Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1919 — S. S. SHEDD DIES SUDDENLY [ARTICLE]

S. S. SHEDD DIES SUDDENLY

RESPECTED CITIZEN SUCCUMBED TO HEART FAILURE FRIDAY AFTERNOON • 11 . , Spaulding S. Shedd, for many years a highly respected citizen and farmer of this community, passed a way suddenly at three p.m., Friday, at his home on Grace street, following an attack of heart trouble which he had been a subject of for several months. His death was entirely unexpected and came as a great shock to the citizens in general. The name of Spaulding S. Shedd has been linked with the progress of Jasper county for the past twentyfive years and has been a familiar one throughout the community. As a farmer, business man, public official and plain citizen he held the esteem of all. His thoroughness, progressiveness, integrity and advocacy of everything that tended for the good of the community in which he resided, stamped his as one of the most honored men among his fellowmen. Mr. Shedd was born in New Hampshire in the year 1845, therefore making him seventy-three years of age at the time of his death. When a young man he moved to Colorado where he lived for a number of years before coming to Jasper county with his family in the year 1895. The greater part of his time as a resident of this county was spent on his farm about three miles west of Rensselaer, where he continued to live until about four years ago when he took up his residence in this city. The deceased had been in good health with the exception of infrequent heart attacks and had visited the city only a very short time before his death occurred. He had contemplated a trip to Alabama to visit his daughter and family, it having benn his intention to leave during the fore part of the present week. The trip was abandoned upon the advice of the family physician. Mr. Shedd had seven brothers, six of whom preceded him in death. John G. Shedd, president of the Marshall Field & Co., of Chicago, is the surviving brother. Besides his wife, three daughters survive him, Mrs. E. J. Randle of this city, Mrs. Samuel Sparling, of Demopolis, Ala., and Miss Harriett Shedd, of Rensselaer, and two sons, Harry, of New York, and Arthur, of Demopolis, Ala. Funeral services will be held at three o’clock Monday afternoon at the late residence and will be conducted by the Rev. J. B. Fleming, of the Presbyterian cruch. Burial will be made in the family lot in Weston cemetery.