DEATH OF LEVI TRUESDELL

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 - PASSED AWAY IN HAWICK, KANDIYOHI COUNTY, THURSDAY AFTERNOON -

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      Levi Truesdell, for many years a resident of Redwood Falls, passed away at this harness shop in Hawick, a small town in the NE corner of Kandiyohi County, last Thursday afternoon.  The first information of his demise was received here over the long distance telephone to the noble grand of the local lodge of Odd Fellows, of which Mr. Truesdell was a member and Undertaker Grapp was at once ordered to Hawick to take charge of the remains and have them brought to Redwood Falls.  Mr. Truesdell passed away as the result of a severe attack of rheumatism from which he has long been suffering. 

     Mr. Truesdell was a man without a known enemy in all the world.  He was born in Ohio.  With his parents he cam to Minnesota in the early days.  His late parents, Ezra Truesdell and family came to Redwood Falls in 1868, but Levi had married in the mean time and his wife not being in perfect health, he went with her to Tennessee, where two children were born and where Mrs. Truesdell passed away.  Levi and the two children then came to Redwood Falls and he was first employed as a carpenter with S. T. Bunch.  Afterwards he opened up a harness shop on Mill Street and plied that vocation until about ten years ago.  In the mean time one of his two children - a son, had passed away and the daughter, Miss Nettie, had married, moved to Minneapolis where she too, joined the mother and brother in the world beyond.  About eight years ago Mr. Truesdell went to Kandiyohi county and in Hawick he opened a harness shop, where he lived in solitude, working at his trade, boarding and lodging himself and mingling but very little w/the outside world.  He was between 70 and 75 years of age.  He was a member of Redwood lodge of Odd Fellows and of Antiquity lodge No. 91, A. F. & A. M.  Two brothers, Frank and Bertie, and one sister, all three residing in California, are all that remains of the once large Truesdell family of the early days of Redwood Falls.  The body arrived here on the St. Louis train from the west early Sunday morning and was met by J. W. Thomas and Alex. Dennistoun, a committee from the Odd Fellows lodge and taken to Grapp's undertaking rooms.  The funeral was held from the Presbyterian church commencing at 2:30 in the afternoon, Rev. E. C. Nicholson of the Christian Church, officiating.  The remains were interred in Redwood Cemetery, Redwood lodge No. 68, I. O. O. F., acting as escort and conducting services at the grave.