Gage County NeArchives Obituaries.....Upson, George L. September 29, 1908
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Original obituary/funeral card
   George L. Upson was born in Camden, New York, July 4th, 1865, and died at 
his home near Lanham, Nebr., Sept. 29th, 1908, of typhoid fever.
   Until the age of twenty-one his life was spent at his birthplace.  In the 
spring of 1886 he came to Nebraska.  In June of the same year he went with his 
brother Fletcher to Oberlin, Kansas.  That fall he returned to Nebraska and the 
following spring went to Oklahoma.  Returning to Nebraska in the fall he 
engaged in farming till the spring of 1892 when he removed to Stuttgart, Ark.
   In June, 1893, he was married to Miss Julia Colon.  His widow and five 
children, Jennie, Richard, William, Colon and Fred, survive him, two children 
dying in infancy.
   He leaves a father and a sister in New York and a brother in Oberlin, Kan.  
He returned to Nebraska in 1897 and until his death made his home in this 
vicinity.
   His funeral was held in Reserve church in charge of Rev. Duke Slaven and the 
Woodmen lodge of which lodge he was a member.  His burial was in the cemetery 
adjoining the church by the side of little Frank, who preceded him a few months.
   He was of a kind and generous disposition and will be missed from his family.
  

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