Texas Obituaries & Death Records | Erath CountyA Letter from Ohio.ZANESVILLE, OHIO, Oct. 20, 1882. IRA B. KEELER, STEPHENVILLE, TEX. DEAR SIR:—I am informed that you are the manager of the Texas Hotel where my son Louis died on the 11th inst. I have also been informed that you were very kind to him and gave him the attention of a brother. For these acts of kindness please accept the heartfelt thanks of myself and family and may God bless you abundantly. Every one who did him a kindness will be held in grateful remembrance. It is probable others, whose names I do not know, rendered him kind services. Please convey to them my thanks. His body arrived here safely, but decomposition had too far advanced to permit us to look on the remains. Had they been less carefully prepared for shipment, it is probable they would not have reached Zanesville at all. His remains arrived on Tuesday and the case was taken out of the wooden coffin and placed in a casket and taken to our home where the funeral services were held on Wednesday, at 2 P. M. I was very much surprised and shocked on receipt of telegram announcing his death, for on the Friday previous I received from him an eight page letter full of hope. I am sorry to trouble you, but if you can give me any particulars regarding his death, not available to me through Mr. Buchanan, I would be under a great obligation. Did he died of hemorrhage or was there a gradual sinking away. He wrote me his bowels were in very bad condition and the Dr. at Duffau pronounced his disease catarrh of the stomach. Again, accept my thanks. yours truly, JNO. J. INGALLS. Stephenville Empire, Sat., 28 October 1882 |
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