SINGLETON, James 'Jim' died 1877

SINGLETON, ALBERT, GILCHRIST

Posted By: S. Ferrall - IAGenWeb volunteer
Date: 9/14/2024 at 16:51:49

Our community was shocked on Saturday last to receive from Keokuk the telegraphic news of the sudden death of Mr. James Singleton, a former well known resident of French Creek township, in this county. No particulars were received, and not until Monday did the friends and relatives here learn them fully.

For some years Mr. Singleton was troubled with heart disease, but not to such an extent as to cause any particular alarm, notwithstanding the fact farm labor was too laborious for him and for that reason he disposed of his farm last year and removed to Keokuk where he engaged in the mercantile trade.

Mr. Singleton had been down to his store the day previous to his death and appeared to be in his usual health. On Saturday morning about thee o'clock he complained of being thirsty and raised up in bed for the purpose of getting a drink of water, when he suddenly fell back into his wife's arms, dead.

The deceased was about 40 years, of age. His wife is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E.T. Albert and a sister of Geo. Albert.

He was a gentleman well esteemed for his many good qualities and his genial, social and companionable ways; who always made warm and lasting friends among those whom he mingled. It is hard to think that we shall never again have the pleasure of grasping the friendly hand of poor "Jim" as he was familiarly called.

The remains will be interred in Mt. Hope Cemetery, and are expected to arrive in this city this morning by steamboat.

He leaves a wife and four children to mourn his sudden and untimely death.

~North Iowa Journal, Wednesday, October 24, 1877; pg 4

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The Lansing Mirror, Friday, Oct. 26, 1877, pg 1, also printed a similar obit. Add'l items included were:
- deceased was a native of West Virginia
- "At the breaking out of the rebellion, although surrounded on all sides by rampant treason, his patriotic impulses enabled him to stand firm, and he enlisted in a cavalry regiment, subsequently receiving a lieutenant's commission. He was a brave and gallant officer, and often referred with pardonable pride to the adventures through which he safely pass during so many years of imminent peril."
- "The remains brought to this place and were taken to the home of his aged parents, at the residence of Mr. J. Gilchrist, in Union City, from whence they were interred yesterday morning, in the Mt. Hope Cemetery."