GEORGE J. BULL 1880 -1906

BULL, SEWARD

Posted By: Mary Durr (email)
Date: 8/25/2003 at 19:32:58

GEORGE J. BULL

On Monday evening while returning from Postville to his home in Ludlow township with a neighbor, Conrad Goeke, when near the Bray farm this side of Myron, George J. Bull asked Mr. Goeke to let him get out. Mr. Bull clambered out and scarcely had his feet touched terra firma till he fell to ground, his head striking some obstacle and bruising it severely. He was taken into a neighboring house where he died a half hour later without regaining consciousness. Death is attributed to the bursting of a blood vessel and not to the fall breaking his neck as was first reported. Rumor has it that in early life he was given a privileged education and fitted for the law and his use of language in conversation would seem to lend some foundation of fact to this claim, though his life during many years in this section has been given over largely to dissipation which dulled an otherwise bright intellect. He was born in Watertown, New York, Sept. 28, 1880 and at the time of his death was aged 69 years, 8 months and 7 days. His wife, one daughter, Mrs. Belle Seward, of Minneapolis, and a brother, Colin Bull, of Illinois, survive him.

The funeral was held from the Bethel U. B. Church yesterday, Rev. Montgomery officiating. Interment in the Minert cemetery.