Wentworth, Royal 1835 - 1889

WENTWORTH

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 11/8/2014 at 13:53:02

Iowa Plain Dealer December 5, 1889, P3 C4

SUDDEN DEATH.

Last Friday afternoon Stephen Hamilton went to the blacksmith shop of Mr. Royal Wentworth, just across the street in front of Ernst & Flood’s store, and found Mr. Wentworth dead in his shop. We understand that his custom was to have his dinner brought to him at his shop which had been done as usual, and he had partaken of it. We do not learn of anyone who was at the shop after then till he was found though there was a report that one of Mrs. Crapser’s boys was at the shop and left some work though Mr. Wentworth was found lying on the floor the boy thinking he had been drinking. The deceased was about fifty-four years old, was an industrious, hard-working mechanic, but very fleshy, weighing about 340 pounds. His death was probably the result of apoplexy or perhaps from the accumulation of fatty substance about the heart. He leaves a widow with eleven children to mourn his sudden demise. All sympathize with them in this unexpected bereavement.