Adelaide Mabel Walker Magee Adelaide
was issued a teaching certificate in 1884. She was highly regarded in
the community and worked in the women’s suffrage movement and the
Women’s Christian Temperance Union. She was one of the founders of the
Shawano Women’s Club, an organizing regent of the Wausau Daughters of
the American Revolution Chapter and was active in the First
Presbyterian Church of Shawano. She is buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in
Shawano, WI.
Margaret Prehn Nielsen writes: Grandma and
Grandpa Magee lived two doors from us in Wausau. I was only six years
old when she died. She suffered from heart disease and was bedridden
for a few years. I recall sitting on her bed in their home while
Grandma read to me – hours on end. She also sang many hymns. These old
favorite hymns still are with me today. I have always felt close to
her. I think that my mother and Grandma Magee were very close and I
learned a lot about Grandma Magee from my mother as I grew up. My
mother and her mother traveled a great deal, including places like
Washington, D.C., Arkansas, Texas, Yellowstone Park, the Grand Canyon
and California when my mother was growing up.
