Kerstena (Nelson) Mathison (1853-1897)

NELSON, MATHISON

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 8/22/2013 at 22:50:36

From Nevada Journal October 26, 1897

Dropped Dead.

Sunday forenoon about eleven o'clock when Mrs. Bartel Mathison, living near McCallsburg, was sitting with her family she suddenly fell apparently lifeless and in a few minutes was dead. Heart trouble is supposed to have been the cause.

The funeral of Mrs. Bartel Mathison, who died very suddenly Sunday noon will be held today at the family residence three miles south of McCallsburg. Interment will be made in the Nevada cemetery.

Mrs. Bartel Mathison died suddenly Sunday about noon of heart trouble. She was sitting on the portico with her husband and daughter and fell over and expired without a sign or warning of approaching dissolution.