Atkins, Jeremiah T. Hon. – Died 1895

ATKINS, STEVENS, LUCAS, SAWYER, RAYMOND

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 5/19/2024 at 21:00:44

Source: Decorah Republican Feb. 14, 1895 P 4 C 2

Death of Hon. Jeremiah T. Atkins.
A letter from Mrs. J. T. Atkins, dated Colton, Cal., Feb. 7th, informs us that her husband died on Saturday, Feb. 2d, at 2:26 p. m. She says “he seemed well in the morning, enjoyed his breakfast unusually well, and was about the dooryard during the forenoon giving directions as to work, occasionally sitting on the porch, then walking out again, showing no signs of illness until about one o’clock, when he came in troubled for breath, sat a little time outside, then said ‘I must lie down.’ He did so and only spoke once afterwards. He had been well all winter, and had said a number of times that this had been the most pleasant winter he ever knew.”
Mr. Atkins was an enterprising business man, a successful farmer, and acquired a handsome competence, which he handled with shrewdness and profit. During the last twenty years of his life he was a great traveler, usually spending his winters in southern climes and enjoying his income. When the railroad pushed on into South Dakota he made investments at Mitchell, and treated that as his summer home, and California, where he died, as his winter resort. He was married four times, and five children, by his second wife, survive him. These are Mrs. W. B. Stevens and Miss Amelia, of Charles City, Mrs. Frank Lucas, of St. Paul, Mrs. Will Sawyer, of Portland, Ore., and the only son Jay, who is a resident of California, in 1877 he married Mrs. Bessie Raymond, of Charles City, who has ever since been his companion in the fullest sense of the term, and who is now his sorrowing widow.