Morgan County IL Archives Obituaries.....Lewis, Samuel 1883
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Jacksonville Courier Feb 24, 1883
Obituary: Samuel Lewis
On file Jacksonville Public Library
Newspaper: Jacksonville Courier
Thursday, February 24, 1883
Abstracted 14 July 2005 by Maureen E. Lewnes

Found Dead

	At half past 2 o’clock, __________afternoon Samuel Lewis, a veteran 
was found dead in the water closet at the home of his son, Mr. Wm. H. McEvers 
in South Sandy. The body was once taken in with help of neighbors and Coroner 
Hocking notified of the sudden death. He immediately impaneled a jury and held 
an inquest.  The witnesses who gave testimony were Wm. E. McEvers, John 
Barker, Cupid Moseley, and J.F. Imhoff.  It appears from the evidence given 
that the deceased was living in McEvers’ house, and was 89 years old this 
month, and partially blind.  He had apparently been in as good health as 
usual, complaining of nothing but a slight pain in the side. He was led to the 
water closet by his stepdaughter, Mrs. McEvers, as was customary with her on 
account of his blindness, and found 20 minutes later with life extinct,  The  
deceased was a pensioner of the war of 1812-a venerable veteran. The jury 
released the following verdict:
	We the undersigned jurors _________to inquire the death of Samuel 
Lewis__________do find that_______________his death from an Unknown cause but 
suppose it to have been old age.
					Elias Kremer
					William S. Lurton
					 Geo W. Fox
					John W. Kremer
					Wm. P. McCook
G.W. Graves, Clerk

			
Corrections needed and known by the abstractor:
▪ Mrs. Elizabeth M. McEvers nee Lewis, widow of Henry McEvers was a daughter 
not a step-daughter and Wm. H. McEvers was her son so grandson to Samuel.
Additional information
▪ Samuel Lewis was from Wheeling, West Virginia but born near Baltimore, MD

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