The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-05-14
DROPPED DEAD
AT BREAkF AST
Martin Hoover Dies Very
Suddenly al Home.
WAS AN OLD RESIDENT
Had Been in Carpentering.
Business for Is Years.
HAD BEEN SICK FOR TIME
Found Monday Night at Court
House and Thought Dead.

Martin B. Hoover Of this city dropped
dead yesterday morning at the break
fast table Of his home. 1llO North Santa
Fe avenue. He was sitting at his &C
crstomed place ard remarked that he
didn't want anything and that ne felt
ILL., Il was but a few minutes after this
that he leaned back in his chair as Il
he were going to sleep. One Of his sons
saw that something was the matter and
went over TO him. He got no answer
to his questioning and carried his father
TO q sofa, but just as he laid him down,
the dying man breathed his last
Death came so swiftly and so quietly
that the family were at loss 10 com
I prehend The deceased had complained
o. being nervous and feeling sick FOR the
last two weeks. but had never said much
l. any Of the family about himself. de
got up yesterday morning and went
through the usual routine of work be-
fcre breakfast. He kindled the fire and
/ went out TO the barn TO do the chores.
When he came in from this work he COM
planned of feeling weak he lay down
Z
ready Rising then, he seated himself
az the table. For three days ne had
not eaten a bite, but Monday night he
ate very heartily Yesterday morning
ne said he did not want anything. He
has been seated about ten minutes when
ne fen into a deep sleep and died Of
heart failure
I was sitting opposite him. said Mr..
/ Grin Hoover to 4 reporter for the Eagle
Il noticed that he did not eat and when
I spoke TO him about it he said he felt
very weak and did not want 10 eat II
was only a little while until ] saw him
sink back in his chair / thought he was
going to sleep. but felt that something
wrong Getting up I went to him. but
was unable 10 arouse him. 1 called Mr.
Jeter, neighbor, and we carried him 20
a couch. Just as we laid him down,
saw him take his last breath. I looked
up at the clock and it was twenty-five
minutes past o'clock
1T was so unexpected. II dumbfounded
US all Father has complained for the
last two weeks or so. but never said any
thing that would make Us think that he
was bad Oft He spoke OF being nervous.
but was the kind that does not complain
Last night (Aionday) about O'Clock
heard him up and I went downstairs a
little later. but found him asleep. It
seemed a very sound sleep However. in
the morning before breakfast I sent =
Or. Purdue. but he did not arrive till
Just after father died.
That Mr.. Hoover has been feeling very
i'll is evidenced by an occurrence which
took place at the court house Monday
night, the evening before he died.
Marshall Bolton. custodian of the
building. said to a reporter for the
Eagle concerning this matter: Last
night / found M Hoover in the base
nent Of the court house. lying as if dead.
I thought he was and the men and
carried him 10 the window. The cool air
revived him and he got up after little
while and went home.
Mart Hoover, as he was called by
( his comrades. lived to be Sc years old.
He has been a carpenter in Wichita for
seventeen years. II is said by his MARI
friends that he was one Of the most
skilled artisans in this city. He served
through the entire civil war, fighting for
. fl ar years In the Tenth Indiana. company
1t was in Indiana that he was born
and raised. He came TO this city from
( Burlington. where re learned the trade
% cabinet making.
The deceased leaves a wife and six
children. Three daughters are married.
and are Mrs C. Kenworthy. Ms W
Isenhart and Mrs. J. Austin. There is
one daughter at home and two sons.
Nessrs. Charles and Grin Hoover