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Samuel Irwin Heath

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Samuel Irwin Heath

Birth
Michigan, USA
Death
6 Mar 1908 (aged 39)
Frontier County, Nebraska, USA
Burial
Stockville, Frontier County, Nebraska, USA Add to Map
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Samuel Irwin Heath was born Friday, October 9, 1868 in MI. He was the son of Benjamin Samuel Heath and Martha Ann Gragg.
He married Carrie Edith McCall Sunday, December 18, 1892 in Boone Co., MO.
7 children were born to this union: Benjamin M., Ivan Delbert, Sylvia, Curtis Raymond, Florence Lucille, Elsie May, and Emery Robert.
They left MO to go to OK, but were in Republic Co., KS in 1900.
About 1906, a final move took them near Stockville, Frontier Co., NE.
Samuel died of typhoid fever about 6 AM, Friday, March 6, 1908, in Frontier Co., NE, aged 39 years, 4 months, and 26 days.
His father was ill with the same fever at the same time. There is a story that when Samuel died, he had to be removed from the house through a window so that his father would not know that he had died for fear that grief would worsen his illness.
He was a member of the Modern Woodmen of America which assisted in the funeral as well as during his illness.
Funeral services were held in the Methodist Episcopal Church in Stockville Sunday, March 8, 1908 by Rev. Thomas Scott. Interment followed in Arbor Cemetary, Stockville, Frontier Co., NE.
Samuel Irwin Heath was born Friday, October 9, 1868 in MI. He was the son of Benjamin Samuel Heath and Martha Ann Gragg.
He married Carrie Edith McCall Sunday, December 18, 1892 in Boone Co., MO.
7 children were born to this union: Benjamin M., Ivan Delbert, Sylvia, Curtis Raymond, Florence Lucille, Elsie May, and Emery Robert.
They left MO to go to OK, but were in Republic Co., KS in 1900.
About 1906, a final move took them near Stockville, Frontier Co., NE.
Samuel died of typhoid fever about 6 AM, Friday, March 6, 1908, in Frontier Co., NE, aged 39 years, 4 months, and 26 days.
His father was ill with the same fever at the same time. There is a story that when Samuel died, he had to be removed from the house through a window so that his father would not know that he had died for fear that grief would worsen his illness.
He was a member of the Modern Woodmen of America which assisted in the funeral as well as during his illness.
Funeral services were held in the Methodist Episcopal Church in Stockville Sunday, March 8, 1908 by Rev. Thomas Scott. Interment followed in Arbor Cemetary, Stockville, Frontier Co., NE.


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