Ruffridge, Andrew 1840 – 1897

RUFFRIDGE

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 5/19/2024 at 21:00:43

Source: Decorah Republican Apr. 8, 1897 P 1 C 2

THE REAPER BUSY
Three Sudden Deaths from Appoplexy in as many days.
THREE COMMUNITIES SHOCKED
Decorah, Freeport and Burr Oak visited without warning and Old Residents taken.

ANDREW RUFFRIDGE, of Freeport. The death of Mr. Andrew Ruffridge, Friday afternoon was another startling evidence that death often walks close beside a human life. His body was found about six o'clock lying face downward, alongside his woodshed. About 3 o’clock he was at the village store, and left after making an expression that he thought of going a fishing. The presence of his fishpole and line by his side indicates that death came to him instantaneously while was adding the line to the pole.
Coroner Gibson was called to act in the case, but after hearing the stories, and viewing the body, took only such evidence as would bring out the cause of death. Dr. Barfoot accompanied him, and made a careful examination of the body, sufficient to satisfy himself that death resulted from a natural cause. Upon his testimony, the jury— consisting of G. W. Kirkland, Heber Robinson and J. H. Hargreaves, rendered this verdict:—
The said jurors on their oath do say that Andrew Ruffridge came to his death on the 6th day of April, A. D. 1897, from hemorrhage of the brain, caused by calcareous degeneration of the blood vessels of the brain.
Mr. Ruffridge was an old resident of the county, born in 1840, and was nearly fifty-seven years old.
Funeral services will be hold at Freeport, Saturday afternoon at ono o’clock.

Transcriber’s Note: Find a Grave shows he was born March 15, 1840 and is buried in Phelps Cemetery.

Phelps Cemetery
 

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