BURTON
Samuel Delos
1847 - 1918
Sarah Elizabeth (n. Pope)
HIS WIFE
1850 - 1918
From Streator Daily Free Press, Monday, October 7, 1918:

DELOS BURTON PASSES AWAY

   Manville Farmer Lives His Allotted Span Of Years--Buried On Birthday.  Delos Burton, who lived one mile west of Manville, lived his allotted three score years and ten.  Just four days before his seventy-first birthday he passed away at his home after a lingering illness caused by dropsy*.  He will be laid to rest on his birthday, October 10.  The deceased was a resident of the vicinity near Manville for forty-five years, so was well known in that community.  Delos Burton was born Oct. 10, 1847, at Coalville, Ill.  He was united in marriage Dec. 20, 1870, to Miss Elizabeth Pope.  Three years later the couple moved to the homestead near Manville, where the wife and one son, Edward, still live.  One other son, Samuel, and a daughter, Mrs. Will Allen, also survive.  Three other children have preceded the father to the Great Beyond  One brother, John Burton, of Coalville, is left to mourn the loss of the well known farmer  Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at the home at 2 p.m.  Interment will be in Moon cemetery where the father will be laid to rest by the side of the three children.


*Shortened from hydropisy, commonly called "edema" today, symptomatic of congestive heart failure or advanced kidney disease.

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