Leon Reporter, Leon, Iowa
Thursday, July 3, l902

TRUMAN BAILEY died June 20, age 82 years, l0 months and 8 days.  MR. BAILEY, who has made his home with his son, F.G., for some twenty years, had been failling for the past year, but had kept up and around to the last.  He has a son and daughter living in Kalamazoo, Michigan.  He was a quiet, industrious man, who at all times attended strictly to his own affairs, and who was never known to speak ill of anyone.  He was respected by all who knew him.

MR. BAILEY was born in Monroe County, N.Y., in the town of Pittsfield, August l2, l8l9, and had been a consistent member of the M.E. Church for fifty years.

Funeral services were held from the house of his son, Saturday morning at ten o'clock, Elder S.V. Bailey preaching the funeral sermon.  Friends from Davis City and elsewhere were in attendance.

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