Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1903 — SUDDEN DEATH IN MILROY. [ARTICLE]

SUDDEN DEATH IN MILROY.

James Chapman, a farmer aged about 65 years, died very suddenly at his home about one mile southeast of Milroy Baptist church in Milroy tp., Thursday afternoon. He had been to Monon in the forenoon and ate his dinner and was apparantly feeling all right. He was in a room by himself after dinner when sadden* ly the family heard a noise in the room and on going to same found him lying on the floor dead. The noise made was caused by the overturning of a stand which he had fallen against in falling to the floor. Heart disease caused his death. The fnneral will be held to-day at 10:80 a. m., from Milroy Baptist church, and interment in Benson cemetery.