Earl Duncan

DUNCAN

Posted By: Beverly Gerdts (email)
Date: 6/8/2021 at 06:49:29

Columbus Gazette, Columbus Junction, Iowa
Thursday, March 9, 1899
Page 1

Death very seldom comes so quickly to one as it did to Earl Duncan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Marion Duncan of Union township. Tuesday they had butchered some hogs and hung them up to cool. In the evening Earl and his brother Frank started to take them in the house. Earl carried one which weighed about 200 pounds, and when he came out, made the remark that Frank could carry the next one in. Instead Frank went to the windmill to fix it in some way, and looking back he saw Earl lying on the ground. He called to him, but receiving no response, hurried to him and found him black in the face. He came to town at once for a doctor, but when he got home Earl was dead. A blood vessel of the brain had been ruptured. Earl was 21 years or more old, and an exemplary young man, was his taking off seems very severe on account of its extreme suddenness. The funeral was held at the home this afternoon at 3 o'clock, and the remains were laid to rest in the Columbus City cemetery.