The above named died at his home at Blandinsville last night at 9 o'clock, aged 59 years, 2 months and 15 days. Funeral services will be held from the Baptist church at that place at 2 p.m. Wednesday, conducted by Rev. F. P. Douglass. he has been sick only four days, his ailment being of the nature of blood poisoning, thought to have been contracted while nursing his mother, who was buried Sunday. He leaves a wife, who was formerly a Miss Forrest of this city, and a sister of Mrs. A. W. Falkenthal, Mrs. Ed Stocker and Mrs. Sterling Simpson, and two children, a boy and a girl, aged 10 and 12 years respectively.

(Macomb Journal January 29, 1901, submitted by Matthew Ferricks)