That sounds like a good deal, Sharon -- he stopped by and wooed 'em with his traveling drug job On 3/28/2014 3:04 PM, s.m.mills@comcast.net wrote: > I suspect the Doc came to town to make arrangements and walked into the newspaper article to give his spiel. He conned the obit writer into being impressed by him. So an obit was written with basically no information about the deceased, who may have had no other family in the area. Indeed sad. > Sharon Mills > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Cathi Frost" <cathiclorefrost@comcast.net> > To: inmontgo@rootsweb.com > Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 2:38:47 PM > Subject: Re: [InMontgo] Odd obit > > Sounds more like an advertisement for the doctor than an obit for his > cousin. > > On 3/28/2014 10:50 AM, Karen Zach wrote: >> I think this is one odd obit - anyone see the same as I did ?? >> >> Source: Waveland Independent March 22, 1901 -- James Shelburne, the old >> man who carried the mail between Rockville and Hollandsburg for the last >> 10 years died very suddenly, Monday night. He was a cousin of Dr. >> Shelburne of Zionsville. Dr. Shelburne was in town Monday looking >> cheerful, but much thinner. Traveling is training (sic) him down, but he >> can stand it. He is now dispensing pills by wholesale, whereas ordinary >> doctors do a retail business only. Suffering humanity puts up with a lot. >> >> http://indianagenweb.com/inmontgomery/ >> >> List Manager - inmontgo-admin@rootsweb.com >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INMONTGO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > http://indianagenweb.com/inmontgomery/ > > List Manager - inmontgo-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INMONTGO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > http://indianagenweb.com/inmontgomery/ > > List Manager - inmontgo-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INMONTGO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

On 3/28/2014 1:00 PM, Karen Zach wrote: > >>Source: Waveland Independent March 22, 1901 -- James Shelburne, the old > >>man who carried the mail between Rockville and Hollandsburg for the last > >>10 years died very suddenly, Monday night. He was a cousin of Dr. > >>Shelburne of Zionsville. Dr. Shelburne was in town Monday looking > >>cheerful, but much thinner. Traveling is training (sic) him down, but he > >>can stand it. He is now dispensing pills by wholesale, whereas ordinary > >>doctors do a retail business only. Suffering humanity puts up with a lot. This implies that the doctor was a local who now is a traveling wholesale salesman for a drug company, perhaps his own. Traveling has apparently trimmed him down from a previously larger girth, but the writer feels he can lose more weight. And yes the column is gossip, not an obit.