Died, at the residence of his father
on Huron street, early on Saturday
morning, of Consumption, Charles H.
Garretson, eldest son of Justice Gar-
reteon, aged nearly 27 years. The
funeral was held on Wednesday
morning, May 1, at the M. F. church,
Flat Rock, and the body was placed
in the vau't of the Oak wood cemetery.
Charlie left home in January, 1886,
soon after the death of his mother, to
seek a home in the Black Hills of
Dakota, where with his uncle, Peter | ,

L, Rogers, a mineral surveyor and

|

 

engineer of Deadwood, he commenced
the work of surveying among the
rocks, boulders and snow drifts of that
frigid mountain country. This work
greeing with him, and his health,
which at home had been rather deli
cute, beginning to improve rapidly, he
‘sent for his brother to come and take
i his place.” Iu April fo.lowing he took
_ | the position “of reporter for the Black
‘1] Hills Daily Times; published in the
:| city of Deadwood, at a good ealury,
t t this work he continued for’a year |!
{or more, but the laborious work, heing |.
constantly in the saddle, exposed to!
feyclones and floods, snow, rain and
storme, aiid all kinds of weather, be-
came too severe for lis impaired
health, when he resolved to return to
his home in Michigan’ He came
home about a year ago, and for a time
engaged in the livery ‘business; but
the dire disease consumption had laid
its fatal hand upon him. He often
expressed the flittering hope that the
warm spring time would give him
strength and bring him back to health
avain; but this was not allowed to
him, and a week or more ago it was
seen that he was failing rapidly, and
his absent brother and friends were
sent for, but failed to arrive in time to
see him hefore he died.

   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
  

    
  
   

i