Vernon County Wisconsin Obituaries and Death Notices

Newel Angell
Source: "Wisconsin Daily Patriot", 19 Mar 1863 - Submitted by Jan Stypula

DIED. -- At his house in Beardstown, Vernon County, Wis., on the 16th March, at 8 o'clock in the evening, Capt. NEWEL ANGELL, father of Mr. W. H. Angell, of Sun Prairie, in this county.
The deceased was greatly respected by numerous friends in this county, and at the place of his last residence. He was aged 73 years on the 20, of last December and was born in Washington county, New York, in 1789. He moved from Ticonderoga, N. Y., to this state in 1850, and during his active and useful life was a sound and constant supporter of Democratic principles. His body was brought to this county for burial and interred here on Friday, the 13th inst. Thus has another of the industrious and indomitable band of pioneers from New York state, who have done so much for Wisconsin gone to the dust with honor and respect on his grey hairs.

Herman Berg
Source: Wisconsin Weekly Advocate (25 Jan. 1900) transcribed by FoFG MZ

La Crosse, Wis., Jan. 22. – The body of Herman Berg, who died in Denver, Col., suddenly, and about whom there was some uncertainty as to his identity, arrived here this morning. It was met by his brother and sister from Chaseburg, Vernon county, and taken there for burial. Berg was formerly connected with the government improvement work on the Mississippi.

Capt. John B. Casson
Source: Cudahy Times (Cudahy, Wis.) Sunday, 31 Dec. 1893; submitted by FoFG (MZ)

VIROQUA, Wis., Dec. 27. - Capt. John B. Casson, aged 61 years, county clerk of Vernon for twenty-six years, died this morning of the grippe. He was a brother of Col. Henry Casson and was a member of the late Gen. Rusk's Twenty fifth Regiment. The funeral will take place Saturday.

Kenneth E. DeWitt
The La Crosse Tribune (La Crosse, Wis.) Saturday, 9 Sept. 1950, page 8; submitted by Diana Heser Morse

Tri-state Deaths
Viroqua, Wis. (Special) Services for Kenneth Everett DeWitt, 46, will be held at the home in the Fargo community near Viroqua Monday at 1 p.m. and at the Liberty Pole Methodist church at 2 p.m. The Rev. George Marshall of Viroqua and the Rev. B. B. Zeuner, North Freedom, officiating. Burial will be in the Liberty Pole cemetery.
Friends may call at the Vance and Hall funeral home in Viroqua Saturday evening or at the home Sunday afternoon and evening.

Surviving De Witt are his wife, two daughters, Mrs. Melvin Fortney and Beverly of Viroqua; two sons, Kenneth, Jr., Gays Mills, and Robert, Viroqua; his mother, Mrs. Levi De Witt, Sparta; two sisters, Mrs. Frank Harris, Tomah, and Mrs. Alvin Vandervort, Richland Center; and a brother, Thomas, La Farge.

Mrs. Thomas Hoffland
The La Crosse Tribune (La Crosse, Wis.) 12 Feb. 1951; submitted by Diana Heser Morse

MRS. THOMAS HOFFLAND
Viroqua, Wis. (Special) Mrs. Thomas Hoffland, 79, died Friday at her home in Viroqua. She is survived by her husband; four sons, Enos, Cyrus and Burnen, all of Viroqua, and Ervin, Soldiers Grove; three brothers, Tollef Hulsether, Viroqua, William Boscobel, and Ole, living in California, and five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at the Hoffland home at 1 p.m. and at 2 p.m. in the North Kickapoo Lutheran church, the Rev. Arthur Vorhes officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery.