Shortly after going to press last week Tuesday we learned that "Uncle John" Waters, of Southfield, had been killed the day before. It seems that “he hitched up his horse in the morning, and went to Southfield Centre where he
stopped a short time and then started for Bedford. He had passed the residence of Captain Nichols, who saw him drive by the house and immediately afterward saw the horse come
running back along the road. Mr. Nichols at once ran quickly down the road and found Mr. Waters lying on his side and upon turning him over he gave one gasp and was dead
The vehicle had been overturned and it is thought Mr. W. had his neck broken in the fall, No one saw the accident, and hence the cause of the sad affair will never be known. Funeral services were held at his late home in Southfield Thursday. “Uncle John”
as he was generally called, was an outspoken, open-hearted man, who had ideas of his own and wasn’t afraid to give expression to them. Personally we shall miss him very much, and in our next issue we hope to publish a suitable sketch of his life.