Leon Reporter, Leon, Iowa
Thursday, July l7, l902

J.R. FRISBY, better known to the people throughout the surrounding country as plain "JACK" FRISBY, passed away Tuesday evening, July 8, at his home at Andover, after an illness of but a few days, resulting from a blood clot in the main artery of one of his lower limbs.

He leaves a wife, four sons and four daughters, to mourn his death. The eldest son, WILLIAM, is in the lumber business at Chicago, R.H., or DICK, is general superintendent of the Kansas City Plant of Swift & Co., and WALTER has been associated in business with his father for a number of years at Andover and will continue there.

"Uncle JACK" FRISBY was born at Edgefield Village, South Carolina, July 2, l826, and was at his death, 76 years and 6 days old.

When a young man yet in his teens, he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, and was there engaged with his father in the hotel and theatrical business. At the age of 22, he went to St. Louis, Mo., and after a number of years' residence there, eventually moved to Boothtown, Iowa, where he engaged in general merchandising. There he remained for two years and then removed to Davis City, where he continued the general merchandise trade for ten or twelve years, finally moving to Andover where he had since remained continuously in business.

Much could be written of him for his was a life of activity and he had but little use for a drone. While at times rough in speech, it was but from the mouth outward, for at heart he was kind and generous to a fault, always ready to extend a helping hand to all in need without any ostentatious display of charity.

No higher eulogy can be paid him than to say he was a diamond in the rough -- one of Nature's true noblemen, and the entire family have our sincerest sympathy in their sad bereavement. Peace to his ashes.

--DAVIS CITY LARIAT.

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