Decatur County Journal
January l0, l90l

'DEATH COMES QUICKLY'
ODIE EDMISTON Passes Away in Atchison, Kansas, Saturday.
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After an illness of only one day, ODIE EDMISTON passed away at 8:l0
Saturday evening at his hotel in Atchison, Kansas, where he was employed
as a cigar maker by the McClelland Cigar Co.

When awakened Saturday morning by a fellow workman, he complained of a
headache and requested that his employer be notified that he did not
feel well enough to work that day. In view of the poor health of MR.
EDMISTON during the past few months, his friends were not alarmed,
supposing his indisposition to be but temporary. At noon his cousin,
CLAUDE MOORE, and others visited his room and in answer to inquiries as
to his condition, were told by ODIE that he was feeling quite
well--better, if anything, than in the morning.

At l:30 p.m. the landlord of the hotel visited the cigar factory and in
apparent excitement requested some of the workmen to go to the house
with him as their friend appeared to be in a rather serious condition.
CLAUDE MOORE went to the sick room at once and was immediately followed
by E.B. McClelland who had stopped to call a physician. At that time
ODIE was unconscious, a condition in which he remained to the end,
despite the utmost efforts of the physicians and friends.

The remains were brought to Leon Sunday afternoon, accompanied by
Messrs. McClelland, Moore and Gardner, and funeral services held at the
home of his step-father, C.W. BECK, on north Main Street at 2:30 p.m.
the following day. Rev. W.H. Ilsley conducted the services at the
residence after which the K.P. Lodge, of which deceased was a member,
took charge of the remains and accompanied the funeral cortege to the
Leon Cemetery. At the grave a brass quartette softly played "God Be
With You Till We Meet Again", accompanied by a quartette of male voices,
and all that was mortal of 'DUTCH' EDMISTON was tenderly consigned to
the last long resting place.

Below is appended a short sketch of deceased, furnished by one who is
familiar with his brief life.
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ODIE EDMISTON was born in Decatur County, Iowa, on the l0th day of
September, l876. His father, JAMES H. EDMISTON, was a soldier in Co. I,
34th Regiment, Iowa Infantry, and died May 9, l879. He and ELLEN F.
HUFF were married in Decatur County, Iowa, September 30, l868, and to
this union only two of the children born lived to years of maturity.
Now only an elder brother is left, with the mother, to mourn the late
deceased. The mother lived in widowhood till her marriage to C.W. BECK
on November 24, l892.

ODIE EDMISTON was a young man of large acquaintance in Leon and was
highly esteemed as an honest, industrious model young man. Much more
could be said in praise of him, but the writer of this brief outline is
willing to trust the merits of the deceased to an impartial and unbiased
public.
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