Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1901 — Death Cuts Short a Visit [ARTICLE]

Death Cuts Short a Visit

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lewis, and their adopted son, Lloyd Paris, drove over from Oxford. Saturday, intending to make a visit of some length with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Berry Paris, and especially expecting to remain until after the latter’s golden wedding day, whioh is Tuesday, Deo. 31st. When Mr and Mrs. Lewis left Oxford, his father, Isaac Lewis, was in his usual good health. But Sunday, at 7 a. m. a telephone message came to Frank that his father was dead. He was among the oldest residents of Oxford, and was upwards of 70 years old. Enquiry of the supposed cause of the sudden death was not made when the telephone message was received. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis at once started back to Oxford. The funeral will probably be held there Tuesday. A singular fact, in this connection, was that when Mrs. * Lewis was here visiting her parents the last time preceding this, that visit also was out short by at? death in her husband’s family. That time it was a sister, Mrs. Bruston, who died, also very suddenly, from the effects of a surgical operation.