Jan Marshall Fox calls the home of her great-grandparents a ?touchstone.? ?Every time I?m in the neighborhood and drive past it, I think about how it used to be.? That corner house at 201 S. Mills St. was torn down by J.H. Findorff & Son on Wednesday to make way for a day care center for the children of nearby Meriter Hospital employees. Fox, who turned 78 on Sunday, said the house belonged to her great-grandparents, Henry and Ella Pickford, who sold their Monticello farm and moved to Madison around 1887 so their two daughters could attend UW-Madison. The emphasis on education has continued through the generations, and Fox notes her daughter, Erica Fox Gehrig, was the fourth generation of women in her family to graduate from UW.
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