BERGQUIST, Alex 1848 - 1905

BERGQUIST, PAINE, NOBLE

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 5/25/2021 at 20:23:28

"The Fairfield Ledger"
Wednesday, October 18th, 1905
Page 6, Column 3

Found Dead in His Bed.

Monday morning about 7 o'clock when Mrs. Alex. BERGQUIST of this city called her husband for breakfast he made no response and upon going to his bedside she found that he was dead. Dr. Bean, who was summoned immediately, said that death resulted from heart disease and that life had not been extinct long. Mr. BERGQUIST occupied a room alone and members of the family heart him cough about 3 o'clock. He had been in ill health for some time, but was feeling much better and brighter since his return to this city from Lawton, Okla., about two weeks ago. Alex. BERGQUIST was born in Sweden November 30th, 1848, and came to the United States in 1867. He came to Fairfield more than twenty-five years ago, and was married here, October 9th, 1885, to Mina PAINE, who survives him. He was a blacksmith by trade and operated a shop in this city for many years, or until his removal to Oklahoma. He had considerable inventive genius and was the inventor of a sulky plow of merit and which had an extensive sale. Mr. BERGQUIST was a man of the strictest honest and of exemplary habits. Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon at the home of Mrs. C. E. NOBLE, where Mr. BERGQUIST died. They were conducted by Rev. W. Luther Bright.

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"The Fairfield Ledger"
Wednesday, October 18, 1905
Page 9, Column 1

Local Miscellany

... C. G. BERGQUIST, a brother, and his son, C. A., Chicago, were called here yesterday by the funeral of Alex. BERGQUIST. ...

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"The Fairfield Tribune"
Wednesday, October 18, 1905
Page 7, Column 3

A Sudden Death.

Alex. BERGQUIST died at the home of Mrs. C. E. Noble in this city Monday morning, aged fifty-six years. Mr. BERGQUIST had not been in good health for some time but no serious results were anticipated and great was the shock at the suddeness (sic) of his departure.

Mr. and Mrs. BERGQUIST have been residents of Oklahoma the past five years and only recently returned to Fairfield, since which time they have been at home with Mrs. BERGQUIST's sister, Mrs. C. E. NOBLE.

Deceased has been a member of the English Lutheran church of this city since 1896 and funeral services were held from the home of Mrs. NOBLE conducted by Rev. Luther Bright. A wife, one sister and a brother are left to mourn his loss.

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Note: Buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Fairfield, IA, in Lot Old.P.033, the same lot as wife Elmina who died in 1920. He is on a monument with Mina's parents while she shares a monument with her sister, Lena NOBLE.