The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-07-02
Sudden Death
|. Of Lewis Weiigel

Sunday morning, the twenty-seventh
of June at o'clock, after an illness
of only few hours. Deceased was
81 years old, and apparently had re-
ceived premonitions that the call
might come at any time.
Mr.. Weigel came to Blackfoot on
Saturday afternoon, and was return
ing with a load of coal and some
other supplies when he was stricken
with paralysis. The team stopped in
the road and within a few minutes he
was surrounded by friends who sum-
moned a physician and cared for him
until he could be taken home, but
he did not regain consciousness, and
passed out quietly the following
morning.
Mr.. Weigel has been failing rapidly
for year or more, and recently men
toned little matters to his wife so
that she would have all the informa-
tion which she would naturally feel
the need of in adjusting his affairs
if it should become necessary. He
Just mentioned such things casually,
soberly, pleasantly, in way that
could arouse no uneasiness or in
quiry. He had been in the habit Of
driving a rather spirited team, but
Saturday he drove gentle horses.
When the coal was loaded he got a
couple of sacks of grain and had
them placed just back of the spring
seat, side by side, lengthwise of the
wagon and on level with the seat.
The seat had no back, and the cush-
ion and the two sacks formed COM
Portable place of repose on which
they found him. AS he was leaving
town he stopped in front of his sons
house and chatted a moment, and
declined an invitation to dine with
them, saying he had a slight head
ache and believed he would prefer
to ride on without eating. At Eliza
Wilson's farm he observed some
body's operations in the stable yard
as he rode by, and turned to look
back as if studying the matter with
Some interest. Just west of the house
he crossed a little bridge and the
team stopped. Others passing that
way within few moments found him
lying on his back on the seat and
the sacks, unconscious but breathing
naturally. All efforts to restore con-
sciousness failed, and silence and alb
solute reposed marked the end the
next morning.
The funeral services were conduct
ed from the residence west of River
side on Wednesday afternoon, Rev.
R. L. L. Barnstable of the Methodist
church officiating in conjunction
with Bishop J. R. Williams. The
Order of Odd Fellows took charge on
leaving the house, and the remains
were laid to rest in the Riverside
Thomas cemetery.
Obituary
j. Lewis Weigel was born in Ohio
in 1848, and lived most of his life
in Iowa. In the year 1879 he mar
ried Miss Rebecca Hendricks at
Prairie City, Iowa, and they have
two sons and a daughter. ]. M.
Weigel, the eldest son, is married
and lives at Blackfoot. Harry L.
lives at the parental home, and the
daughter, Mrs. J. J. Clause lives at
Ogden, Utah, but they are spending
the summer at Black Pine, Idaho, a
new settlement in the southwest cor
ner of Oneida county.
The Weigel family moved to River
side in the year 1900, and purchased
a farm belonging to the Behle estate.
Mr.. Weigel was a man of quiet de-
meanor, very companionable and
kind, man of simple tastes and
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