Surnames: KNEELAND

----Source: NEILLSVILLE REPUBLICAN PRESS (Clark County, Wis.) 01/07/1881

Kneeland, William ( - 1881)

The remains of Wm. Kneeland, the young man who died at the Rossman House (Neillsville, Clark County) last week, were buried at the expense of the county last Wednesday, all effort to bear from his friends up to that time having failed. A few hours after the body had been consigned to the grave, however, they were hears from in the person of his step-father and a half brother, who put in an appearance, claiming, to be able and willing to pay all expenses attendant upon his sickness and death. Acting in the interest of the county and believing that the parties referred to intended doing as they said, Mr. Campbell, on of the superintendents of the poor, gave them all assistance in obtaining a statement of the attendant expenses, but on Thursday morning they appeared to have changed their minds, and left without paying a single bill, or ever thanking those who had rendered them assistance for what they had done. Not being satisfied with their informal leave taking, Messrs. Campbell and Fullmer, of the superintendent's of the county poor, authorized Capt. Tolford, in the capacity of an officer of the law, to induce them to return. As we go to press, their return has not been announced, but they will come. We have not been able to learn the names of these parties, but they hail fro Ridgeway, Minn.