Obit for Orrin OAKS (b.1804 d.1875), Olmsted Co., MN

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Rochester Post November 13, 1875

Mr Orrin Oaks, an old and generally known resident of this city suffered a 
sudden death on Monday, inst.
He had been to Proctors Meat Market and was going from there to his home 
when at a quarter of 11 o'clock just after getting inside of his gate, he 
fell.  His daughter, Miss Gussie, on going out a few minutes later was 
shocked by finding the form of her father laying there. By the  assistance 
of some gentleman who were in the vicinity, the body was carried into the 
house, but life was entirely gone, and he is supposed to have died almost 
instantly of heart disease.

Mr Oaks was venerable gentleman of over seventy one years, having been born 
in Stephentown, Renesselar County, New York, in February, 1804.  He removed 
to La Porte, Indiana, in 1835, and there married.  He removed to this state 
in 1856, settling as a farmer on Greenwood Prairie, in the town of 
Farmington, in this county.  In common with early settlers of this region 
he passed through the privations of the hard times.  An incident that he 
told of the well-remembered hard winter, was that one time he went from
his place nearly to Oronoco for a few potatoes, that being the nearest 
house at which there was any food to spare.  In 1861 he moved into this 
city and has since lived here.  In 1869 Mrs Oaks died.

The funeral, which took place on Wednesday afternoon from the Presbyterian 
Church, was largely attended.  The burial service of the Episcopal church 
was read by Rev J F Walker, and the sermon was preached by Rev H A Newell, 
pastor of the Presbyterian church.  The remains were conveyed to the 
cemetery by the two lodges of Odd Fellows, of which order Mr Oaks was a 
prominent and honored member.