The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-09-10
DEATH OF F. L. WATERS.
The Sad News Received in Man
katO Monday Causes
Shock to the Community.
His Illness Was Not Known to
His Many Friends in
This City

FRANK Walters died this morning.
Funeral Wednesday AFTERNOON at 2
O'clock" is the substance of tele-
gram received by DR.. Harrington and
Mr. j H. Ray at IL o'clock Monday fore
noon. The announcement came with
terrible force to his great number of
friends, as no one here had known
that he was ill, and to be notified of
his death was shock to the commu-
nifty, the like of which has not been
experienced in Mankato for a long
time.
1t seems, however, that Mr.. Wat
tiers had been ill for several days,
and DR.. Harrington, his family physi-
clan while resident of Mankato,
was summoned to his bedside ON
Thursday 'afternoon. The Doctor
answered the summons Immediately,
but could not reach Morton until
early Friday morning. He found Mr..
Walters very low at the time, and
left with the expectation of hearing Of
his death within very few days.
The Doctor. however, said nothing
about the affair on his return home,
but when the news reached here of
his death he said that he had feared
such result from the time of his
visitation on Friday. Heart failure
was the cause, and the Doctor said
that when he was there that there
was no possibility of his re-
cOvery. Mr.. Walters mind was clear,
however, and he expressed himself as
not afraid to die, although no intima-
tion of his low condition was comuni-
Gated to him.
Deceased was a native of Ohio, was
born May 1st, 1851, in Kent. When
quite young his parents removed to
Akron, the same state, where Frank
learned the trade of millright. He
came to MankatO to superintend the
construction of the Hubbard mill, in
which in 1880, he bought an interest,
and continued ttherewith until 1891,
when he sold his mill and other in
terests in Mankato and removed to
Morton, this state.
In that flourishing little town he
built a model mill, built for himself
and family pleasant home. and in
the full enjoyment of ,life and bust
ness prosperity he continued to dwell
until his sudden demise.
Frank Walters counted his friends
only by the limit of his acquaintance.
He was manly man, a companiona-
BILE companion. He never obtruded
himself upon others, and while of a
somewhat retiring nature, he was
possessed of most amiable DISPOSE
tion and genial temperament. He
had a most tender heart, and the
woes of others called forth from him
the tenderest of sympathy.
Every one who knew Mr.. Walters
will feel personal grief in his death.
His was the kind of nature that
makes the world brighter and better
and renders easier to bear the bur-
dens and disappointments which must
come to all. And while all will mourn
the death of Frank as a brother, the
wife and daughter are most deeply
afflicted and sOrely tried. He was
model husband, most indulgent and
considerable father.
Mr.. Walters illness was of short
duration. During the summer Mrs.
Walters and daughter Maud have
been visiting relatives in Ohio, and
returning home came via. the lakes.
Mr.. Walters wrote his wife just pre-
vious to her departure for home that
he was not feeling very well, but that
he would meet her in Minneapolis.
She wired him not to do so, that she
could get along all right. This was
the last communication between hus-
band wife until Tuesday, when Mrs.
Walters reached home to find her
husband confined to his bed. And
from the day of his taking to his bed,
about a week previous TO his death,
he gradually failed, until the end
came, peacefully and palnlessly.
The funeral will be held Wednes-
day afternoon at 2 o'clock. A num-
Der Of friends of the family from
Mankato expect to attend if railroad
connections are such as to make the
trip possible.