LAWRENCE CASTER

CASTER, SEARS, BIDDISON, JOHNSTON, HYATT, FROST

Posted By: Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert (email)
Date: 5/13/2002 at 19:36:55

Decatur County Journal
Thursday, April 28, l92l

'Lawrence Caster Died Last Saturday of Blood Poisoning.'

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After being in a very critical condition for several days, LAWRENCE CASTER passed away last Saturday morning at the Leon Hospital near ten o'clock. The funeral was held Monday afternoon from the Brethren Church and interment followed in the Leon Cemetery.

MR. CASTER's death came as a result of a carbuncle that started upon the back of his neck at the base of his brain. Finally it became infected and MR. CASTER became very ill. On Sunday, April l7th, he was placed in a sled and brought to the hospital in Leon for an operation in the hope of saving his life. Neighbors got out and shoveled through the snow drifts that blocked the road that day that MR. CASTER could be taken through. The operation was performed that night and MR. CASTER lingered in a critical condition until the following Saturday when death came. He was a highly respected and well known citizen. His death is a great shock to all.

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LAWRENCE CASTER, son of JACOB and CATHERINE CASTER, was born in Mi(??)ville, Indiana, February ll, l860 and died at the Leon Hospital April 23, l92l, at the age of 60 years, (?) months and l2 days. At the age of four years he moved with his parents to Iowa. He has lived in and near Leon the remainder of his life except a year spent in Arkansas.

He was married March 22, l88(?) to ANNA G. SEARS. To this union were born three children, CLARA, FRANK and MRS. BERT BIDDISON. MRS. BIDDISON preceded him in death about a year and one-half ago. Besides his family he leaves a little granddaughter, ANNA VIOLA BIDDISON. He also leaves his aged mother and one brother, MR. JOHN CASTER, and two sisters, MRS. MATTIE JOHNSTON and MRS. L.A. HYATT, all of Leon, Iowa, except MRS. HYATT, of Mound Valley, Kansas. Two sisters, MRS. NORA FROST and a little sister, LOUISA ANN, preceded him. He leaves a host of relatives and friends to mourn his departure.

He united with the Church of the Brethren about thirty years ago, and later came into the Brethren Church when it was first organized, as a charter member. He lived a faithful member of his church, having served as treasurer of the Crown Chapel Church for a number of years and having served on the soliciting committee when it was built. He was a man who went his own way quietly among men saying little. Were his epitaph left to his neighbors, it would be "Here lies the mortal remains of an honest man." There is no nobler.

The funeral service was held at the Leon Brethren Church by the Pastor, Rev. G.T. Ronk on Monday afternoon, April 25, l92l at 2:30 o'clock. Interment was in the Leon Cemetery.

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