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The Sac Sun
Sac City, Sac Co. Iowa


February 21,1901

DIED SUDDENLY OF APOPLEXY.
Thomas Deremo, an Aged Resident of Wall Lake Township Gone

Thomas Deremo died at his home in north Wall Lake township at nine o'clock Thursday evening, February 14, 1901, of apoplexy. He was sitting by the stove shelling corn and fell from his chair, dying almost instantly. His age was 80 years, 3 months and 27 days. The funeral was held at the Pleasant Prairie church on Sunday at noon. Rev. Issac N. Aldrich, of Orion, near Detroit, Mich., preached from Psalm 23-4 and Rev. Rufus Hayden, himself past 80 years, a minister of the Freewill Baptist church, made approiate remarks and offered prayer. The remains were interred in the Ferguson Cemetery.
Thomas Deremo was born in Jefferson county, New York, October 18, 1830 . He moved with his parents to St. Lawrence
county, New York where he married Miss Hannah E. Parkhurst. Six children were born to them, two of whom only are liv-
ing, namely: Mrs. Anna Straight, of Sac City, and Joseph L. Deremo, of Jackson, Wis. The subject of this sketch, with his family , moved from New York in 1852 to Beloit, Wis. where his wife died on June 1, 1855. On December 4, 1857 he married Miss Mary Spencer, in Wisconsin. Five children were born to them and three survive, namely: John S. Deremo and Ella McClintick, of Wall Lake Township, and Wm. H. Deremo, of Pettis, Iowa. In the fall of 1872 he moved with his family to Sac county, Iowa, living on the Eugene Criss farm for two years, when he located on the farm he purchased in Wall Lake township, which since had been his home. The decedent was converted in 1857 and united with the Baptist Church, of which he remained a faithful and consistant member until death. He had the reputation of being a man of honor, uprightness and
integrity.

Licensed to wed
Clerk of the District Court Geo. B. Perkins issued licenses to wed the
past week to the following persons:
--February 14
Hank Johnson, age 26 and Jennie Tebben age 20.
--February 16
Frank P. King, age 28 and Edith A. wood age 29.
Grant Orr, age 32 and Anna M. Schroeder, age 20.
Bert A. Brown, age 28 and Margaret J. Maxwell, age 22.
--February 18-Gust H. Peterson age 35, and Ellen Peterson, age 21
Carl W. Billings, age 23, and Augusta C. Lindblad.



The Schaller Herald
Schaller, Sac Co. Iowa

February 7, 1901

--Uncle Isaac MILL is quite low and there is no hopes of his recovery, and the end is looked for at any time.
--Mrs. Mary MILL is quite sick this week with the grip and other complications.

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Feb 14,1901

--E.C. and Geo. A. MILL came over from Ida Grove last Friday afternoon to see their father who, it was thought could not possibly live thru the night.
--Mr. & Mrs. DUNLAP, friends, visit Isaac MILL.
--Uncle Isaac MILL is still alive and is apparently about as last week. The writer called to see him Tuesday morning when he seemed in good spirits and glad to see callers. It is only a matter of a few days, however, when the thread of life will be broken. Mr. MILL is about eighty four years of age.

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Feb 28,1901

--Uncle Isaac MILL had a sinking spell Saturday and it did not seem possible that he could survive the night, but he rallied and for the past two or three days has been feeling considerable better. He has a remarkably strong heart action and it is to this fact alone that this life is prolonged from day to day.


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