BEDFORD WEEKLY MAIL BEDFORD, INDIANA FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1902 Stephen Burton, local agent for the U. S. Express Company, received word yesterday that his father, J. O. Burton, died at Flora, Ill. The deceased was the senior member of the Clay county bar, he was born in Lawrence county, Indiana, and has resided in Flora since 1883. He served as veteran in the civil war and in 1892 was the republican candidate for congress in the Sixteenth Illinois district. For a number of years he was city attorney at Flora. Stephen Burton left for Flora today to attend the funeral. Washington Democrat.