Alex Chaussee Died Yesterday - Resident of Clay County Since 1862 Died at Home of Daughter Yesterday Afternoon
Alexander Chaussee, a resident of Clay county since 1862, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Norman Washburn, five miles west of Vermillion at 3:00 o'clock yesterday afternoon. He had been in failing health since last December and was a patient at a hospital here during the month of January. Mr. Chaussee was born at Dubuque, Iowa, on March 5, 1851, being 77 years old at the time of his death. When he was 11 years old he came to Clay county with his parents, they homesteading four miles straight east of Vermillion. He had been a resident of this county ever since. In 1874 he married Miss Mary McGrath and four children blessed this union, one dying in infancy. His wife passed away on June 7, 1889, and four years later he retired from active farming. Since then he has made his home in Vermillion and with his daughters. Immediate relatives surviving him are his three daughters, Mrs. Norman Washburn and Mrs. Zoway Shurtleff of this community, Mrs. Clara Olson of Sioux City; four brothers, George of Judith Gap, Montana, Victor, Oliver and Charles, of Vermillion; and one sister, Mrs. Emily Z. Brady, of Hot Springs, South Dakota. Mrs. Brady has been here for the past week. Funeral services will be held from St. Agnes Catholic church, of which he was a member, at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. Interment will be made in Fairview cemetery by the side of his wife. Vermillion Plain Talk, Vermillion, South Dakota, May 31, 1928
Alexander Chaussee, a resident of Clay county since 1862, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Norman Washburn, five miles west of Vermillion at 3:00 o'clock yesterday afternoon. He had been in failing health since last December and was a patient at a hospital here during the month of January. Mr. Chaussee was born at Dubuque, Iowa, on March 5, 1851, being 77 years old at the time of his death. When he was 11 years old he came to Clay county with his parents, they homesteading four miles straight east of Vermillion. He had been a resident of this county ever since. In 1874 he married Miss Mary McGrath and four children blessed this union, one dying in infancy. His wife passed away on June 7, 1889, and four years later he retired from active farming. Since then he has made his home in Vermillion and with his daughters. Immediate relatives surviving him are his three daughters, Mrs. Norman Washburn and Mrs. Zoway Shurtleff of this community, Mrs. Clara Olson of Sioux City; four brothers, George of Judith Gap, Montana, Victor, Oliver and Charles, of Vermillion; and one sister, Mrs. Emily Z. Brady, of Hot Springs, South Dakota. Mrs. Brady has been here for the past week. Funeral services will be held from St. Agnes Catholic church, of which he was a member, at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. Interment will be made in Fairview cemetery by the side of his wife. Vermillion Plain Talk, Vermillion, South Dakota, May 31, 1928
Alex Chaussee Died Yesterday - Resident of Clay County Since 1862 Died at Home of Daughter Yesterday Afternoon
Alexander Chaussee, a resident of Clay county since 1862, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Norman Washburn, five miles west of Vermillion at 3:00 o'clock yesterday afternoon. He had been in failing health since last December and was a patient at a hospital here during the month of January. Mr. Chaussee was born at Dubuque, Iowa, on March 5, 1851, being 77 years old at the time of his death. When he was 11 years old he came to Clay county with his parents, they homesteading four miles straight east of Vermillion. He had been a resident of this county ever since. In 1874 he married Miss Mary McGrath and four children blessed this union, one dying in infancy. His wife passed away on June 7, 1889, and four years later he retired from active farming. Since then he has made his home in Vermillion and with his daughters. Immediate relatives surviving him are his three daughters, Mrs. Norman Washburn and Mrs. Zoway Shurtleff of this community, Mrs. Clara Olson of Sioux City; four brothers, George of Judith Gap, Montana, Victor, Oliver and Charles, of Vermillion; and one sister, Mrs. Emily Z. Brady, of Hot Springs, South Dakota. Mrs. Brady has been here for the past week. Funeral services will be held from St. Agnes Catholic church, of which he was a member, at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. Interment will be made in Fairview cemetery by the side of his wife. Vermillion Plain Talk, Vermillion, South Dakota, May 31, 1928
Alexander Chaussee, a resident of Clay county since 1862, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Norman Washburn, five miles west of Vermillion at 3:00 o'clock yesterday afternoon. He had been in failing health since last December and was a patient at a hospital here during the month of January. Mr. Chaussee was born at Dubuque, Iowa, on March 5, 1851, being 77 years old at the time of his death. When he was 11 years old he came to Clay county with his parents, they homesteading four miles straight east of Vermillion. He had been a resident of this county ever since. In 1874 he married Miss Mary McGrath and four children blessed this union, one dying in infancy. His wife passed away on June 7, 1889, and four years later he retired from active farming. Since then he has made his home in Vermillion and with his daughters. Immediate relatives surviving him are his three daughters, Mrs. Norman Washburn and Mrs. Zoway Shurtleff of this community, Mrs. Clara Olson of Sioux City; four brothers, George of Judith Gap, Montana, Victor, Oliver and Charles, of Vermillion; and one sister, Mrs. Emily Z. Brady, of Hot Springs, South Dakota. Mrs. Brady has been here for the past week. Funeral services will be held from St. Agnes Catholic church, of which he was a member, at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. Interment will be made in Fairview cemetery by the side of his wife. Vermillion Plain Talk, Vermillion, South Dakota, May 31, 1928
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