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From the Nov. 27, 1888 Manitowoc County
Chronicle:
A Fatal Fall
Last Friday afternoon Mrs. Sechrist, wife
of Jacob Sechrist, a farmer living a few miles north of this
city, fell from a box upon which she was standing while engaged
in whitewashing the ceiling of a room in her house and her neck
was broken by the fall. She died in about a minute after her
fall. Shortly before she remarked to one of her family that the
work made her dizzy and the probability is that she fell in
consequence of dizziness. A physician was hastily summoned
after the accident but he could only banish the hope of anxious
friends that her condition was only that of unconsciousness by
informing them that life had been extinct for some time. A
number of neighbors and friends gathered to comfort and assist
the family whose sorrow had come so suddenly and overwhelmingly
upon them but no words could stifle their cry of lamentation or
check the flow of their tears. A devoted wife and fond mother
had passed over to the “Silent Land” with an
appalling suddenness that added to the poignancy of the grief
of the loved ones she had left. Mrs. Sechrist was an estimable
woman and a consistant Christian. Her maiden name was Magee and
she leaves several brothers and sisters as well as a husband
and children to mourn her untimely death. The funeral took
place at the Congregational church in this city yesterday
afternoon and was attended by a large concourse of neighbors
and friends.
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