Abram C. Roush (1861-1927)

FORMER RESIDENT DROPS DEAD

ABRAM C. ROUSH PASSES AWAY AT SHERIDAN, WYOMING. APPOPLEXY IS CAUSE.

Mr. and Mrs. Ben Laybourn received a telegram last Saturday announcing the sudden death of their son-in-law, Abram Roush, at Sheridan, Wyoming, where he resided with his family. Mr. Roush, with his family, formerly resided at Lake Village, and was well known to many of our people. He was a man greatly respected by all who knew him.

We take the following account of his death from a Sheridan, Wyoming, paper:

Abram Carson Roush, 66, an attendant at Fort Mackenzie, dropped dead while at work at the veterans' hospital at 10:30 this morning. Death was due to apoplexy. He has been in good health recently according to his family. After he had finished his work this morning he started toward the nurses' home with some medicine and it was on his way there that he collapsed. Acting Coroner J.F. Hoop was called, but Roush's death was attributed to natural causes.

He was born October 30, 1861. The family home is at 425 West Brundage street. Mr. Roush was a former employee of the Burlington railroad for 17 years as a machinist in the shops here. Since that time he had been a hospital attendant for more than a year. He was a local elder in the Latter Day Saints church, and was a member of the Modern Woodmen of America.

Mr. Roush was the father of Ivan Roush, whose body was the first of any World war veteran returned to Sheridan in 1918 for burial here.

He is survived by his widow; two daughters, Mrs. Robert Wallace, of Parkman, and Mrs. Rudy Zayas, of Sheridan; five sons, Percal, of Springfield, Oregon; Winwood C., of St. Louis, Mo.; Maitland, Burdette and Roy Roush of Sheridan; four grand children; two sisters, Mrs. Effie Rainford, of Lake Village, Ind., and Mrs. Emma Biggs, of Wheatfield, Ind.