The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1900-01-03
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 3, 1900.
c. n. PEASE DEAD.
Passed Away Suddenly Last Tues
day Evening.

of this county, passed away at his
home in Delhi very suddenly be-
tween nine and ten o'clock last
| Tuesday evening. Heart failure
was the cause of death.
| The news came as a shock to all
who knew the deceased. He had
been in excellent health up to the
time of his demise. On Tuesday
evening he retired early, as was
his usual custom, and shortly after
wards Mrs. Pease followed him to
bed. Mr.. Pease appeared to be
resting easily, but after an interval
of ID or 20 minutes she felt his arm
strike her, as if her husband had
raised it in the air and let it fall
upon her. She inquired what was
the matter but received no response
and shortly afterwards discovered
that her husband was lifeless.
Mrs. Pease was alone in the house
with her husband when death came,
and as soon as possible aroused the
neighbors to inform them what had
happened. A few minutes later the
news was telephoned to Sheriff
Pease in this city, and in the mean
time the good people of Delhi had
volunteered their services to the
bereaved wife.
The funeral was conducted from
the Presbyterian church in Delhi.
of which the deceased was men,
Der, commencing at 10 clock Thurs
/ day morning, and despite the ex-
tremely cold weather the many
friends and neighbours of the de-
ceased from town and country, at
tended in large numbers. The pas
tor of the church, Rev Herbert Nc
Henry, touched gently on the career
OF the deceased, and during his re-
marks, stated that for man who
was not theological student. Mr.
Pease had advanced more good
ideas and opinions to him than he
had received from the average lay
man. The remains were brought
to Redwood Falls and laid to rest in
the family plot in the Redwood GEM
etery
With the passing away of Column
bus N. Pease the light OF life has
been turned down on one who has
been a sturdy yeoman all his life.
Born on a farm, reared on a farm,
tilling farm, and passing away
with no other occupation but the
one of farmer. which he has al
ways held in hi Oh esteem. is Mr..
Pease $ history in brief. He cared
for nought else but the peaceful
pursuit of agriculture. He was born
in the town of New Fayne, about %
miles up the lake from Buffalo, New
York in August of 1880, and conse-
quentlv was almost IS years of age
when he SO peacefully passed into
the great beyond to meet his Maker.
He was one of three children. two
brothers and sister When Co
lumbus was about two years old his
father died and Mrs Pease, with the
aid of a brother, supplied the family.
The latter. however. shortly after
ward lost all the money he had in the
Erie canal. and after this misfortune
Mrs. Pease with her three children.
accompanied by her brother. took
prairie schooner passage to north
ern Illinois. Here they remained
about one year. when Columbus
brother went north into Fon du
Lac county. Wisconsin, where he
secured a farm in Rosendale town
ship, and Mrs. Pease, with her son
and daughter, moved there the
same year The deceased secured
a piece of land in that township,
and remained there until 1870 ac-
cumulating some wealth In that
year he sold out and went to Mis-
souri,. where. at the end of six
years. he lost all of the money he
had made, and then moved his fam
lily north to Goodhue county. Mn
nesota, settling on farm near Yum
brota, where he resided until 1887,
when he moved to Redwood county.
and settled on the Pease homestead
in Kintire township, which he per-
sonally conducted up to 1891, when
advancing age caused him to turn
over the management of the farm to
his son, Ed. A.. and with his wife.