

  <p>Ludwig, Daniel</p>
  <p>Passed: 1899-12-24</p>
  <p>Age: 66</p>


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  <p>Obituary Date: 1899-12-28</p>
  <p>Information: Among the hundreds of Christmas shoppers in Ripley, Saturday from the surrounding farm houses was ""Uncle"" Daniel Ludwig of Sycamore. None greeted his friends more cheerfully and his geniality exceeded even itself. About the middle of the afternoon he started home in his hack beside his young son of 13 or 14 who held the lines. Just out of town he came up with ""Johnny"" Ferguson afoot whom he invited into the hack, giving him a seat on a box, near the top of the descent leading to the bridge at Robert Vail&#39;s farm the horses got beyond control of their driver and ran. Mr Ferguson managed to get to the rear end of the hack and thence to the ground without injury. The boy driver also sprang clear, unhurt. Mr Ludwig was thrown across the drain running from Mr Vail&#39;s field and his face buried in the soft ground. He was first reached by Henrey Hogsett, who had been in his brother Jim&#39;s wagon that had given the road for the runaway team. Though groaning, he was unconscious, his face bruised, and his skull broken. He was brought to town on Henrey Hogsett&#39;s wagon and taken to Drs. Staats&#39; office, where operated apon and a piece of the skull removed, and died at 3 Sunday morning without regaining consciousness. Mr. Henrey Hogsett thinks the injuries inflicted against the hack&#39;s dash-board, which was found broken when John Coast on horseback, caught and stopped the runaway team, and says there was nothing near the place of the fall against which the blow could have been struck. Mr. Vail thinks this correct. Interment was made Monday in the new grave-yard recently deeded by Mr. Ludwig for cemetery purposes. Mr. Ludwig was 66 years old, a native of Germany, was a Union soldier from Ohio and had been a resident of this section for a quarter of a century and enjoyed the respect of his neighbors to an enviable degree. A wife,Louisa Walters Ludwig, several sons and two married daughters , Mrs James Jacob Landfried, and A.L. Custer, survive him.               	   	   	                         </p>


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