The following obituary from the Newspaper Archives website did not OCR very well, but was clear enough to manually decipher. If any of Mr. Sutton's descendants are reading this, they may want to copy it. Dwight Sutton 15 Sep 1870 - Indiana Progress - DEATH OF JAMES SUTTON, ESQ. On Saturday morning the 10th last at his residence in Indiana, James Sutton, Esq., died of Paralysis. This death was somewhat sudden. Less than two months have elapsed since the first attack of his disease, which to his usual vigorous health and until very recently, no one imagined fatal results would so soon follow. Mr. Sutton was born in the year 1812, and at the time of his death was in his 58th year. He was the eldest son of Thomas Sutton, Esq. who filled the office of Sheriff and other official positions in the earlier days of Indiana county. The name and character of his father is familiar to the older citizens of the county. James Sutton, now deceased, has been long and intimately identified with the business interests of Indiana county. Early in life he embarked in mercantile pursuits, which he followed with unceasing energy, prudent judgment, and marked success for many years. Soon after the completion of the line of the Penna. C. R. R. from Philadelphia to Pittsburg, the project of a branch road from Indiana to the main line was conceived. Mr. Sutton was one of its most active and earnest advocates, devoting much time and investing largely of his means to accomplish its success. He was conspicuous among those to whom our community was indebted for the completion of this enterprise so necessary to the prosperity of the business public. Having some years ago retired from mercantile pursuits he has been lately interested in the manufacture of straw boards and banking. For the last few years and at the time of death, was president of the First National Bank of Indiana. He has been identified with all the extensive business enterprises of the community in which he lived. By close attention, intelligent energy and careful prudence in all his business enterprises, he has accumulated a huge estate, which with the example of his business integrity and capacity falls to those who come after him. Few citizens of the county have not had in some way business transactions with James Sutton. The range, however, of his business connections was not confined to Indiana county. In his employmrnts od life he was indeed a representative man, as any man must be, who has been eminently sucessful in the sphere of his operations. No businessman in this community has been more successful than he. While he was strict and prompt in! his business requirements with others, yet he was just and honest, exacting no rule of proceeding from others, he did not scrupulously observe for himself. The value of his life was clearly indicated during his brief illness by the constant inquiring in the community after his welfare. His death makes a void sadly felt by all his fellow citizens. Within the past year Mr. Sutton had completed a large and most tastefully constructed residence adjoining Indiana, where, surrounded with the substantial comforts of life, be had hoped to pass the years which seemed yet before him, in the happiness of his family. In the course of nature it did not seem his time had come to join "the innumerable caravan that moves to that mysterious realm where each shall take his chamber in the silent halls of death". As a husband and father he had performed well his part, and with the larger portion of his family still in his household, many years of domestic comfort and happiness seemed before him. How vain are human hopes! Less than two months ago, without any premonitory symptoms, the heavy hand of disease fell upon him and carried him from the engrossing cares of a busy and useful life to the rest of the grave. "Weep not for he who dieth, For he sleeps and is at rest; And the couch whereon he lieth, In the green with a quiet breast" --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Y! Messenger - Communicate in real time. Download now.