DIED IN THE WOODS
Sudden Death of Jefferson Crowell
50 Miles North of Shawano
Wednesday, C.C. Paige received a dispatch from J.M. Bray at Shawano giving the startling intelligence that Jefferson Crowell was dead and that the body was on the way to Oshkosh via the M.L.S. & W. railroad. The remains accordingly arrived here on the eleven o'clock train over that road incased in a temporary board coffin made for it in the woods where he died. It was not until the remains and those accompanying them that the particulars of his death were learned here.
It appears that Mr. Crowell died suddenly on Monday while traveling through the woods fifty miles above Shawano. Mr. Crowell and another man were engaged in looking over some pine land about ten miles from the logging camp of James Monahan. Suddenly Mr. Crowell who was walking in the rear of his companion dropped to the ground. His companion went back to Mr. Crowell and found him dying. He raised Mr. Crowell up but he only gasped once and then died. Help was secured and the body taken to Monahan's camp from which place the body was taken to Shawano and thence to Clintonville and home on the train as stated. A number of friends met the remains at the depot and escorted them to the residence on Algoma street where they were placed in charge of the undertaker. Mr. Crowell was one of the best-known land hunters and woodsman in this region, and had followed the business all his life. He was seventy-six years of age and leaves a wife and four grown up children. He has two sons residing here, Irving and Everett, a daughter Sarah visiting in Chicago and a son Augustine, a printer, residing in Chicago. There is little doubt that Mr. Crowell died of heart disease.
The funeral of Jefferson Crowell took place last Friday afternoon at two o'clock from the residence on Algoma street. Mr. Crowell's son Augustine and daughter Sarah arrived Thursday morning. The funeral was very largely attended, principally by old residents, who have known the deceased ever since he came here about 1848. The services were conducted by Rev. K.C. Anderson, but there was no signing or flowers, in deference to a remark he frequently made when alive that he wanted no singing or flowers at his funeral.
(SOURCE: Oshkosh Weekly Northwestern – Thurs, 16 December 1880)
Contributor: JRF (46493875)
Sudden Death of Jefferson Crowell
50 Miles North of Shawano
Wednesday, C.C. Paige received a dispatch from J.M. Bray at Shawano giving the startling intelligence that Jefferson Crowell was dead and that the body was on the way to Oshkosh via the M.L.S. & W. railroad. The remains accordingly arrived here on the eleven o'clock train over that road incased in a temporary board coffin made for it in the woods where he died. It was not until the remains and those accompanying them that the particulars of his death were learned here.
It appears that Mr. Crowell died suddenly on Monday while traveling through the woods fifty miles above Shawano. Mr. Crowell and another man were engaged in looking over some pine land about ten miles from the logging camp of James Monahan. Suddenly Mr. Crowell who was walking in the rear of his companion dropped to the ground. His companion went back to Mr. Crowell and found him dying. He raised Mr. Crowell up but he only gasped once and then died. Help was secured and the body taken to Monahan's camp from which place the body was taken to Shawano and thence to Clintonville and home on the train as stated. A number of friends met the remains at the depot and escorted them to the residence on Algoma street where they were placed in charge of the undertaker. Mr. Crowell was one of the best-known land hunters and woodsman in this region, and had followed the business all his life. He was seventy-six years of age and leaves a wife and four grown up children. He has two sons residing here, Irving and Everett, a daughter Sarah visiting in Chicago and a son Augustine, a printer, residing in Chicago. There is little doubt that Mr. Crowell died of heart disease.
The funeral of Jefferson Crowell took place last Friday afternoon at two o'clock from the residence on Algoma street. Mr. Crowell's son Augustine and daughter Sarah arrived Thursday morning. The funeral was very largely attended, principally by old residents, who have known the deceased ever since he came here about 1848. The services were conducted by Rev. K.C. Anderson, but there was no signing or flowers, in deference to a remark he frequently made when alive that he wanted no singing or flowers at his funeral.
(SOURCE: Oshkosh Weekly Northwestern – Thurs, 16 December 1880)
Contributor: JRF (46493875)
DIED IN THE WOODS
Sudden Death of Jefferson Crowell
50 Miles North of Shawano
Wednesday, C.C. Paige received a dispatch from J.M. Bray at Shawano giving the startling intelligence that Jefferson Crowell was dead and that the body was on the way to Oshkosh via the M.L.S. & W. railroad. The remains accordingly arrived here on the eleven o'clock train over that road incased in a temporary board coffin made for it in the woods where he died. It was not until the remains and those accompanying them that the particulars of his death were learned here.
It appears that Mr. Crowell died suddenly on Monday while traveling through the woods fifty miles above Shawano. Mr. Crowell and another man were engaged in looking over some pine land about ten miles from the logging camp of James Monahan. Suddenly Mr. Crowell who was walking in the rear of his companion dropped to the ground. His companion went back to Mr. Crowell and found him dying. He raised Mr. Crowell up but he only gasped once and then died. Help was secured and the body taken to Monahan's camp from which place the body was taken to Shawano and thence to Clintonville and home on the train as stated. A number of friends met the remains at the depot and escorted them to the residence on Algoma street where they were placed in charge of the undertaker. Mr. Crowell was one of the best-known land hunters and woodsman in this region, and had followed the business all his life. He was seventy-six years of age and leaves a wife and four grown up children. He has two sons residing here, Irving and Everett, a daughter Sarah visiting in Chicago and a son Augustine, a printer, residing in Chicago. There is little doubt that Mr. Crowell died of heart disease.
The funeral of Jefferson Crowell took place last Friday afternoon at two o'clock from the residence on Algoma street. Mr. Crowell's son Augustine and daughter Sarah arrived Thursday morning. The funeral was very largely attended, principally by old residents, who have known the deceased ever since he came here about 1848. The services were conducted by Rev. K.C. Anderson, but there was no signing or flowers, in deference to a remark he frequently made when alive that he wanted no singing or flowers at his funeral.
(SOURCE: Oshkosh Weekly Northwestern – Thurs, 16 December 1880)
Contributor: JRF (46493875)
Sudden Death of Jefferson Crowell
50 Miles North of Shawano
Wednesday, C.C. Paige received a dispatch from J.M. Bray at Shawano giving the startling intelligence that Jefferson Crowell was dead and that the body was on the way to Oshkosh via the M.L.S. & W. railroad. The remains accordingly arrived here on the eleven o'clock train over that road incased in a temporary board coffin made for it in the woods where he died. It was not until the remains and those accompanying them that the particulars of his death were learned here.
It appears that Mr. Crowell died suddenly on Monday while traveling through the woods fifty miles above Shawano. Mr. Crowell and another man were engaged in looking over some pine land about ten miles from the logging camp of James Monahan. Suddenly Mr. Crowell who was walking in the rear of his companion dropped to the ground. His companion went back to Mr. Crowell and found him dying. He raised Mr. Crowell up but he only gasped once and then died. Help was secured and the body taken to Monahan's camp from which place the body was taken to Shawano and thence to Clintonville and home on the train as stated. A number of friends met the remains at the depot and escorted them to the residence on Algoma street where they were placed in charge of the undertaker. Mr. Crowell was one of the best-known land hunters and woodsman in this region, and had followed the business all his life. He was seventy-six years of age and leaves a wife and four grown up children. He has two sons residing here, Irving and Everett, a daughter Sarah visiting in Chicago and a son Augustine, a printer, residing in Chicago. There is little doubt that Mr. Crowell died of heart disease.
The funeral of Jefferson Crowell took place last Friday afternoon at two o'clock from the residence on Algoma street. Mr. Crowell's son Augustine and daughter Sarah arrived Thursday morning. The funeral was very largely attended, principally by old residents, who have known the deceased ever since he came here about 1848. The services were conducted by Rev. K.C. Anderson, but there was no signing or flowers, in deference to a remark he frequently made when alive that he wanted no singing or flowers at his funeral.
(SOURCE: Oshkosh Weekly Northwestern – Thurs, 16 December 1880)
Contributor: JRF (46493875)
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