Linn County IA Archives Obituaries.....Houser, Lucas June 7, 1864 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ia/iafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ken Wright wright@prestontel.com August 19, 2013, 11:15 pm Cedar Rapids Times Cedar Rapids Times, reprinted in the Clinton Herald, June 11, 1864 The Cedar Rapids Times gives an account of a singular and sudden death, which occurred in that place a few days since. Mr. Lucas Houser, who was digging up a grave, struck and brought open a coffin, when the deadly effluvia affected him so that he had barely strength enough to crawl from the grave to the fence which surrounded it, when he fell, face downward, and expired. He leaves a wife and three children. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ia/linn/obits/h/houser2644gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/iafiles/ File size: 1.1 Kb