Hi - What paper and what date did you find the newspaper item in? I looked through microfilm at the Middletown library and couldn't find a mention of him, which I think is odd. I checked for the week following his 16 Sep 1893 death in the dailies and the next 2 issues in the weekly. I even checked this mailing list's archives to see that I wrote down the correct date. Although I found an item about a similar death in Trenton, NJ, plenty of other items for Port Jervis residents, even social notes from teensy-weensy Milford, PA, I didn't see anything about Elias' death. I looked at: Middletown Daily Press Middletown Daily Times Orange County Press I didn't look through the Middletown Argus as it's readily available online at ancestry.com and historical newspaper archive. I'll try to get to Port Jervis one day to look through the PJ paper, I just can't promise when. Yours, Julia