From: KyArchives [archives@genrecords.org] Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 9:10 PM To: Ky-Footsteps Subject: Derickson.C.T.,.Dr.1891.Montgomery.OBIT C. T. , DR Derickson March 21, 1891 Montgomery County KyArchives Obituaries newspaper A sad death. Dr. C. T. Derickson, beloved of all who knew him, an enemy to no man and no man was his enemy died at his home in this county Saturday morning, March 21, '91, at 4 a. m. , aged 47 years, and was buried with Masonic honors , at Bunker Hill on Sunday last. We all loved the Doctor; a nobler heart never beat in mans breast. The day before his death he had been riding, and last night he arose from the bed about nine o'clock and sat up by the fire, saying he could not sleep. He went into an adjoining room and soon returned and went to bed again, in the same room with his mother and grandmother, Aunt Peggy Johnson, about 11 o' clock they noticed he was breathing heavily, and called him, but he didn't answer. They then stirred up the fire and looked at him. His eyes were set in his head, and he was dying. Dr. Ed. Dean was summoned and arrived at 2 a. m., but he was past all medical skill. A bottle of landnum, which was in the adjoining room where he went, had been removed and a good portion of it had been taken out. The most plausible theory is that he undertook to quiet his nerves with laudnum so that he could sleep, and doubtless, in the dark, took too much. He leaves a mother, a grandmother, two sisters, Mrs Mary McDaniel, Mrs. Mag. Flanders, and one brother, Jas. H. Derickson, to mourn the loss of a loving son and brother. Submitted by: Carolyn Hale virgle.hale@sbcglobal.net This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/