Noah Button's first wife died.

The evidence

• “Noah Button, who was a tanner and currier by occupation, settled in Rock county in 1857, and followed his trade and engaged to a limited extent in farming—owning some land—until his decease in 1904, at the advanced age of ninety-three years. He was twice married and had by his first wife, who died in 1844, besides our subject, a daughter, Mary Ellen, who is married to Mr. Joseph Simmons, of Milton Rock county, Wisconsin.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34e-biographical-5.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 580 / book p. 1064

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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