Potter, Samuel W. (Death)

POTTER

Posted By: Viv Reeves (email)
Date: 6/30/2006 at 10:27:05

From the Plymouth County, Iowa Register of Deaths, Volume 1:

Page: 57
Number: 673
Date of Report: Mar. 6, 1889

Name: Samuel W. Potter
Sex: Male
Color: White
Age: 50ys, 1 1/3ms, -- ds
Occupation: Farmer
Date of Death: Feb. 28, 1889
Marital Status: Married
Nativity: -- --
Where Born: Penn.
How long resident of this state: -- --
Place of Death: Elgin Township
Cause of Death: Heart disease
Complication: Asthma
Duration of Disease: Several months
Place of Burial: LeMars, Ia
Date of Burial: March 5, 1889
Name & Residence of Physician Returning Certificate: M. W. Richey, LeMars, Iowa
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Alton Democrat of Mar 9, 1889

S. W. Potter, whom we mentioned last week as being quite ill has since died. He as buried last sunday at LeMars.
~NOTE:
(Found his family in the 1885 Iowa census of Elgin Twp Plymouth county - S. W. Potter 47, born in PA; wife Rebecca age 36, children - L. K. age 17, Elisabeth age 15, Walter age 12, Grace age 9, Daniel age 7, Beng F. age 4 and Mamie age 1.)