Survivors include his wife & four children.
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Cherokee Sentinel, Jan. 12, 1900, page 7:
Dr. Forney Dead
The Doctor Had Been Suffering With Rheumatism for Years.
Died Suddenly Tuesday night.
On Wednesday morning when Miss Vada Forney, daughter of Dr. L.J. Forney, came down to his office where he slept, she found him sitting in a chair with his head falling forward, and she thought he had fainted and ran for help. Men soon came and a doctor was called for, but it was found that he was dead. For years the doctor had been a great sufferer with rheumatism, and the pains often went to his heart, and at such times he would talk of the probability of his death, but lately he has had some bad spells, and especially on the night before. Judge Sprague sat an hour with him and he had Dr. Foster called in and relieved him of his pains and they talked of the different means of relief. Dr. Forney said that he could not take morphine and suggested cocaine injections, which Dr. Foster we are told discouraged. When Judge Sprague left the doctor was feeling well and sat up on the side of the bed. His two daughters came in after the stores had closed intending to stay with him, and they washed his face, combed his hair, and gave him medicine, when he said he could sleep and he wanted them to go as he was all right, and could sleep better alone. It is thought that he took another bad spell in the night and was an intense sufferer, as he wrote a note saying, "I would rather take a leap into the unknown than to endure what I do" and signed his name. His wife says that he often wrote notes when he had spells at night. Dr. Forney came here some ten or twelve years ago and has been a practitioner and at one time was company physician at Fleming.

He was born near Cambridge, Ohio a little over 57 years ago, where he attended the common schools, and afterwards attended medical school at Cincinatti, at Keokuck, Iowa, and Rush medical college at Chicago, and he has in his office diplomas from these three institutions. He was married afterwards to Miss Eliza Stiles of Indianola, Iowa, and moved to Hastings, Nebraska, where he founded a medical institute which proved to be a prosperous concern, but he sold out and went to the town of Deunesse where he ran a boom paper in the interest of the upbuilding of that place, but later sold out and moved to Oceola, Iowa, where he practiced medicine till he came here about ten years ago, where he has since practiced.

Dr. Forney was his own worst enemy and was at times addicted to his cups, yet he was a big hearted man of good impulses, and hundreds of poor people who came to him seeking relief from suffering always found a friend in the doctor, and was never turned away, although he would get no pay for his service. When he would find a poor suffering destitute person, he would always see that the proper officers afforded relief. he leaves a wife and four children, two boys and two girls all grown. His remains were buried today at 10 o'clock from the family residence and will repose in the Cherokee cemetery.
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Sent by Dave Hunt (#48397952)

The Osceola Democrat, Osceola, Iowa
January 18, 1900, Page 5:
—A press dispatch from Cherokee, Kansas, of January 10th, as follows, describes the unfortunate end of our former citizen, Dr. Forney, who left here about twelve or thirteen years since. He was a brother of A. C. Forney. The dispatch says- "Dr. L. J. Forney, a prominent physician, was found dead in his office this morning. On a table were bottles of various poisons and a note saying: ' I had rather leap into the unknown than longer endure what I know." Forney came here with his family from Des Moines, Iowa, twelve years ago. He suffered from inflammatory rheumatism."

The A. C. Forney is Abraham Curtis Forney. I have attached his parents.