The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-05-12
OBITUARY.

Ind. His early education was received
in the public schools of his home
county. Later he graduated from the
Tri-State Normal College of Angola,
Ind. Later be attended the State
Normal School at Terra Haute, Ind,
from which he graduated in the year
1892. He made his way through the
higher schools by his WI %endeavor-
the money being earned for the most
part by teaching. On June 23rd,
1891. he was married to Miss Deette
Dalton. After graduating from the
Terra Haute school, Mr.. Seagley
decided to fit himself for the medical
profession. In the Fall of the next
year, he entered the college Of
Physicians and Surgeons in Chicago,
from which institution he graduated
in the year 1896. He remained in
Chicago, doing special work in the
hospitals for one year after graduating,
then practiced for a short time at
Kendallville, Ind, then in southern
and central Illinois-frst at Humboldt,
then at Thomasbo1o for three or four
years. In the year 1901, he began the
practice of his profession in Scotland,
years.
In 1906, the doctor took up a claim
in Lyman CO., near the town Of
Presho. After proving up on his
claim ha ratrrna5 to Sootiand ra-
naming two years more. Then
desiring to be where he could care for
and improve his Lyman Co., possess
ions, he returned to Presho in April
1909. He was very successful in his
work and soon acquired a large
practice. The work was exceedingly
hard, entailing a great number of
long and tedious drives. Besides his
professional duties he had taken great
interest in the growth and develop
ment of the town. both as regards
material and spiritual affairs. Mems
constitutions are not of iron, aud the
doctors gave way under the strain.
About a week before his death, he had
an attack of heart disease which was
very severe. On Wednesday, May 4th,
he got up feeling about as usual-went
through the routine of the early
mornings work. But when coming
to the house he complained of feeling
unwell. Pain took him in the region
of the heart. For a while Mrs. Seagley
doctored him under his own directions,
but as he grew worse a physician was
summoned and everything was done to
relieve the suffering man. At first he
lay down on the bed but as the agony
increased he got down on the floor.
The attending physician labored hard
to relieve him but nothing seemed to
be of use. While the doctor was
preparing medicine in the adjoining
room, the face of the suffering man
suddenly took on In awful look Of
agony, turning livid and purple, his
limbs cramped and he fairly dug his
nails into the floor. The doctor hurried
in and he and Mrs. Seagley turned
him on his back, working hard to
II ICSlOlO SIS1S VI ~ OfOA olLOA was
certain that there was no life there.
Even DR.. Seagley's most intimate
friends did not know that he had ever
had ever a symptom of heart trouble.
To only two as far as known had he
ever disclosed such a possibility. To
Prof. Sherwood, while he was living
at his home in Scotland, the doctor
mentioned a possibility and to his
nephew, Melvin Pontius, he said that
some day the horses would come home
and he would be dead in the buggy.
In all his residence in Scotland,
DR.. Seagley was a true man, always
on the square. He was very successful
in the practice of medicine and dealt
honestly and squarely with his
patients. He joined the Evangelical
church while a young man; later in
life, he and his wife joined the
Methodist Episcopal church. They
were both very active in the work of
the church, and in every other good
enterprise that was carried on in the
community. The friends that he won
were OF the staunchest kind and now
in his loss they feel that not only has
a sad bereavement come to his loved
ones. but also a great calamity to the
whole community. The doctor was
always considered strong and rugged
physically. When the first news of
his death came, the thought was thai
some accident had befalIen him, and
to those who knew him, it seemed
incredible that he had died with
disease of the heart.
The friends and relatives who fol
the most part live in Indiana. were al
once notified and came as quickly a.
possible. The funeral services were
ha1d Sunday n m of 9 .90 0'clonk al