Leon Reporter, Leon, Iowa
Thursday, August 2, l900

BENJAMIN F. HALL, a citizen of Green Bay Township since l859, died Monday, July 23, at 8:00 a.m. after a three weeks' illness with a carbuncle, which at last created a pressure on the nerves and brain, inducing coma and death. He was sixty-six years of age and had been an active and prominent citizen of the township until recent years, when his unusual weight combined with rheumatism had forced him to remain inactive. He leaves his wife, two sons and a daughter, with many friends made in the cause of an honorable and honored life.

He belonged to the Christian Church and Rev. Dyer of that denomination came from Decatur County and conducted the funeral services at his home, Tuesday at ll a.m. The funeral was a very large one, friends coming from Leon and other points at a distance, to show their respect for the deceased. The burial was in Green Bay Cemetery where his father and other relatives are lying. Thus closes the record of another of Clarke County's rugged, worthy pioneers who had reaped a good material reward for his labors and now enters into rest.

--OSCEOLA DEMOCRAT.

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