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Stephen Seymour (1888)

SEYMOUR

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 11/10/2007 at 16:00:47

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, August 3, 1888
Page 4

Death from Sun Stroke.

Mr. Stephen Seymour, of Jackson township, was overcome by a severe case of sun stroke while working in the field Tuesday last, and died before he could reach the house. He was a man apparently about fifty years of age, though we do not know exactly.
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Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, August 10, 1888
Page 4

Mr. Stephen Seymour, of Jackson township, who died last week, of sun stroke as it was supposed, is now believed to have been killed by the kick of a mule, as a closer examination of his body indicated.
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The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, August 2, 1888
Page 4, Column 4

A Sudden Death

Stephen Seymore of Jackson township died very suddenly last Thursday evening. He had been harrowing and plowing a piece of ground in the afternoon for a turnip patch. The day had been very hot, the thermometer making 110 degrees in the sun.

When the family that lives on the place and with which he boards called him to supper he told them he would be in in a few minutes. He did not come in at once and the family sat down and ate supper. After the meal was over the woman went out to the barn lot to see what the matter was and found Seymore on the ground behind one of his mules – dying. He had unhitched one mule and tied it up and had got the other partly unhitched when it is supposed that he was overcome by the heat and fell to the ground.

He was a bachelor and had no relatives in this county. His folks live in Chicago. He is said to have been in comfortable circumstances.

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