Odie Edmiston
'DEATH COMES QUICKLY'
Odie Edmiston passes away in Atchison, Kansas, Saturday.
After an illness of only one day, Odie Edmiston passed away at 8:10 Saturday evening at his hotel in Atchison, Kansas, where he was employed as a cigar maker by the McClelland Cigar Company.
When awakened Saturday morning by a fellow workman, he complained of a headache and requested that his employer be notified that he did not feel well enough to work that day. In view of the poor health of Mr. Edmiston during the past few months, his friends were not alarmed, supposing his indisposition to be but temporary. At noon his cousin, Claude Moore, and others visited his room and in answer to inquiries as to his condition, were told by Odie that he was feeling quite well-better, if anything, than in the morning.
At 1:30 p.m. the landlord of the hotel visited the cigar factory and in apparent excitement requested some of the workman to go to the house with him as their friend appeared to be in a rather serious condition. Claude Moore went to the sick room at once and was immediately followed by E.B. McClelland, who had stopped to call a physician. At that time Odie was unconscious, a condition in which he remained to the end, despite the utmost efforts of the physicians and friends.
The remains were brought to Leon Sunday afternoon, accompanied by Messrs. McClelland, Moore and Gardner, and funeral services held at the home of his step-father, C.W. Beck on north Main Street at 2:30 p.m. the following day. Reverend W.H. llsley conducted the service at the residence after which the K.P. Lodge, of which deceased was a member, took charge of the remains and accompanied the funeral cortege to the Leon Cemetery. At the grave a brass quartette softly played "God Be With You Till We Meet Again", accompanied by a quartette of male voices, and all that was mortal of 'Dutch' Edmiston was tenderly consigned to the last long resting place.
Below is appended a short sketch of deceased, furnished by one who is familiar with his brief life.
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Odie Edmiston was born in Decatur County, Iowa, on the 10th day of September, 1876. His father, James H. Edmiston, was a soldier in Company I, 34th Regiment, Iowa Infantry, and died May 9, 1879. He and Ellen F. Huff were married in Decatur County, Iowa, September 30, 1868, and to this union only two of the children born lived to years of maturity. Now only an elder brother is left, with the mother, to mourn the late deceased. The mother lived in widowhood till her marriage to C.W. Beck on November 24, 1892.
Odie Edmiston was a young man of large acquaintance in Leon and was higly esteemed as an honest, industrious model young man. Much more could be said in praise of him, but the writer of this brief outline is willing to trust the merits of the deceased to an impartial and unbiased public.
Posted in Decatur County Journal-IowaJanuary 10, 1901