Obit of Swan RYDEEN (d.1908), Sibley Co., MN ========================================================================= USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. If you have found this file through a source other than the MNArchives Table Of Contents you can find other Minnesota related Archives at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/mn/mnfiles.htm Please note the county and type of file at the top of this page to find the submitter information or other files for this county. Made available to The USGenWeb Archives by: Dwight Grabitske ========================================================================= Arlington Enterprise Thursday 6 February 1908 PIONEER IS DEAD We are this week called upon to chronicle the death of on of Severance township’s pioneer farmers. Swan Rydeen passed away at his home on Sunday evening at about 7:15 o’clock. He has been an invalid for the past fifteen years, Locomator Ataxy being his ailment. A few days before his death the deceased was stricken down with Edyemea of Lungs, this being the cause of his departure from this world. - Gibbon Gazette