Surnames: Tuthill, Prais, Meek, Douthitt, Konen, Strong, Lapcheska, Cater, Franklin

----Source: Abbotsford Tribune (Abbotsford, Clark County, Wis.) 01/27/1944

Tuthill, Matilda (5 Apr. 1881 - 19 Jan. 1944)

Mrs. Charles M. Tuthill, 62, widow of a Soo line conductor, was found dead in bed at her home last Wednesday night when police were summoned after a neighbor reported she had not been seen since Monday. She lived alone. Coroner Victor S. Prais, who conducted an investigation, reported that death was from natural causes and that there would be no inquest.

The neighbor, Mrs. Hugh Meek, who had observed that Mrs. Tuthill’s mail was still outside on Tuesday and Wednesday and that the house was dark, believed at first that Mrs. Tuthill had gone to Marshfield. On Wednesday evening she made further inquiry and the authorities were called. It was established that Mrs. Tuthill had died after 12:30 o’clock Monday night, as she telephoned to a daughter in Chicago at that hour. Nothing unusual had been noticed by two college girls who occupy a separate apartment in the Tuthill house.

Mrs. Tuthill, whose maiden name was Matilda Douthitt, was born at Spring Valley in Pierce county, April 5, 1881, and the family subsequently moved to Hersey in St. Croix county. Her marriage to Mr. Tuthill took place March 28, 1900. They lived at Abbotsford until July, 1910, when they moved to Stevens Point, and Mrs. Tuthill has continued to reside there since, with the exception of intervals at Chippewa Falls and Marshfield. Her husband died Aug. 31, 1940.

She was a member of St. Paul’s Methodist church and the Ladies’ Auxiliary to the Order of Railway Conductors.

Surviving are three daughters and two sons: Mrs. John Konen of Stevensville, Mich.; Mrs. Elmer Strong, Mrs. R. J. Lapcheska and Richard Tuthill of Chicago and Robert, in the maritime service at Sheepshead Bay, N.Y. All of the children arrived in Stevens Point. Mrs. Tuthill also has two sisters and one brother, Mrs. Frank Cater, Tacoma, Wash.; Mrs. Bertha Franklin of Milwaukee and John Douthitt, of Westboro. There are five grandchildren.