Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-02-10
Wednesday morning, February

Wednesday morning, February 8,
1898, Mr.. |. l.. Statzell, who for several
days had fingered so near Deaths door
passed away. Although he had been
very low, and for several days his
case seemed hopeless, yet he seemed to
his physicians and friends to have
gained so much that his recovery
seemed probable. 1t now transpires
that the depression was caused by
fall that Mr.. Statzell sustained while
alighting from motor car in Council
Bluffs on the evening of Tuesday, Jan
uary 18th, and at the supper table he
complained to Judge Thornell and Jim
Fulton fhis head hurting him. From
the time he was found at the Grand
Hotel until he submitted to the opera
ton which took place on last Tuesday
afternoon, February Sth, the watchers
at his bedside say he was rational but
a few moments at time. Walter
Copeland said that when he arrived at
Mr.. StatzelPs bedside he noticed a kerr
mel on the back of his head and that
his right side was paralyzed. Last
Monday he was removed from the
hotel to the Woman's Christian Hos
pital, in Council Bluffs, where it was
deemed advisable to have an operation
performed, to relieve the pressure on
the brain, as the only means of saving
his life. Accordingly on last Tuesday
afternoon Doctors Treynor and McCray
performed the operation, which con-
sisted of making an incission in the
back head and passing the knife around
toward the left ear, and they found the
brain to be in a highly inflamed condi-
ton. Mr.. Statzell seemed to immedi-
ately recover from the effects of the
operation, but the condition which had
existed all along prevailed and he rap
iply grew worse until the time of his
death, which occurred on the morning
of Wednesday, February 9th, ut $50
O'Clock. The body was brought to the
family home, in this city, on Thursday
morning where, in the afternoon, the
funeral was held, conducted by Rev.
H. J.. Wissler, assisted by the Congre-
gational Choir, and the remains were
consigned to mother earth in the Extra
Cemetery. The certificate of death re-
cites that the cause of death was cere-.
brium infusion. Mr.. 1. l.. Statzell was
the son of Mr.. Isaac and Abigail j.
! Griggs-Statzell and was born near
Danville, Hendricks county, Indiana,
on February l6, 1861, and was Sc years,
II months and % days of age at the
time OF his death. He came to Extra
about the year 1882, and it was here he
met and married Miss Dena Dodge.
/ To them were born five children, four
sons and one daughter. One son, Carl,
having preceded his father to the spir-
it world. Mr.. Statzell was a kind and
generous man, none ever came to him
for help and went away disappointed
if it was within his power to lend a
helping hand. He was one of those
men whose home and family was his
idol-home and family meant every
thing to him. He was not afraid to
stand for q cause which he believed to
be right. As Mayor of the city of Extra
he had showed himself both wise
and a man OF ability. Thus we realize
again the force of the words. In the
midst of life we are in death;' for the
life that so short a time ago promised
great things is so soon cut off. The de-
ceased carried a 100000 policy in the
| Workman order