The remains of 19th‑century journalist Lisle Lester are being shipped from Queens Crematorium in New York City back to her native Wisconsin. The transfer was recorded on Friday, Oct. 16, 2026.
Lester was a pioneering writer who left Wisconsin in the 1800s to pursue journalism and later founded the state’s first magazine, The Badger State Monthly.
She died in Queens, where she was cremated, and her ashes are now on their way to her hometown.