Aged, homeless and in ill health, Henry E. Mapes, for many years justice of the peace in Moline, when he retired in the little room adjoining his office on Sixteenth street last night, locked the windows and the doors, and turned on the gas in the light jets and the stove on which he cooked his meals. He was lying dead on the floor when C. G. M. Stoddard broke open the door of his office at 8:45 o'clock this morning.
Mr. Mapes remarked to several of his intimates the past week that he had run his race; he had nothing more to live for, and sickness having overtaken him, he had about decided to forestall the suffering that was in store for him.
Deceased had never been in rugged health since he contracted fever during service in the civil war, having enlisted as a member of Company H, 19th Illinois infantry. He served only a little over a year. Mr. Mapes was born Pleasant Mount, Pa., in 1836. The family settled in Moline in 1854. That city had since been the home of Mr. Mapes. He had never married.
Deceased is survived by two sisters and a brother: Mrs. M. L. Henderson, Rock Island; Mrs. Lucy Kidder, Mounmouth and E. A. Mapes, Baxter, Kan.
Funeral services will be held at 10 o'clock Thursday morning at the Knox undertaking rooms, in Moline. Graham post, G. A. R., will be in charge of the services. Interment will be in Riverside cemetery.
(The Rock Island Argus - Nov. 2, 1909)
Mr. Mapes remarked to several of his intimates the past week that he had run his race; he had nothing more to live for, and sickness having overtaken him, he had about decided to forestall the suffering that was in store for him.
Deceased had never been in rugged health since he contracted fever during service in the civil war, having enlisted as a member of Company H, 19th Illinois infantry. He served only a little over a year. Mr. Mapes was born Pleasant Mount, Pa., in 1836. The family settled in Moline in 1854. That city had since been the home of Mr. Mapes. He had never married.
Deceased is survived by two sisters and a brother: Mrs. M. L. Henderson, Rock Island; Mrs. Lucy Kidder, Mounmouth and E. A. Mapes, Baxter, Kan.
Funeral services will be held at 10 o'clock Thursday morning at the Knox undertaking rooms, in Moline. Graham post, G. A. R., will be in charge of the services. Interment will be in Riverside cemetery.
(The Rock Island Argus - Nov. 2, 1909)
Aged, homeless and in ill health, Henry E. Mapes, for many years justice of the peace in Moline, when he retired in the little room adjoining his office on Sixteenth street last night, locked the windows and the doors, and turned on the gas in the light jets and the stove on which he cooked his meals. He was lying dead on the floor when C. G. M. Stoddard broke open the door of his office at 8:45 o'clock this morning.
Mr. Mapes remarked to several of his intimates the past week that he had run his race; he had nothing more to live for, and sickness having overtaken him, he had about decided to forestall the suffering that was in store for him.
Deceased had never been in rugged health since he contracted fever during service in the civil war, having enlisted as a member of Company H, 19th Illinois infantry. He served only a little over a year. Mr. Mapes was born Pleasant Mount, Pa., in 1836. The family settled in Moline in 1854. That city had since been the home of Mr. Mapes. He had never married.
Deceased is survived by two sisters and a brother: Mrs. M. L. Henderson, Rock Island; Mrs. Lucy Kidder, Mounmouth and E. A. Mapes, Baxter, Kan.
Funeral services will be held at 10 o'clock Thursday morning at the Knox undertaking rooms, in Moline. Graham post, G. A. R., will be in charge of the services. Interment will be in Riverside cemetery.
(The Rock Island Argus - Nov. 2, 1909)
Mr. Mapes remarked to several of his intimates the past week that he had run his race; he had nothing more to live for, and sickness having overtaken him, he had about decided to forestall the suffering that was in store for him.
Deceased had never been in rugged health since he contracted fever during service in the civil war, having enlisted as a member of Company H, 19th Illinois infantry. He served only a little over a year. Mr. Mapes was born Pleasant Mount, Pa., in 1836. The family settled in Moline in 1854. That city had since been the home of Mr. Mapes. He had never married.
Deceased is survived by two sisters and a brother: Mrs. M. L. Henderson, Rock Island; Mrs. Lucy Kidder, Mounmouth and E. A. Mapes, Baxter, Kan.
Funeral services will be held at 10 o'clock Thursday morning at the Knox undertaking rooms, in Moline. Graham post, G. A. R., will be in charge of the services. Interment will be in Riverside cemetery.
(The Rock Island Argus - Nov. 2, 1909)
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19 ILL. INF.
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Buried next to his brother, L. Brown Mapes.
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