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Washington News_, Washington, IL, May 1, 1902, Page 8, Column 5.
DEATH OF A FORMER CITIZEN
T. E. Castle Sends NEWS of the Death of His Father.
We are in receipt of a letter from T. E. Castle of Stratton,
Nebraska, in which he encloses the following from the Trenton Register.
"Died, at his home in Stratton, Neb., Thursday, March 20, 1902,
Orin D. Castle of Brights disease, aged 77 years, 9 months and 20 days.
Mr. Castle was born in Licking county, Ohio, June 6, 1824. When at the
age of 12 years his father moved the family across the county by ox
team, and settled near Washington, Tazewell county, Illinois. Here Orin
grew up to manhood, and received the advantages of an every day
log-school house education and later learned the blacksmith trade.
"When at the age of 20 years he joined a company of volunteer
soldiers for the Mexican war at Nauvoo on the Mississippi river, but was
never mustered in for service. At the age of 25 he was married to Mary
J. Gibson, at Washington, Illinois, and raised a family of six
children. Mr. Castle was temperate in all habits and had a strong
constitution. He was a staunch anti-slavery man, and freely expressed
his opinion on all public questions. In 1887 he came to Holt county,
Nebraska, and in 1891 moved to Hitchcock county where he resided until
death. He was a member of the Baptist church and lived an upright and
earnest Christian life."
Mr. Castle was well known to a great many friends in Washington and
vicinity, and his death is regretted by many.
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