E.B. Kelsey
Died. At his residence in Montello, on the 12th Inst., the Hon. E. B. Kelsey, aged 35 years and three months.
Mr. Kelsey was sick a short time - some two weeks. He received an injury a few weeks since in attempting to draw a pail of water, which seemed at first of but slight importance; but which, after a short time, assumed a rheumatic character of the inflammatory kind, and which (after a few days of great suffering) finally settled upon his brain causing a brain fever, of which he died.
Mr. Kelsey leaves a wife and three children. In this dispensation of the Almighty, a beloved wife and children are bereft of one of the most affectionate and kind of husbands and fathers, and society has sustained an irreparable loss of one of its most estimable, valuable and respected citizens. Mr. Kelsey loved and adored his wife and children, and was friendly and gentlemanly in his intercourse with his fellow citizens and acquaintances. He was born in Perry, Wyoming Co., N.Y.., May 1826, and came to Wisconsin when it was comparatively a wilderness. He was one of the oldest settlers in Montello, and has ever been identified with all its interests.
Mr. Kelsey's life has been a varied and active one. He has been at different times a printer, editor, lawyer, merchant, politician, and banker. He has ably represented this District in the House and Senate, and was unquestionably one of the shrewdest politicians and business men in the state; a firm friend to those whom he respected; generous to a fault, a gentleman, and an ornament of any community.
Montello owes much to his untiring energy and perseverance for its present prosperity and future prospects, and all in this community seem heartily to join in sympathy with the bereaved wife, children and connections and with each other in the loss of one of the most devoted of husbands, affectionate of fathers and of a much respected fellow citizen.
Mr. Kelsey was a Free Mason, and will be buried on Sunday at 12 M., in Montello, under the impressive ceremony of that order.
Montello, Feb'y 15th, 1861
[Weekly Wisconsin Patriot - 23 Feb. 1861, From the Montello (Marquette Co.) Ledger, 19th - Sub. by Brenda W.]

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Butler G. Plum
At Green Lake, Marquette co., on the 11th ult., after a sickness of eleven days, of bilious congestive fever, Mr. BUTLER G. PLUM, aged 44 years. Mr. P. immigrated to Wisconsin from Oneida co., N.Y., in 1836, and settled at Green Bay, from whence he removed to Green Lake in March, 1842. Beloved by acquaintances and friends, he has left behind him a name esteemed and respected by all who knew him; and his death will long be mourned, as well as by these as by his widow and four children. Wisconsin Democrat (14 Sept. 1843)- Sub. by Marla Zwakman]