Obituary: Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Isaac BRICKHAM ************************************************************************ Submitted by Kathy Grace, June 2004 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ Daily Northwestern May 10, 1890 Found Dead Old Man Brickham Suddenly Dies of Heart Failure At seven o'clock this morning the dead body of Isaac Brickham was found lying near the pump in the back yard of his house on Ohio street, near Eighteenth. Justice Ryckman, acting coroner, empaneled a jury consisting of W.W. Neff, H.J. Wagner, Herman Berndt, Isaac Davis and J.H. Hicks. Dr. Thompson made an examination of the body, which was lying on its face, and found a severe bruise on the forehead, just above the right eye. Brickham was seen in the garden about an hour before being found, ans as he was subject to heart disease, it is thought that he had a fainting spell, and falling, struck his head on the well curbing, the shock producing death. The jury rendered a verdict accordingly. The body was turned over to Undertaker Spkes, and the date of the funeral which will probably be under the direction of the G.A.R. posts of this city, has not been fixed, awaiting arrival of a son of the deceased from Denver. Isaac Brickham was about seventy-two years of age and had lived alone on the property where he died for nearly nine years, his wife leaving him in 1881. She is now in Canada. He has a son, John Brickham, living on Sixth street, and another in Denver. He was a cripple, having lost a leg at the seige of Spanish Fort, near Mobile, in April 1864, being a private in Co. K, Fourteenth Wisconsin infantry. R.A. Spink, city treasurer, was a member of the regiment, and was standing near when Brickham lost his leg. There was a rumor current on the streets today that the deceased had been murdered, but there seemed to be no foundation for the fact, as the jury, after hearing the evidence, rendered a verdict of death from heart failure. Daily Northwestern, May 12, 1890 The funeral of Isaac Brickham takes place Tuesday afternoon at two o'clock from the Second Baptist church, on the south side. The deceased was not a member of the local posts, though all old soldiers are requested to meet at the undertaking establishment of Wm Spikes at 1:30 p.m. to attend the funeral in a body in respect to the memory of a brave and crippled veteran.