Jackson County IA Archives Obituaries.....Reed, James July 5, 1892
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Maquoketa Excelsior, July 8, 1892
Maquoketa Excelsior, July 8, 1892

Bellevue Leader:

Dr. Reed, though not feeling well, started early Tuesday morning in company with 
his son, Julien, in a two-horse buggy, to visit a patient on Spruce creek, four 
miles north of town. When about three miles on their way, Julien noticed that 
his father was unable to handle the horses which were spirited and took the 
lines unto his own hands. He saw at once that something was wrong. He repeatedly 
spoke to his father, but response came from the lips that were sealed forever. 
Turning his horses homeward he had to hold his father to keep him from falling 
out of the buggy. He also had to draw tight lines on the eager and fretfull team 
to keep them from running away. He soon reached home and the stricken doctor was 
carried into his own house and placed in bed. Doctors Millar and Fowler were 
summoned, but the patient was a dying man and in the last stages of apolplexy, 
and beyond the reach of medical skill. He did not seem to recognize anybody or 
anything, though wife and son frantically appealed to him for some sort of 
recognition. He lingered a little over an hour and then passed away peacefully 
and quietly without showing any signs whatever of pain or suffering. His people 
who have died have all gone the same way and he had been anticipating the fatal 
stroke for some time. He would have been 56 years old the 22d of this month. A 
wife, son, one brother and two sisters survive him to mourn his loss.


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