This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sanders, Ballinger Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4307 Message Board Post: THE FREMONT COUNTY HERALD. April 17, 1902. "Death of Bert Sanders".-- Bert Hamilton Sanders was born in Fremont county, Iowa, August 25, 1874 and died at the home of his parents two and one-half miles northeast of Sidney, Sunday, April 13, 1902. Bert, as he was familiarly called by his many friends, had spent all of his life in this county save a few months during the year 1897 when he visited relatives in Kansas and learned telegraphy, but made no practical use of this knowledge on account of failing health. He was a dutiful son, well loved and had the happy faculty of making friends of all with whom he came in contact. He attended the Sidney schools until he had passed the grammar room and then commenced the work on the farm of his father. On August 7, 1897, he had the misfortune to have his left hand caught in the machinery of a threshing machine, making amputation of the member necessary and the effect of which was the primary cause of his illness which terminated fatally last Sunday, his health beginning to decline soon after the operation and finally consummated in that dread scourge consumption. Bert Sanders was the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Sanders and leaves both father and mother, two brothers and two sisters to mourn his loss, the brothers being Orval and George and the sisters, Mrs. Pearl Ballinger and Miss Anna Sanders, all of whom are living at home save the married daughter, who lives two miles east of her parent's home. The funeral services were held at the home Monday afternoon, April 14th, at 2 o'clock, Rev. Hoff officiating. Interment was made in the Sidney cemetery. The funeral cortege was large, showing the universal esteem in which the deceased was held.