Washington County ID Archives Obituaries.....Dedman, James S. 1902
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The Weiser Signal 7-16-1902
The Weiser Signal
Weiser, Idaho
Wednesday, July 16, 1902
 
VETERAN MASON PASSES AWAY
 
Died in Weiser, Idaho, Sunday, July 13, J.S. Dedman, aged 89 years, 1 month 
and 25 days.
 
Mr. Dedman was born at Huntsville, Alabama, May 20th, 1819.  He became a 
member of North Mt. Pleasant Lodge No. 99, A.F. & A.M., in 1840 and had been 
an active mason for 61 years and 7 months, and but for the unnatural manner of 
his death would undoubtedly have lived to become one of the oldest Masons in 
the world.  At the time of the breaking out of the Civil war he was a very 
wealthy man.  The confederate government took charge of his foundry paying him 
in confederate notes.  He has always had a trunk full of the purchase of his 
establishment.
 
He cast the first cannon for the Confederacy and has two or three comrades now 
living near Weiser.  He became a charter member of the Weiser lodge in 1887.
 
Mr. Dedman went through a severe attack of spotted fever a year ago and on 
recovery entered upon a period of hearty old age, bidding fair to live ten or 
fifteen years yet -- his father died at 98.  Saturday he was around town 
attending the primaries and telling his friends how fine he felt.  Sunday 
morning he arose and built the fire; a few moments later he came in and sank 
on the sofa calling to his wife "I am a dead man, I drank the carbolic acid 
instead of the wine."  those were his last words.  Mrs. Dedman ran to a 
neighbor's and telephoned for Dr. Waterhouse who arrived in fifteen minutes to 
find the old man dead.  He was in the habit of taking a glass of wine in the 
morning and the bottle in some way had become misplaced and he had taken 
instead a glass of a wash containing a large amount of carbolic acid, the 
concoction having much the appearance of the wine.
 
He was buried under the Masonic auspices, the ceremonies being in charge of 
D.C. Chace, Worshipful Grand Master of Idaho.

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