He lived in Bayfield, Wisconsin the last 50 years of his life, i.e. since 1894. “During the lumbering days here he was employed in a sawmill and later settled on a farm in the Town of Russell. He was a veteran of the Spanish American War and a member of the Modern Woodman of America lodge. In 1900 he married Luella Calking, who survives him, together with one son, Hira, one daughter Mrs. Faith Gustafson and one grandchild, Sharon Lynn Soper, all of Bayfield; Tow brothers, J. H. and Lloyd Soper and one sister, Mrs. Dora Schutti, all of Couer D’Alene, Idaho.”1671 Claude was a Pvt 4 WI Inf.384