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    1. [INMONROE] Samuel O. Wylie Died
    2. Randi Richardson via
    3. No source noted, July 14, 1933, from an unidentified scrapbook of clippings titled COLLECTION OF LOCAL MONROE COUNTY OBITS donated to the Monroe County History Center, Bloomington, Indiana. NOTE: In the 1930 population census, Samuel O. Wylie and his wife, Lula, were enumerated at 1925 East Third Street, Bloomington. The end of the clipping was missing, as noted by the ellipsis, but a second, smaller item noted that interment was to be in Rose Hill. S. O. WYLIE, 77, DIES IN HOME EAST OF CITY Complications Fatal to Successful, Well-known Farmer S. O. Wylie, 77 years old, retired farmer, died at seven o'clock this morning in his home on East Third Street, rural, following more than a month's serious illness of complications. He was first stricken on Mother's Day, May 14, and was believed to havae been suffering from a heat stroke. Mr. Wylie, one of Monroe County's best known and most successful farmers, formerly resided northwest of Bloomington on a farm known as the Wylie Place in the Woodyard neighborhood. He was proprietor of a grocery store here for several years before his retirement and removal to the residence where death occurred. He was a partner of J. P. Shaffer in a store on the northeast corner of the square at one time. He leaves: the widow, Mrs. Lula Margaret Wylie; a son and daughter, Herman and Martha Wylie, both Presbyterian missionaries in China; a stepson, James M. Howe, of Chicago, and eight grandchildren, besides several more distant relatives and friends. The deceased was an active church worker being united at the time of his death with the First Methodist Church here. Funeral arrangements.

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