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NASHVILLE NEWS        
Friday May 15, 1874



                                VERMONTVILLE

   "Uncle Ralph Hooker, an old resident of this village, died very sudenly
   Tuesday evening of last week. He had retired for the night in his usual
   health; but had been in bed for ashort time when his wife thought she
   heard him as if in heavy, labored breathing. She hastened to his room and 
   found him in an insensible condition. She immediately alarmed her nearest
   neighbor, but before they could get there he was dead. Mr Hooker had been
   about town all day in apparently good health, and exceedingly fine spirits.
   About four o'clock in the afternoon he executed a deal of his village
   property to his wife, to save her the trouble and expence of proving a will
   which he had made to her some time since.

   The old gentleman has for the ten or twelve years been almost a cripple,
   owing to his limbs not being strong enough to support his ponderous body,
   (his weight being nearly 300 pounds.)

   Proble no person in the village would have been missed more than "Uncle
   Ralph". We shall feel the vacancy of that peculiar thud,thud, of his
   crutches upon the sidewalks, and we shall look in vain upon the counters
   of our business houses(his favorite resting place) to behold his ponderous
   form.

   The funeral services were held at the Congregational Church in this village
   on Thursday at 10 o'clock a.m. The serman was preached by Rev. W.W. Benedict
   in gratification of a request by the deceased.


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   RALPH HOOKER, Male, married, died May 5, 1874 in Vermontville Mi.,
   age 81y 8m 25d, heart disease, born Vermontville, Wagon Maker.