As late as 1843, a Circuit Court retinue accompanied the judge from one county seat to another; a poor sickly barber of that retinue died.

The evidence

• “A pioneer relates the circumstances connected with the death of a poor sickly barber, who traveled from one county seat to another with the Circuit Court retinue which, as late as 1843, accompanied His Honor. " The next morning," says the relator, "when the body was prepared for burial, the messenger who had been dispatched to a settlement about twelve miles away for a minister to give solemnity to the occasion, returned and reported that he had failed to find any such person.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/14-rock-county-ch08-janesville.md, PDF p. 529 / book p. 533

  Butterfield, C. W., et al. The History of Rock County, Wisconsin: its early settlement, growth, development, resources, etc. Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1879. Cornell University Library via the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/cu31924028871585.

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