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MRS. THERESA CAMPAU

Mrs. Theresa Campau, wife of Joseph Campau, died very suddenly day afternoon. December 22, 1884, at 5:30 o'clock, of apoplexy, aged seventy-two years. Mrs. Campau was quite active for one of her age, and Monday morning was feeling exceedingly well until 11 o'clock, when she was taken suddenly ill and never spoke again.

Deceased was one of the oldest settlers in Saginaw Valley, coming here with her father's family in 1823, when this country was a wilderness, the family coming in a birch bark canoe and breaking the ice as they went. Her father's name was Mashieo, and for a number of years he ran a ferry at South Saginaw. In 1836 she was married to Joseph Campau, who came here from Detroit as an Indian trader, with whom she has lived for the past forty-eight years. She leaves a husband and two daughters, Mrs. John Even and Mrs. Elgin Milligan, both of whom reside in this city, besides a number of grandchildren and great grandchildren. --Saginaw Herald.