Erick B. Erickson (1824-1898)

ERICKSON

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:13

From Nevada Representative July 27th, 1898 (page 2)

HUXLEY

Last Thursday afternoon about four o'clock the angel of death quietly entered our little town, and gained admission to one of our most peaceful and happy home, where it claimed as its victim, one of our most beloved and respected citizens, Mr. Eric B. Ericson. The summons was rather unexpected to the host of relatives and friends of the decease. Mr. Ericson had been rather poorly in health for some time, but none seemed to surmise that the disease would so quickly conquer its victim. On the day of his death he was up and about seeming to have partly recovered from his late attack. At dinner he partook with his family. To his friends, therefore, who had begun to entertain fond hopes of his recovery, the news was indeed shocking. Deceased was born in 1824 in Aalund, Norway, where he spent his boyhood and early manhood days. In the early sixties he resolved to cast his lot among the early pioneers of these western prairies. Arriving in this part of the state at the time when luxuries of these later years were unknown, he shared with the early settlers the many hardships of pioneer life. The work of breaking up these vast plains and converting them into the luxurious farms of the present day was not the result of a few weeks of months, but was only accomplished after years of unceasing toil and at the sacrifice of many things, which the more refined generation of the present deem necessities without which they could not live. The death of this worthy citizen reminds us that the early pioneers are being called away one by one; called to a better land, where comfort and happiness is not won through toil and sacrifice, but where everything is made ready for the grand and glorious feast. The earthly remains of the deceased were conducted to their last resting place in the Fieldburg cemetery by a large concourse of friends and relatives, among the latter being the wife and one daughter of deceased and his brother and two sisters. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Guttebo in the Fieldburg church of which deceased had been an ardent member since its organization.