GWIN, Elias 1834 - 1891

GWIN

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler, Volunteer (email)
Date: 4/14/2013 at 16:25:25

DIED.—At his home near Brooklyn, Saturday morning July 25th, of stomach trouble, Elias Gwin, aged 56 years, 5 months and 28 days.

The funeral services were held at the Methodist church Tuesday afternoon, attended by members of the Ancient Order of United Workmen of which Mr. Gwin was a member, and a large concourse of friends and neighbors and relatives who came for many miles around.

The casket and chancel were tastefully decorated with cut flowers and potted plants. Rev. J. A. Boatman conducted the services assisted by E. Happy and Dr. I. N. Busby and the church choir.

Elias Gwin had lived in this vicinity forty years, respected and beloved by all who knew him, and appreciated most by those who knew him best. He had the tender loving affection of a mother combined with the noble generous impulses of a father, and was most happy when doing something to contribute to the comfort and happiness of others. These beautiful traits indicated a close relation and fellowship with his Creator who is the embodiment of love and fatherly affection, and that he was one of “the noblest works of God—an honest man.”

The pallbearers were L. M. Bennett, W. T. Holmes, W. T. Sharp, T. Rainsburg, James Manatt, Henry Cummings, Joe Flaig and John Frazer.

He leaves a wife, one daughter and three sons to mourn his death; and they have the full sympathy of our entire community.

THE AUTOPSY

Doctors Ormiston and Landes performed an autopsy and we print the copy handed us by Dr. Ormiston:

Report of Doctors Ormiston and Landes, who performed an autopsy on the remains of E. Gwin, July 25, 91. The stomach displayed softening of the coats, more marked in the region of the lower part of the large curvature; the pyloric region on the contrary manifested more consistence and thickness, indicating a prolonged congested state of the organ. The liver was found to be much enlarged from increased development of the interstitial tissue, hardened on section and in color a dark olive green, while the gall-bladder was distended with an opaque fluid to many times its normal size.
----A. C. Landes, M. D.
----C. F. Ormiston, M. D.

Source: Unknown newspaper clipping found in scrapbook belonging to my great grandmother.