Obituary: Rock County, Wisconsin: LaFayette LOOMIS

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Submitted by Ruth Ann Montgomery, <rmontgomery@cishome.com> June 2005

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DIED-- LaFayette Loomis died of consumption at the residence of James
Lincoln in the town of Union, May 18th, 1883. Deceased was a native of
Geneva, N. Y., being the third and youngest son of Austin C. Loomis who
suddenly died at Janesville while on a business trip to this state when
Fayette was only 12 years old. He sustained a great loss in the death of
his father, which he continued to feel and to mourn until his death. About
seven years ago he was surprised by the breaking of an abcess upon his left
lung, which was the first premonition of failing health and of the malady
of which he died. Hoping better to withstand the disease in a western
climate he came to this State about five years since and settled with his
newly married wife upon section two, where he continued for five years to
fight the progress of the fatal foe with the best help that medical aid
could render and with the tender and unwavering attention of his wife and
the most fatherly assistance of his uncle Henry Loomis. He had a great
desire to live, and he tenasciously cherished the hope of recovery until
the last year, during which time he gradually transferred his affections to
his heavenly Friend and treasure on high. He experienced great peace in the
abounding grace of Christ and toward the last was anxious to depart and be
with him who had so loved and long borne with him. His wife was nobly
assisted in his last sad services by the uncle and the family where he
died, together with many other deeply sympathizing friends. The infirmities
of old age prevented his mother from visiting him in his last sickness. 

June 2, 1883, Evansville Review, p. 3, col. 3, Evansville, Wisconsin