to sign a treaty with the United States against Britain. France’s financial and military support contributed to Washington’s victory at Yorktown in 1781, which effectively ended America’s War for Independence.

William E Polley (Son of William & Clarissa Polley / Pauley)
Died: 3 Feb 1886, and was buried in the Queechy Cemetery
Canaan, Columbia County, NY

----Source: Brodhead Independent (13 Sep 1878), Black River Falls, Badger State Banner, (6 Sep 1878)

A sad and fatal threshing machine accident happened near Davis’ Ferry, on the farm of George B. Nichols, in the town of Irving, a few days ago. The un- fortunate victim was Marion Vice, of Manchester, twenty-four or five years of age. He was working around the separator, above the cylinder, when his feet slipped in some way, and one leg was drawn into the cylinder while in full motion, and the leg was mangled in a horrible manner from the foot above the knee. The foot, with the boot on, went through the cylinder, and was found on the other side after the accident. In fact, some of the cords of the leg were drawn out clear up to the body. He died the following day.

----Source: Brodhead Independent (13 Sep 1878), Black River Falls, Badger State Banner, (6 Sep 1878)

6 Sep 1878

Sept. 2d.

— A sad and fatal threshing-machine accident happened near Davis' Ferry, on the farm o f Geo. B. Nichols, last Friday afternoon between four and five o'clock. The unfortunate victim was Marion Vice, of Manchester, twenty-four or five years of age. He was working around the separator, above the cylinder, when his feet slipped in some way and one leg was drawn into the cylinder while in full motion, and the leg was mangled in a horrible manner from the foot above the knee, The foot, with the boot on,, went through the cylinder, and was found on the other side after the accident. In fact some o f the cords of the leg were drawn out clear up to the body. Dr. II. B. Cole, of your village, was called, and amputated the leg a short distance above the knee, but the nervous shock and loss of blood was so great that the wounded man died about seven o'clock on Saturday. Mr. Vice was an industrious and tine young man, and was loved and respected by a large circle of friends and relatives. He leaves a widowed mother, of whom he was the main support in her declining years, and a younger brother to mourn his premature and accidental death. Floy.

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