Source: Clarkston Advertiser Oct 12, 1894

Cantrell, Isaac

Isaac Cantrell, one of the oldest settlers of Oakland County and a prosperous farmer of White Lake township, met with a fatal accident last Saturday night. He was at his abrn doing chores, and was climbing up a ladder leaning against a haystack, when in some manner he slipped and fell, injuring his spine and breaking a blood vessel in his head, it is thought, as he bled quite freely at the nose and mouth. he was carried to the house and a physician sumond, but nothing could be done for him. HE lingered along in great pain until Sunday morning when he died. He was born in Ireland, and came to this country when 28 years old, settling in Pontiac, working at his trade as a blacksmith for many years, and gaining a comfortable competence, when he bought this farm and moved on it. He was 78 years of age, and did not know that sickness was, often remarking that he would live to be 100.



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