Wednesday at 11 a.m. Mr. John T. Conley, postmaster at Big Horn, was buried from the Congregational Church of that town.
Mr. Conley was born at Henderson, Ill., Feb. 26, 1811. He lived there until the war. At the outbreak of which he went in the front and served for four years. He belonged to Co. D 102nd Illinois volunteers. After the war, he went into the drug business at Knoxville, Ia., and later he was in business at Fargo, N. Dak., and in southern Missouri,
In 1901 he came to Big Horn, where he has since kept a drug store and held the office of Postmaster. During the winter, he was taken sick with an abscess of the chest, and early in February went to a Kansas City hospital for further treatment. When he had nearly recovered from this, la gripe induced heart failure which caused his death on the 27th.
He leaves a wife and four children, Mrs. Minnie E. White of Burnham, Mo., James Conley of Georgetown, South America; Dr. George Conley of Kansas City, and William O. Conley who is an employee in the R & M shop at Sheridan.
Sheridan Post
Mr. Conley was born at Henderson, Ill., Feb. 26, 1811. He lived there until the war. At the outbreak of which he went in the front and served for four years. He belonged to Co. D 102nd Illinois volunteers. After the war, he went into the drug business at Knoxville, Ia., and later he was in business at Fargo, N. Dak., and in southern Missouri,
In 1901 he came to Big Horn, where he has since kept a drug store and held the office of Postmaster. During the winter, he was taken sick with an abscess of the chest, and early in February went to a Kansas City hospital for further treatment. When he had nearly recovered from this, la gripe induced heart failure which caused his death on the 27th.
He leaves a wife and four children, Mrs. Minnie E. White of Burnham, Mo., James Conley of Georgetown, South America; Dr. George Conley of Kansas City, and William O. Conley who is an employee in the R & M shop at Sheridan.
Sheridan Post
Wednesday at 11 a.m. Mr. John T. Conley, postmaster at Big Horn, was buried from the Congregational Church of that town.
Mr. Conley was born at Henderson, Ill., Feb. 26, 1811. He lived there until the war. At the outbreak of which he went in the front and served for four years. He belonged to Co. D 102nd Illinois volunteers. After the war, he went into the drug business at Knoxville, Ia., and later he was in business at Fargo, N. Dak., and in southern Missouri,
In 1901 he came to Big Horn, where he has since kept a drug store and held the office of Postmaster. During the winter, he was taken sick with an abscess of the chest, and early in February went to a Kansas City hospital for further treatment. When he had nearly recovered from this, la gripe induced heart failure which caused his death on the 27th.
He leaves a wife and four children, Mrs. Minnie E. White of Burnham, Mo., James Conley of Georgetown, South America; Dr. George Conley of Kansas City, and William O. Conley who is an employee in the R & M shop at Sheridan.
Sheridan Post
Mr. Conley was born at Henderson, Ill., Feb. 26, 1811. He lived there until the war. At the outbreak of which he went in the front and served for four years. He belonged to Co. D 102nd Illinois volunteers. After the war, he went into the drug business at Knoxville, Ia., and later he was in business at Fargo, N. Dak., and in southern Missouri,
In 1901 he came to Big Horn, where he has since kept a drug store and held the office of Postmaster. During the winter, he was taken sick with an abscess of the chest, and early in February went to a Kansas City hospital for further treatment. When he had nearly recovered from this, la gripe induced heart failure which caused his death on the 27th.
He leaves a wife and four children, Mrs. Minnie E. White of Burnham, Mo., James Conley of Georgetown, South America; Dr. George Conley of Kansas City, and William O. Conley who is an employee in the R & M shop at Sheridan.
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