Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-05-23
DEATH or SHERMAN n. BAILEY

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instant, o jolly party left this city to
make an excursion over the st. Louis
Kansas City and Northern and the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe rail.
roads, the trip intending to take in
the entire latter road to its terminus
at Pueblo, Colorado, and return to
this city.
Among them were Sherman II
Bailey, Lotion E. Gary, John Gray
VIM. A. Carnes and Byron Clark, OF
this city. *.''' I
! On. Friday evening, the 18th inst.
the train, at Ellinwood, Kansas, on
the A. T. Il st. f. r. r., was ditched
in q wash created by the unprecc.
denied floods which are prevailing
in that section, and Mr.. Bailey had
his skull fractured and arm broken
from which he died on Saturday
evening, 10th inst, at 10 30. go !
From the dispatch found elsewhere
in our paper it will be seen that one
Miller, of Fondulac, Wisconsin, was
killed outright, and seven others
wounded, including the subject OF
this notice, and Byron Clark, who
was reported by Lotion =. Gray in
our dispatches Of Saturday as not
seriously injured.
Sherman Bailey would have been
30 years of age had he lived until
next August. He was the son OF
John Il. and Mary Bailey, of Chilli
Gothic, Ohio, where Sherman was
born. He came TO Ottumwa in April,
1868, to visit his uncle, Major A. II.
Hamilton, one of the editors of this
paper, and directly thereafter became
engaged as clerk for o. X. Abels in
the family grocery business. Suisse
quently he accepted o position as
clerk in the postoffice, then under the
administration Of j. M. Hedrick, and
about 1870 he purchased the Postoffice
lobby news business Of A. L. Bonney,
which he has conducted ever since
with good measure of success to
himself and with entire satisfaction
to the public. His principal object
in going on the excursion was to To-
cate land warrant. He went from
here with the highest spirits, and ex-
pected to enjoy himself much on the
trip. and hurry back to see to his sue
cessful and rapidly increasing bust
ness. He wrote the CouR1ER from Mo-
berly, his brief postal card running
over with his splendid vitality, and
perhaps 10 man enjoyed life more ra-
tionally or was more unexpectedly
deprived of it, than Sherman Bailey,
The news did not reach here, of the
calamity, until nearly "a hours after
it occurred, and the event fell like a
pail on the entire community, for he
was universally known and respected.
His uncle, Major Hamilton, left for
the scene of the disaster on the first
train after receiving the sad news,
and will accompany the remains to
the home of his parents, at Chilli
Gothic, Ohio, for burial.
| He was young man of fine per-
sonal presence, good address, unex-
ceptionable habits and excellent phys
ical organization. He was devoted
to his business and had accumulated
capital rapidly since coming to OF
tumwa, and promised to become one
of our wealthicst and most influential
citizens. His sudden death has great.
ly afflicted his parents, and the fami-
ly of Major Hamilton, with whom he
had lived ever since coming to OF.
tumwa, and was regarded by them
with the affection and familiarity be.
slowed upon one of their own chill.
dren.
The entire community will sympa.
thize with them in their aflliction
and long remember the frank, manly
honest, noble, energetic and promis
ing Sherman III. Bailey. Ftt;F
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