James McElwaine died at the hospital in Kansas City last Saturday night from the effects of the injury he received by falling from a fruit tree the previous Monday. He was a highly esteemed man whose deathwill be a shock to a great many. The funeral was held at the Methodist church Monday afternoon and the interment was in Olathe cemetery. He was aged seventy-six years.
 
Olathe Mirror
August 29, 1901
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