The LaCygne Weekly Journal Linn County Friday January 6, 1899 For many months H.M. WOODRUFF of his place has been in failing health. His friends have been anxious about his physical condition for some time. Last Saturday evening the final came. He peacefully passed from this world to his eternal rest beyond the river. Henry M. WOODRUFF was born in Farmington, Connecticut, November 23, 1827, and died at his home in LaCygne, Kansas on December 31, 1898; age 71 years, 1 month, and 8 days. It was near the close of the last day of the glorious year of 1898 that the silver cord of life was severed. The beginning of the new year found LaCygne in sorrow for the departed one. The bells that chimed the incoming year were more of a death knell than of the joyous welcoming usually sounded. The deceased came to LaCygne in 1868 and has since made his home here. He had witnessed the growth of our prosperous little city from the time the first cabin was erected, and was always found assisting in the growth and development of his native town. He leaves two sons and two daughters by former marriages to share the sympathy of our people with the present Mrs. WOODRUFF. The funeral services were conducted at the residence Tuesday afternoon by Rev. E.J. NUGENT, pastor of the Presbyterian church at this place, after which the remains were conveyed to the Oak Lawn cemetery and tenderly laid to rest by the Masonic order of which the deceased had been a member for many years.