William Warren Sheffield (1863-1885)

SHEFFIELD

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 1/17/2011 at 20:40:59

From Story County Watchman April 17, 1885

SUDDEN DEATH:--On Saturday evening, Wm. Sheffields and a brother, sons of Joseph Sheffield, were engaged in plowing on their fathers farm, Howard township, and, after quitting, work, was suddenly taken ill. The family were absent except a couple of children, and he sent them to a neighbor for assistance, but before they arrived he was dead. It was supposed to be from some kind of a fit, and as it comes to us as an epileptic one.