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I A GOOD HAN GOVE I The funeral services |of Samuel Pis-r I brow took place yesterday at the 11 Christian ohruoh in Lewis♦ The eei *-1 man was preached by Rev A I Jones \ I of Atlantic, The attendance wee aob I large that the church could not ac-llcommodao them ail,and a number had 1 to remain on the outside The sot-I rowing friends had come to pay tneir I lust tribute of respect to their old 01 neighbor Samuel Disbrow has livedII m Lewis for almost half a century QI He was a man of rugged honesty,el*I ways loyal to his nieghbors and tjo ‘Mtbe community, and a man of whom ‘'[nothing discreditable oonid be said^ | He was a native of New York and ‘ came to Lewie in 1867 He was a 10 I biaokamith and owned and conducted’® I a shop in Lewis until a few years ago 3‘ [In 1864 he made a trip 'to Idaho and a lfc | letter written on the trip is fatill in fc“ I existenoe Ho tells of the enow being drifted in places from ten to fifteen feet deep He traveled over 800 miles, v [ without seeing a house and in that 101 distance saw but one white man, and ,n I he had a squaw wife and lived with 101 the Indana The letter waf wrtHeu to *■ [ hi8 faithful wife who preceded him I Into the great beyond by juit a^few [months The domeatio side'ot-Jdr llii*| brow's nature is strongly shown in lW | this letter, and he loquirea how they J0|are getting along with the building of he|the Bapt i»t chntoh- of which he yr as a m| member,p' | Mr Disbrow had not beeii, confined. Qy 1 to his bed bus was up and ajopud k® | On the day of his death he ate»hie ^ I dinner as usual and about four in the I afternoon was out in tbe yard, when bis daughter Mrs Adams saw that ‘*®[ something was wrong and went to his ne|aiBliiftOB aud he died in her arms ip'| He leaves three Living children t0° DoUmer S, who lives in Atlantic, Le* l itlvi E, of South Omaha, and Helen, ow I wife of Geo H Adams of Sidney, Iowa the [He leaves thirteen grandchildren and tob | two great grasdohildrea He is the dse | last Disbrow of his generation He pa. I was born June 31, 1833, and laoked )»rs| two months of completing his tighlf-als- Ueoond year He was a member of the kore | Masonic fraternity in which he had life | hold uoarly^eU the offices, and the rse. [services at the grave were oonduotefldud | by that order. , The sympathies of the
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Atlantic Semi Weekly Telegraph
Atlantic, Iowa, US
Tue, Apr 19, 1904
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