Aiken County ScArchives Obituaries.....Bates, Charles R. 1877
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Aiken Courier-Journal 13 Dec 1877
Sudden Death of a Stranger.
A sudden death occurred in our streets on Wednesday of last week among the 
strangers sojourning here, which with the circumstances attending it threw a 
passing gloom over the town and hotel where he was staying. A Mr. Charles R. 
Bates came here a few days since accompanied by his invalid wife, from 
Kalamazoo, Mich., seeking for her health and relief from the rigorous winter of 
the Northwest. He was about 49 years of age, large, stout and hearty, and 
apparently in the flush of health, and in the morning, after breakfast, started 
out from Highland Park Hotel for a walk in company with four other gentlemen. 
After walking a short distance he complained of a sudden pain in his throat 
extending downwards, but it soon passed off and the party walked out into the 
country about a mile when he complained of it again and said he would return. 
They rested awhile and then turned homeward, he walking ahead with one of the 
gentlemen. Shortly after, while his friends were stopping under a persimmon tree 
he was seen to lean against the fence at the side of the road and then sink 
heavily to the ground. His friends hastened towards him and spoke loudly his 
name, but he took no notice of them, being apparently dead when they reached 
him. As his wife preferred taking his remains home an autopsy was necessary, 
which was conducted by Doctors Geddings, Croft and Adams, of Springfield, Mass, 
present by invitation. The cause of his death was pronounced to be internal 
congestion, amounting to engorgement of the lungs; the arteries leading thereto 
being found to be very much swollen. Mr. Bates had been subject to similar 
attacks before in his life but they were not thought serious. The body was taken 
home by the bereaved wife accompanied by a gentleman, a former friend of Mr. 
Bates, residing in town. The deceased was a man of wealth and of high mercantile 
standing in Michigan.

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