John M. Fulton (1838-1918)

FULTON, MCKINSEY, HOSS, WRIGHT

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 11/20/2008 at 11:31:20

Maquoketa Excelsior-Record
January 1, 1918

Christian Life Ends by Stroke
John. M. Fulton Succumbs to Stroke of Paralysis While at Dinner Friday of Last Week.

John M. Fulton suffered a stroke of paralysis at the home of A. C. McKinsey Friday noon, December 28, while at the dinner table and at 7:45 p.m. he passed peacefully away.

Just six weeks ago to the day the deceased and his wife arrived in this city to spend the winter with their daughter, Mrs. McKinsey, and the family, and he had been enjoying better health during this tie than he had been for many months, and his death came as a shock to all of the family. While sitting at the table he had been joking and having a good time not three minutes before, when it was noticed that something was wrong with him. He could not use his left arm and he attempted to talk and by motions tried to make himself understood. He was carried to a couch where he at once fell into a stupor from which he never aroused. His body, accompanied by Mrs. Fulton and A. C. McKinsey, was taken back to the old home at Sparta, Ill., where it will be buried today, which had he lived, would have been his eightieth birthday.

Mr. Fulton was born Jan. 1, 1838, in southern Illinois near where he had always lived. He was united in marriage to Miss Jennie M. Hoss on November 6, 1862, and to this union were born seven children, four of whom are still living; Edward of Kildare, Okla.; Will of Salina, Kans.; Mrs. A. C. McKinsey of this city and Mrs. L. A. Wright of Muskogee, Okla.

Very seldom is a couple allowed the great privilege accorded these aged people. Over five years ago they celebrated their golden wedding anniversary, and while he lacked but four days of being eighty, his life companion who is left to mourn his departure, is in her 79th year the now desolate home to which she goes is the same home they moved to when they were first married over 55 years ago and from which they had never moved.

The deceased was a member of the Reformed Presbyterian church of Sparta, and the funeral services will be conducted by Rev. Smiley, who has been his resident pastor for more than 40 years. Thus has ended a quiet, noble and conscientious Christian life, a man who lived the life he professed, and who is now with his Maker awaiting the coming of his loved ones.