Obit for John HARLAN (d.1882), Wabasha Co., MN

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This from Gerrie Tierney Boland:

In the Plainview Herald I took down the date of 11/11/1882 there was 
an article on the death of John Harland - this is off by a year of 
the death date we have.

John Harland, one of the most prominent citizens and oldest inhabitants 
of the town of Oakwood, died very suddenly last Saturday morning about 
eleven o'clock.  It seems that early in the morning he greatly overheated 
himself running after cattle and came to his house exhausted.  He sat 
down by the stove, and his wife, somewhat worried by his alarming 
condition, stepped out to call their boy, and when she re-entered 
the house found the old gentleman dead in his chair.  Mr. Harland 
had been Justice of the Peace in Oakwood for a number of years, and 
has always enjoyed the implicit confidence of the entire community 
in which he lived.  He was one of those few men of whom it can be 
truthfully said that his word was as good as his bond.  
His difficulty was heart disease.