- Mr. and Ms. R. N. WOLCOTT brought the remains of their son, Allen W., from their home in Grand Rapids, Mich., to Batavia (Illinois), Wednesday, April 8, 1896, and placed them in the family plot, at the West Side Cemetery. Deceased passed away, Sunday, April 5th, 1896. He as the youngest son of R. N. WOLCOTT, and a grandson of Mr. Nathan WOLCOTT, of this city. The afflicted family have the sympathies of their Batavia friends, in this their hour of sorrow.
Contributed by Kim Torp from the Batavia Herald, Kane County, IL, 9 April 1896
WRIGHT, Max
- Grand Rapids, (MI) Sept. 23 (1903) – Incased in a plain pointed pine box that did not cost more than $2.50, the body of Prof. Max Wright, instructor in modern languages in Leland Stanford University and the son of wealthy parents, was buried late yesterday. A simple burial was ordered by Prof. Wright. He believed the custom of lavish burial barbarous and economically wrong, and directed, before his death, that $200 of his money, that would ordinarily be spent for his funeral, be used for a public fountain as a monument to his memory. Prof. Wrights’s father did the work of the undertaker. There was no minister and no religious service, and the body was taken to the grave in a plain wagon. At the grave Dr. Wright, father of the deceased, addressed his relatives and friends, explaining the reason for the simple funeral.
Transcribed as written by D. Donlon - Palestine Daily Herald (TX) September 24, 1903
