Dr. James J. Reed (1817-1892)

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Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 11/25/2014 at 07:31:59

Maquoketa Excelsior, July 8, 1892

Bellevue Leader:

Dr. Reed, though not feeling well, started early Tuesday morning in company with his son, Julien, in a two-horse buggy, to visit a patient on Spruce creek, four miles north of town. When about three miles on their way, Julien noticed that his father was unable to handle the horses which were spirited and took the lines unto his own hands. He saw at once that something was wrong. He repeatedly spoke to his father, but response came from the lips that were sealed forever. Turning his horses homeward he had to hold his father to keep him from falling out of the buggy. He also had to draw tight lines on the eager and fretful team to keep them from running away. He soon reached home and the stricken doctor was carried into his own house and placed in bed. Doctors Millar and Fowler were summoned, but the patient was a dying man and in the last stages of apoplexy, and beyond the reach of medical skill. He did not seem to recognize anybody or anything, though wife and son frantically appealed to him for some sort of recognition. He lingered a little over an hour and then passed away peacefully and quietly without showing any signs whatever of pain or suffering. His people who have died have all gone the same way and he had been anticipating the fatal stroke for some time. He would have been 56 years old the 22d of this month. A wife, son, one brother and two sisters survive him to mourn his loss.

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