Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Short, John 1898 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/id/idfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Cheryl Hanson ihansonb@fmtc.com December 3, 2005, 9:27 pm Payette Independent 3-24-1898 Payette Independent Payette, Idaho March 24, 1898 Death of John Short John Short, aged 74 years 3 months and 10 days died at his home near Payette on Friday, March 18th at 6 o'clock in the afternoon, after a week's illness of inflammation of the kidneys. The remains were taken to Boise Sunday afternoon for burial, the funeral taking place on Monday morning. John McGlinchey, W. A. Coughanour, P. A. Devers, J. J. Toole, Peter Pence, Captain Henry Ervine and Wm. Wall, of Payette, and Edward Brannan, of Boise, acted as pall-bearers a number of the old friends of the deceased accompanied the family and the remains to Boise John Short was born in county Limerick, Ireland. He came to this country and settled in Chicago 40 years ago, where he amassed a considerable fortune. He became a resident of the Payette Valley in 1884 and engaged in the cattle business, since which time he has been one of the most extensive cattle- raisers in this state. He leaves a wife and four children, Edward and William Short, of this place, and two daughters, who reside in Chicago. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/id/payette/obits/s/short33nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/idfiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb