11 Nov 1942, Alton Evening Telegraph, Alton, Illinois
Henry Noll of Virden, 46, died Tuesday after a long illness, and his funeral will be held Friday morning from St. Catherine’s Church, Virden. Alton relatives plan to attend the funeral.
He was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Noll of Virden, and is survived by his wife and two children. He was a nephew of Miss Annie Ward of Granite City and a cousin of Philip Blackburn of 411 Belleview avenue and of Mrs. Frank S. Womack of 2746 Hillcrest avenue.
Mr. Noll’s sister, Mrs. Eleanor Clabough, wife of State Representative Clabough of Champagin, died two weeks ago.
5 Nov 1943, Alton Evening Telegraph, Alton, Illinois
Mrs. Laura Russell Dies at Age 87
Mrs. Laura A. Russelll, 87, widow of George S. Russell, whose death occurred in 1925, died today at 4:30 a.m., in St. Anthony’s Infirmary, where she was a patient for eight months. Mrs. Russell was moved to the infirmary following a fall in which she broke her wrist.
She is survived by two sons, Frank and Leland Russell of Alton, and a grandson, Nelson Russell of Winnetka, Ill. She also leaves a nephew, George Jones, and two nieces, the Misses Nellie I. and Lucy Jones.
Mrs. Russell, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Williamson Jones of Alton, was born in Alton. With the exception of two years, when she resided in St. Louis, Mrs. Russell, who lived at 1224 State street, spent her life in the 1200 and 1300 blocks on State street.
She taught in Irving School, preceding her sister, Miss Lucy Belle Jones, who died Oct 16, 1942.
Mrs. Russell was a descendant of William Clark, American explorer, and of the McMahon family, a descendant of the only survivor of an Indian massacre at Waterloo. Her grandmother was the only person to escape alive when Indians attacked the settlement.
She was the eldest member of the First Methodist Church, and a member of the Queen Esther Class and Circle No. 1 of the Women’s Society of Christian Service, church organizations.
Funeral services will be conducted by the Rev. O.F. Whitlock, pastor of the First Methodist Church, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Leland S. Russell, 923 Logan street, at 2 p.m. Sunday. Burial will be in the family lot in City Cemetery.
Friends may view the body at the Russell residence after 1 p.m. Saturday.
Sophia Arthurs was married to Thomas C. Baker in Indiana County, PA in February of 1869. The next month, Thomas and his bride moved to McMinnville, Tennessee along with Thomas’s parents and siblings. Perhaps they married quickly before the move. She had to say goodbye to her family and start over in a new state with her new husband and his family.
She didn’t live in Tennessee for long. Less than two years later, Thomas returned to Indiana county, PA with her body for burial.
11 Jan 1871, Indiana Weekly Messenger, Indiana county, PA
BAKER – On the 4th inst., near M’Minville Tennessee Sophia wife of Mr. Clark Baker and daughter of Mr. Thomas Arthurs of East Mahoning tp, this country. The bereaved husband passed through this place on Friday last, with the corpse of his deceased wife, and she was interred on Sabbath at Gilgal burial ground.
Theodore Sanchez was my Grandpa Don’s only brother (they had a lot of sisters). He and his wife died tragically of carbon dioxide poisoning in their home in San Mateo, CA in 1977. As far as I know, they didn’t have any children.
30 January 1977, The Times, San Mateo, CA
THEODORE SANCHEZ
BILLIE G. SANCHEZ
Double funeral services will be held at 2 p.m., Friday, for Theodore Sanchez, 66, and his wife, Billie G. Sanchez, 63, who perished of carbon monoxide gas in their air-tight South San Francisco home last Sunday.
The couple lived at 132 Drake St. for 17 years.
Sanchez was a native of Minnesota and a retired warehouseman, according to a spokesman for the San Bruno Funeral Home, where services will be conducted in San Bruno.
He is survived by a brother, Donald, of Centralia, Wash., five sisters, Leonarda Rindahl, Luella Keene, and Charlotte Runte, all of Seattle, Wash., and Geneva Hanson and Juanita Lorees, both of Minneapolis, Minn.
Mrs. Sanchez, a native of Alaska, is survived by her mother, Mrs. Jennie Murphy of Seattle.
Interment will be at Skylawn Memorial Park.
Have you ever heard of anyone dying from the hiccups?
I don’t think that was actually his cause of death, but it seems to have been a contributing factor.
I found this obituary in 16 Jan 1907 issue of the Jeffersonian Gazette (out of Lawrence, KS).
Friday.
Hiccoughed Three Days.
William Marshall, an Old-Timer, Died this Morning at his Home.
William Marshall, a resident of Blue Mound neighborhood for many years, and one of the well-known citizens of Douglas county, died this morning at his home. His death was occasioned by nervousness and stomach trouble, and he had been greatly weakened by an attack of hiccoughing which lasted for three days continuously.
The funeral will be held on Monday morning at 10 o’clock, from the house, and the services will be conducted by Rev. Lawrence of the United Presbyterian church.
Mr. Marshall was born on December 25, 1820, and had consequently lived far beyond the period allotted the average man, he was comparatively hale and hearty: however, until the last sickness.
