Shook, Martin L. 1820 – 1896

SHOOK, GILLETT

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Date: 5/22/2024 at 16:07:23

Iowa Plain Dealer August 7, 1896, FP, C6

DIED.
At his residence five miles west of Brighton at 20 minutes past eleven o’clock July 28, 1896, Martin L. Shook, in his 76th year. Mr. Shook was born in Warren, Trumbull county, Ohio, on the 27th day of August, 1820. His death came very sudden although not having been very stout during the summer. Monday he was feeling much better than usual in the evening milked two cows and attended to his usual chores, retired about half-past nine o’clock, After lying down he complained of being too warm, then a severe pain in the head and sickness at the stomach, vomiting some which was slightly tinged with blood. Resting more easily he said he would go to sleep, and in a few minutes was snoring. Mrs. Shook went to him and feeling alarmed called up the two men from another room. He made a distressed cough and breathed but a few times and was gone.
Mr. Shook was an active business man throughout life. He crossed the plains with an ox team in 1840 to California and was also active in the mining camps of Colorado about 1859-60. Then returning east made his home in Missouri, engaging in the agricultural implement and hardware business for a number of years and came to Colorado in 1881 to make his permanent home, where he has had the respect and high regard of all who knew him. He leaves a wife and three daughters to mourn his loss, one daughter living in Missouri, one in Texas and one in Denver. The funeral services were held at 11 a. m. Thursday at the family residence. Services conducted by Rev. A. F. Heltman. The remains were interred in Elmwood cemetery.—Brighton(Col.) Register.
Martin L. Shook was well known to the old settlers of this county. He was among the first to locate in the county his location being the ground north of Market street east of the Granger road west of the Gillett farm and extending north to second street. His residence was located near where Owen’s ware house and tub factory stands. The barn on the south side nearly opposite the Van Slyke barn was built by him near where O’Malley’s store stands. It is all that remains of his work among us. He was an enterprising, energetic man, a law-abiding citizen and a splendid neighbor. His wife and the wife of Edmond Gillett were sisters.