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Unidentified Obituary from FindAGrave.com
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Mrs. Orrilla (Roice) Child died May 23 at 11:40 o'clock p.m., at the residence of her son, James E. Child, of Waseca, aged eighty-three years, two months and twenty-one days. She was born in Jefferson County, New York, March 2, 1820. Her father, Enoch Roice, was of Scotch blood, and served in the American army during the Revolutionary struggle. Her mother, Sarah Palmenter, was of English descent. Both parents came from the state of Connecticut to the state of New York soon after the Revolutionary War. Mrs. Child's grandfather was also a Revolutionary soldier.
She married Zabina Child, Feb. 14, 1833, and resided with her husband in the down of DeKalb, St. Lawrence county. They emigrated to Ohio in 1834, making their home in Medina county. They afterwards went back to St. Lawrence county, then returned to Ohio and spent a year, and then came west as far as Wisconsin, where they resided until 1862. Mrs. Child then came to Waseca county where she made her home most of the time. The latter part of July, 1892, she went to Nebraska to visit her daughter. About the time of her journey she contracted a cold, and was quite sick while there. She returned to Waseca about the first of December, and gradually declined from that time until her death. Dropsy set in a short time before her death, and although she suffered much pain at times, her mind remained clear, and the close of life was a dropping to sleep without an apparent struggle. She reared a family of seven children - five sons and two daughters - five of whom survived her.
Gravestone in Woodville Cemetery,
Waseca, Waseca County, MN
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