Post by Pat (Friend) Thompson on Oct 6, 2008 8:07:50 GMT -5
Asa Murphy Friend, AKA William Murphy Robinson, AKA James Asa Ferguson, died December 4, 1909.
James Asa Ferguson died Saturday evening at 11:30 at his little home across the track from the Wabash Station.
He was sick for only three hours. When Mrs. Katherine “Jane” McKinney Ferguson came home from her work at the poultry house at 6:00 he had supper prepared and seemed well as usual. A little later he complained of pain. A doctor was summoned and left medicine, but Mr. Ferguson had lapsed into a spell on the mental aberration and took to much medicine and too often, disregarding the doctor’s orders. He was always very eccentric, quite peculiar in his habits, more so now. As he laid down he aid the bed was wrong side up.
When the wife heard him snore, she knew something was wrong and hastened to him only to find him unconscious, but she said, “He laid himself out on his back, his arms folded over his breast, as conscious that death was upon him.”
He was a soldier of the Civil War with a good record, and lived on his pension of $12.00. Fro a time some years ago he was in the soldier’s home. He was born in Ohio, April 14, 1835.
He leaves a wife and four children, Mrs. Charley Peck and Mrs. J. W. Holmes, daughters, Raymond, a son 18 years lives at home, and an older son came from out of town. The funeral is at 10:00 today, by Reverend Bartley at the home of his brother-in-law, Sam McKinney, on Webster Street. He was a member of the post, and the soldiers will have charge of the burial and the w. R. C. will furnish a flag for the grave.
“Mr. James Ferguson married Katherine Jane McKinney Aug. 8, 1876 in Thurman, Freemont Co., IA.”
James Asa Ferguson died Saturday evening at 11:30 at his little home across the track from the Wabash Station.
He was sick for only three hours. When Mrs. Katherine “Jane” McKinney Ferguson came home from her work at the poultry house at 6:00 he had supper prepared and seemed well as usual. A little later he complained of pain. A doctor was summoned and left medicine, but Mr. Ferguson had lapsed into a spell on the mental aberration and took to much medicine and too often, disregarding the doctor’s orders. He was always very eccentric, quite peculiar in his habits, more so now. As he laid down he aid the bed was wrong side up.
When the wife heard him snore, she knew something was wrong and hastened to him only to find him unconscious, but she said, “He laid himself out on his back, his arms folded over his breast, as conscious that death was upon him.”
He was a soldier of the Civil War with a good record, and lived on his pension of $12.00. Fro a time some years ago he was in the soldier’s home. He was born in Ohio, April 14, 1835.
He leaves a wife and four children, Mrs. Charley Peck and Mrs. J. W. Holmes, daughters, Raymond, a son 18 years lives at home, and an older son came from out of town. The funeral is at 10:00 today, by Reverend Bartley at the home of his brother-in-law, Sam McKinney, on Webster Street. He was a member of the post, and the soldiers will have charge of the burial and the w. R. C. will furnish a flag for the grave.
“Mr. James Ferguson married Katherine Jane McKinney Aug. 8, 1876 in Thurman, Freemont Co., IA.”