Frank W. Drees died 1871

DREES

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 4/22/2016 at 22:04:18

Dubuque Daily Herald – Jan. 4, 1871 Page 4
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Death of Frank W. Drees
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The Great Reaper has no respect for age – he cuts down young and old alike. It has been but a few weeks since we recorded the death of a young man whose years were full of hope and promise, and now we must note again death dealing with the young. Frank W. Drees, the subject of this sketch, was in the 22d year of his age and was a native of Boston, Mass. It can hardly be said that he was cut down without premonition or warning, for he was subject to spasmodic spasms which always entails a near probability, and ever present possibility, of death. These fits have come up[on him by times more or less startling and serious in their effects; and so it was thus on last Monday morning, when attempting to rise from bed, he fell back on his pillow a corpse; having the power merely to cry out faintly ere his lips were sealed forever, “Mother, I am dying.”

The deceased had resided here about 14 years. He had been for some half dozen years a clerk in the store of Vaugh & Hoare. He leaves a mother, one brother and a sister to mourn his sudden taking off.

He will be buried from St. Mary’s Church today.