This Jan. 29, 1920, Lowell Tribune article also appears in the Lowell Public Library local history clipping files (LH--Vital Statistics, vol. 5, page 1):
The death of John Schmidt occurred at his home, west of this city on Wednesday afternoon, January 21, following a two weeks' illness with epidemic encephalitis. He was 49 years, 7 months and 29 days old and leaves a wife, three sons, one daughter, two brothers, Math and Peter, both of Mississippi, and two sisters, Mrs. Emma Hasse, of Hanover Center, and Mrs. Susan Kretz, of Lowell. Funeral services were held at St. Martin church of Hanover Center. -- Crown Point Register.