Carpenter, Mead A. (Died 1902)

CARPENTER

Posted By: Linda Ziemann (email)
Date: 8/30/2005 at 19:55:48

LeMars Sentinel newspaper
Dated February 17, 1902

SUDDEN CALL
M. A. Carpenter, a well known traveling man, who has reside in this city for the past thirteen years died very suddenly at his home on Clark street on Saturday evening. Heart disease was the cause of death. Mr. Carpenter had been in his usual health of late and was around town all day on Saturday and was feeling remarkably well and in good spirits. After supper he walked up town to get his mail at the post office and on returning at the house a little after seven o’clock was seized with an attack of the heart. He asked his wife to call Dr. Shepard who lives across the street, but before she could do so Mr. Carpenter fell over and expired.

Mr. Carpenter had complained at times lately about his heart troubling him but never apprehended anything serious. He was strong and rugged and his appallingly sudden death is a great shock to his family and their many friends.

Mead A. Carpenter was a native of Kean, New Hampshire, and was fifty-three years of age. He was married in 1873. He leaves a widow and one son, Edward Carpenter, of this city.

His son was in St. Louis at the time of his father’s death and arrived home this morning.

Mr. Carpenter has been a resident of LeMars for the past thirteen years. He engaged in the grocery business on coming to LeMars. For the past nine years he has traveled for the Gehlen Milling company and was well known and popular throughout the northwest.

The funeral will be held at the Methodist church at 2 p.m. Tuesday. The services will be in charge of Giblem lodge A. F. and A. M. of which the deceased was a member.
[Date of death, Saturday, Feb. 15, 1902, per this article]

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