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■ 'iMtiti HnvKTt th* Editor / (hr I'rerjiorl I{epuhii\in:J.eoh fjOMgaiUl (} . K lltlH’i', r 0 i*SG niiitv, Iowa, are visiti ig here, M sr M ta Croheiniller, o. V.uton, Ii.wa, vi-itiug friends here. Peter JilurJiiig, of town, is visiting hero. Another oli ftottlor gone Mi’. .Samuel .1. Davis died mt hi-. home in this village on the 2flt.li of D : •eiubur, after three week’s sickness. H i was born in Crawford County, Pa., in 1822, afterward lived at Springfield, £ i. County, one year and then came to .■s.epheUHon County, 111. lie laid out this vil.ugu und wuh its lirat town clerk, and for a numlier of years was assessor. Mr. D ivis was one ol the oldest settlers, Miid in the early days- taught school at per month and boarded among the larmers and had to go as far jus three and four miles through the snow drifts,I and then thought he was getting good wages. Mr. Davis was self-educated, having no chance to get an education 1 except by his own study and hard work.! Ho was u man that always took a great interest iu education,always eueouragiug | the young and giving theui go.al advice, j Iu the death of Mr Davis the community loses a good citizen, the wife a kind hmuund. Marrio I on the 1st of Jan.,| M ss Drown, of Dikola, to F. W, Mack,I of i Jiis plaice. T .ey left for Cliiougo the tame evening on their wedding tour.
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Freeport Republican
Freeport, Illinois, US
Sat, Jan 06, 1883
Page 5
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