The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-05-18
Additional Local.


After two years of occasional heart
trouble and several weeks serious i'll
ness, on Sunday, May 10, at his home
in Hillsdale, the final summons came To
4. A. Blackman, proprietor OF the Hills
dale Democrat and editor OF the Cold
water Sun.
Edgar Blackman was born in Paw
Paw i'm 1915 and first set type on the
TRUE NORTHERNER. In 1867 he started
the Van Buren, County Republican, but
i'm 1872 became a supporter of Horace
Greeley, finally selling out the paper
and purchasing the Paw Paw Courier
which he afterward consolidated with
the Free Press. 1t is about eight years
ago that Mr.. Blackman severed his
connection with the paper here, going
first to Flint, where he was business man
ager for the Eddy Publishing Company
for one year, and thence to Port Huron,
he edited the Tribune for year,
and finally settling in Hillsdale, in that
lovely city making pleasant home and
gathering about him large circle OF
warm friends. About six months ago
he relinquished the active management
of the Democrat to his son Hiram,
spending most of his time on the Cold
water Sun, in which paper he had pur.
cnaScu I'LL lubcIcSb. LINUS, tuOuRh Quill
i'm the prime of life, his experience in
newspaper work had been varied and
he was widely known in newspaper
circles as an able journalist, having
been last summer elected president of
the West Michigan Press Association.
lie was buried with Masonic honors
on Yesterday afternoon, the services
being held in the Methodist church of
this village with large attendance of
Paw Paw friends and acquaintance.
Mr.. Blackman's death leaves vacant
chair in an unusually happy home cir
Gle comprising wife, one son, and two
daughters, to whom the sympathy of
the entire community, here as well as
at Hillsdale, will be extended.
The grim reaper from which no home
circle is spared on Monday entered the
household of +. w. Sellick at Kalama-
ZOO, bearing away the spirit of the
faithful wife who for many years had
borne the cross of physical suffering
with a patient resignation that will
surely win the crown of eternal rest and
joy. Born in Oneida county, N. Y, in
1885 and coming thence in infancy, Mrs.
Sellick had lived in Paw Paw many
years during which she gained the re-
spect and friendship of all her asso-
ciates, and il was with sincere regret
that they witnessed her removal to
Kalamazoo some five years since, where
she went to reside with her only daugh-
ter Grace, soon after the marriage of
the latter to Mr.. John Windoes of that
city.
After the sudden death of Mrs Win
does, Mrs. Sellick being DESTROYS to re-
main at Kalamazoo, their beautiful
home here was sold and just two years
ago Mr.. and Mrs. Sellick took up their
abode in the fine new residence which
her i'll health has never permitted its
mistress fully to enjoy. The best med
ical skill of the country was consulted
in vain, and within the last month her
malady developed into unmistakable
heart trouble Mrs. Sarah Barnum,
Mrs. Mary Parker, and Mrs. o. f.
Parker of this place are sisters of the
deceased and the latter was with her
during the last ten days of her illness.
The funeral will be held from the
home to-day at 2 p. m. and the remains
laid to rest beside the tomb OF her be-
loved daughter within the precincts of
beautiful "Mountain Home" cemetery.
Gull hHOlucI vi OllI NlIiHtuS HIS DccIl
stricken down in the prime of life by
that dread malady, Brights disease,
and j L. Trrell breathed his last at
midnight of Monday, May l6.
Deceased was born at Plainlield,
Mass, April TO- 1S4l, and came to Paw
Paw in the fall of 1868. On Sept. B,
1868, he was married to Miss Cynthia
Stuyvesant, and for nearly quarter
century has carried on his business as
drayman among us, IL loyal citizen, a
genial, kind-hearted man, faithful
friend, and q loving husband and father
who will be most sadly missed by the
wife and son that survive him.
Although in rather poor health for
several years, his friends had not gener.
ally considered him seriously i'll until
the last few weeks, SO that the blow
derives added force from its seeming
suddenness The funeral will be con-
Quoted by the Odd Fellows on Thursday
afternoon.
John Spacheen, after long and pain
ful illness, died at his home west of