SIMPSON, Samuel, died 1882, age 76

SIMPSON, BRANNAN, WOOD

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 5/25/2021 at 20:22:48

"The Fairfield Tribune"
Thursday, February 9, 1882
Page 3, Column 5

THE COUNTY AT LARGE.

… Pleasant Plain.

… Samuel SIMPSON, a resident of Penn township, was interred in the Friends' graveyard, last Sunday. He was in the 79th year of his age, and was well known in this part of the county His death was unexpected. Friday evening, before retiring, he read Gulteau's trial, and died the next morning about two o'clock, of heart disease. He leaves a large family to mourn his loss.

Eloy Hume.

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Note: Iowa Cemetery Records note that he was 76 years old, not 79 years. He was married twice, to Mary BRANNAN and to Eliza Jane WOOD.