THOMAS E. CUMMINGS.

CUMMINGS, MERRITT, ARTHUR, JEFFRIES, JENUS, HANKS

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Date: 3/29/2002 at 19:10:08

Decatur County Journal
Thursday, September 20, l9l7

THOMAS E. CUMMINGS was born in Fredonia, Ind., May 28, l853 and passed away at Davis City, Iowa, September llth, l9l7.

August 29th he fell from a tree while gathering apples and suffered internal injuries which caused his death, after eleven days of suffering. All that could be done to ease his suffering was done. Dr. Willard Jeffries came Friday from Chicago, with the intention of performing an operation in the hope of saving his life but he found the patient's condition was too serious for it to be undertaken.

MR. CUMMINGS removed with his parents, to Decatur County in the spring of l856. He was united in marriage to MISS ANNA MERRITT, August 29, l875. The day of his accident was the forty-third anniversary of their marriage.

To them were born five children, four of whom with the widowed mother survive, as follows: ALBERT B., Kansas City, Mo.; JOHN ARTHUR, Greybull, Wyo.; MRS. C. JEFFRIES, Chicago, Ill.; and CECIL G., of this city. The oldest child died in infancy. Two brothers and one sister also mourn his loss: W. JENUS and J.R. CUMMINGS, of Davis City and MRS. MARY HANKS, of Pomona Kan.

After his marriage, MR. CUMMINGS engaged in farming near this city, moving to town in l902.

In the death of MR. CUMMINGS, the community loses one of our best citizens and most exemplary men. He was a kind and indulgent husband and father and a loyal friend. He will be sadly missed.

Early in life he united with the Baptist Church, but later became a member of the Christian Church, in l883. He was a member of the I.O.O.F. and Rebekah Lodges.

Funeral services were held Wednesday p.m. at 2:30 at the M.E. Church, Wm. J. Campbell, the Christian Minister, officiating. Interment was in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery. The I.O.O.F. had charge of the services from the church to the grave, where they went through the ritualistic ceremony. The floral remembrances were many and beautiful.

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