The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-03-10
FRED. WYMAN DEAD.
UnderWOod's Well-knOWn Farmer
Passed Away Feb. 25th.

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The death of Fred. A. Wyman of
Underwood occurred at his home in
that township on Friday, Feb. 25th.
The death was not known in this city
generally until last Friday, when T.
D. Barber, brother-in-law of the de-
ceased, came down from Vesta with
the sad intelligence. Consumption
was the cause of death.
Mr.. Wyman had been suffering
from consumption for several years
prior to his demise. When it was no.
ticed that the disease was in the first
stage he was advised to change his
place of residence, with the view of
prolonging his life, but Mr.. Wyman
doubted the ability of another climate
to cure the disease, and he preferred
spending his remaining days on the
farm in Underwood. Several weeks
ago he entered sanitarium at Mime
apolis, and was given relief, but about
the time he felts the effects of the
treatment the sanitarium was de-
stroyed by fire, and Mr.. Wyman came
home. He meyer returned for further
treatment. About couple of weeks
prior to his death he commenced to
sink rapidly, and his relatives were
notified several days before his de-
mise of the coming dissolution of
earthly ties. On the afternoon of
Feb. 25th the parting came, and the
last spark of life went out.
The funeral occurred from the farm
residence of the deceased on the fol-
lowing Sunday. 1t was largely attend
ed-in fact, hundreds of friends and
acquaintances of the deceased, we're
present to pay final tribute to the
memory of Fred Wyman. John Specht
of Minneapolis, speaker of consider
able ability, delivered the funeral
eulogy, and IS the last words we're
spoken the remains we're escorted to
the Echo cemetery, where they we're
placed in their final resting place.
Hundreds of people followed them to
the cemetery, and the concourse was
pronounced the largest ever seen in
that section.
It was the writer's good fortune to
have known Fred. A. Wyman from
the first year that he set foot in Red
wood county. This was in 1879, when
Mr.. Wyman, with two or three other
young men from Wisconsin, came in a
prairie schooner to Vesta township,
and tied up at the farm of Mrs. Mary
Barber, where the writer was then
herding cattle. From his first appear
ance at the Barber homestead Fred.
was liked by the settlers in that then
sparsely settled neighborhood. He
had winning ways, honest and upright
opinions, and fully determined to be
one of the men to redeem that section
from wilderness into garden spot.
he looked over Vesta, then an unor-
ganized township, and Underwood
thoroughly, with the view of finding a
suitable homestead, and finally made
an entry on the land he occupied as
his homestead up to the time of his
death.
No sooner had Mr.. Wyman made
his entry than he commenced working
on the farm, and his yearly tireless
work is to-day shown in the beautiful
farm that overlooks the Redwood riv-
er flowing through that section of the
county. His residence is on the side
hill, beautifully situated, beautifully
surrounded, and his outbuildings
show the owner to have been thrifty
farmer. Two of Redwood Falls lead
ing men, the one a banker and the
other real estate man, pay Mr.. Wy