Sutton, Frederick Edward 1844-1921

SUTTON

Posted By: Geo Clinton (email)
Date: 8/5/2016 at 09:16:47

STORM LAKE PILOT TRIBUNE - Fri, Jan 14, 1921 - Buena Vista college will receive approximately $35,000 and the aged and infirm of Buena Vista county the same amount from the estate of Frederick D Sutton, according to the terms of the will which have been made public.

With the exception of two small bequests, one to the son of a niece in Vermont and another to a friend, H.J. Sutton, the whole estate amounting to approximately $110,000 will be divided into three parts. A third goes to Buena Vista college, a third to the Christian home at Council Bluffs, and the balance is to be used in establishing a trust fund the income of which is be used for the aged and infirm of Buena Vista county.

Mr Sutton was one of the real pioneers of Buena Vista county coming here in 1872 from Vermont. Mrs Sutton died in 1889. As there were no children, Mr Sutton lived a rather lonely life from that time on. He stayed close to his farm and improved it.

Since his death it has become known that during this time of his life he spent a great deal of his income helping various worthy causes. At the time of his death he was paying expenses for some poor girls at a negro college in the south.

On Tuesday Jan 4, Mr Sutton was brought to a local hospital suffering with pneumonia. Very reluctantly he left the farm that he had lived on for so long, as though he had a premonition that he was never to return to it. His old age and the fact that his case had come to be serious gave him little chance for recovery and he died on the following day.

His funeral was held from the Lakeside Presbyterian church on Saturday morning. He was laid by the side of his wife in the Storm Lake cemetery under a beautiful stone erected in her memory.