This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Lane Lynch Mason Evans Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FMB.2ACE/2329 Message Board Post: Sedalia Daily Democrat, Tuesday, October 6, 1874, p. 4 Sudden Death William Henry Lane, aged 50 years, died at the Lynch House, in Sedalia, Sunday evening last, at 10 o'clock. Mr. Lane, with wife and son, left Joplin, Mo, a few days ago, for this vicinity having relatives residing on the Mason farm, north from Georgetown, hoping that the change of locality would be beneficial to the ravages of his disease - consumption. Arriving on Sunday morning's M.K. & T. train from the South, his feeble health won the sympathies of everyone. From the train he was take to the train depot, where he was carefully watched by friends, and was conveyed to Mr. Lynch's boarding house. Here Dr. Evans was summoned, who together with Mr. Lynch and family and others present, bestowed every care and attention. But the disease had so reduced him physically, that but a slender cord marked the line between life and death. At ten o'clock the poor man breathed his last - quietly he slept the long sleep which knows no waking, a vicim to that insiduous, fell destroyer of human life. Mr. Lane was born near Danville, Ky, and came to Missouri seventeen years ago, three years of which were passed in Newton Co. For the past two years he has resided in Joplin, engaged in mining, with the assistance of his son. His oldest son, 16 years old, accompanied him in his journey here. The remainder of his family are moving to this county overland, and will arrive about Saturday. The deceased is said to have been an estimitable citizen, and leaves a large circle of sympathing friends. He was buried yesterday evening in the family burying ground on the Mason farm.