The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1895-04-25
EZRA TRUESDELL DEAD.
Passed Away. Quietly r. Monday
Afternoon.

Passed Away. Quietly =. Monday
Afternoon.
Ezra Truesdell is dead. About 4
o'clock last Monday afternoon, sur
rounded by his wife and children and
friends and acquaintances, he breathed
his last. Conscious to the finish, a
moment before the vital spark went
out he predicted that the end was
near. Death resulted from heart fail
ure, superinduced by the grip and old
age. He had been confined to the
house several weeks before his death,
although it was not until the last week
that his illness became serious. Then
his illness assumed such an alarming
condition that his children were sum-
moned.
The funeral occurred from the Pres
byterian church at ? o'clock Tuesday
afternoon, Rev. John Sinclair Off
ciating. A large number of the
friends and acquaintances of the de-
ceased attended the funeral and fol-
lowed the remains to their last rest
ing-place.
Ezra Truesdell was born in Warsaw, New
York, he being one of family of six, five
boys and one girl. He came from revolu-
tionary stock. his grandfather on the moth
er's side having been drum major in Ethan
Aliens brigade in the revolutionary war. His
father fought against England in the war of
1912, and his oldest brother was in the Mex
ican war. Ezra Truesdell was born in 1913.
During his early years he attended school
but soon left the farm to learn the carpen-
ter trade. When but II years of age he as
sisted in the construction of the celebrated
bridge at Portage, New York. Shortly af-
terwards he came to Medina county, Ohio,
where he met Miss Rachel Mabie with whom
he soon engaged to wed. The Ohio marriage
laws preventing they crossed over to Penn
sylvania and were married, going from
there to the old home in New York. where
they lived two years. and then returned to
Median county. Ohio, where Mr. Truesdell
remained for sixteen years, working at
farming and carpenter work. In the spring
of 1859 he came to Cannon Falls, Mimi,
where he purchased farm, which he dis
posed of in 1865. He spent the next three
years in Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota. and
came here with his family in 1862 He came
up on one of the first steamboats, that piled
the waters of the Minnesota. Mr.. .Truesdell
purchased what is now the Miller farm, jnst
east of the city. and lived on that. ana In the
city at intervals until 1869. He also ran
feed and -four store in this city, but at the
time of his death was unable to do heavy
work.
He leaves a wife and eight children. He
was the father Of thirteen children, three of
which fought for the Union in the civil war
Gilbert, Lafayette and Sylvester, the
former giving his life for the cause. His
brother, Gideon Truesdell, built the first
six miles of rail1oad ever built in Wisconsin
and was member of the Wisconsin legisla-
ture. Another brother, Levi Truesdell,
opened the first salt we'll in Michigan.
Mr.. Truesdell was firm in his ideas. He
loved and cherished Republicanism. Born
in it's cradle, he afterwards become one of
it's nurses. He. too, was an honest man, and
no one can say that he wilfully wronged
them. He had his enemies while alive, but
in death even they will not withhold the
praises to which he is entitled.