John Law (1886)

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Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 10/25/2007 at 14:36:58

Winterset Madisonian - June 3, 1886
Winterset, Iowa
page 4

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We clip the following from the Washington County, Iowa, PRESS: John Law, for many years a resident in this place and region, died of lung diease last month, and was buried the 25th ult., in Colfax, California, among strangers. While his wife was visiting here a year or so ago he wrote telling her how fat he was suddenly getting. Her medical friends warned her against the next news: and sure enough in a few days came a telegram about his fearful hemorrhage. He never rallied from it. This family of four--two children--have been all over the pacific coast, flitting and lighting here and there, bird-like, then away--seeking health; and Wm. Blair fears their means have been utterly exhausted. An hour after John's death, his poor wife, over-worked and broken with cares and sorrows amid a strange people, fell under the power of nervous shock and remained unconscious ten days. John was a singularly shy, modest, almost womanly-modest man, intelligent, of fine tastes, with a restless disposition withal, and he loved to roam and change. He was liked by everybody who could get really acquainted with him, for he was morally clean-cut, high toned, and the soul of honor.

Mr. Law will be remembered in this city as a resident here for several years, where he carried on his business, that of jeweler.