Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1902 — Another Sadden Death. [ARTICLE]

Another Sadden Death.

Micah B. Halstead, One of Our Old Residents, Passed Away Sunday Morning. & Sunday morning, April 27,1902, at his home in Newton township, died suddenly Micha B. Halstead, one of the best known and most highly esteemed residents of that township, and an early settler of this vicinity. He has been much broken down in health for quite a long time past, but had not had any special sickness recently. Saturday he was about as usual, and even feeling better than common, and in the ate a hearty supper. Sunday morning he complained of feeling badly, and requested that a physician be called from Rensselaer. Dr. Hartsell was therefore sent for, but before he arrived, Mr. Halstead, unnoticed by the family, dressed and went out, and had not been missed until the doctor arriv-

jed. Search was then made and he was found sitting dead in the outhouse. The doctor gave neuralgia of the heart as the cause of his death, which must have been instantaneous. His death occurred between 8 and 9 o’clock. Mr. Halstead settled on Beaver prairie Newton Co., in 1857, when it was still a part of Jasper county. He lived there until 1865, when he moved to Newton tp„ this county, where he has lived ever since. His age would have been 70 years, the 3rd of May. He was married in August, 1857, his wife being a sister of Henry 0., and Benjamin Harris, of Rensselaer, and a twin sister of John Harris, whose death occured here, a few years ago. She survives him, as do seven of the eight sons who were born to them. Elder D. T. Halstead, of Rensselaer, is a brother. The son who is dead was mysteriously killed by a revolver shot, in the head, quite a number of years ago, in Dakota. Three es the sons are now in Wyoming, and though 60 miles from a telegraph station, an effort will be made to reach them, and arrangements for the funeral will not be 'made, until it is known whether or not the effort is successful.