# 1 - - Printed in The Enterprise, May 5, 1938

OLD SETTLER HERE SINCE 1882 PASSES

JOHN SUTHERLAND PASSED AWAY WEDNESDAY AT NEARLY 91 YEARS

HAD MANY FRIENDS

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John Sutherland, age 90 years, 5 months and 9 days, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Charles Lamb on Wednesday, May 4.

His place of nativity was Jackson county, Indiana, where he grew into manhood and where on December 12, 1867 he was married to Miss Eliza A. Cordill, and where the six older children were born.

In 1882 the family came to Nebraska and settled on a farm four miles west of Blair. Here three more children were born and here the family was reared and educated. Of the nine children, Wm. H. of San Antonio, Texas, Wesley of Blair, Newton of Cheyenne, Wyoming, Mrs. Charles Lamb of Blair, A. J. and Marion of Blair still survive. The remaining three, Mrs. R. A. Hooks, passed away August 11, 1936; Mead in April 15, 1900; and Howard April 15, 1922; and the wife and mother died February 2, 1918.

Besides the surviving children one brother, Will Sutherland, of Tekamah and a brother in Indiana, thirteen grandchildren and seventeen great-grandchildren survive.

To those who knew the deceased, the memory will be one of the deepest respect. In his farming activities he was a good neighbor, upright in his dealings and charitable in his statements of others, always a gentleman. The little trivial things seemed beneath his standard of living and when he moved to town in 1905 and gave over the active operations of his farm to others, he left a neighborhood where every man was his friend.

After his wife died he remarried and the widow still survives and mourns deeply her loss.

Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. Saturday from the Bendorf Funeral Home with Rev. Hamilton of the Baptist church of which he was a member officiating and interment will be made in the Blair cemetery.

# 2 - - from Pilot-Tribune, May 12, 1938

SUTHERLAND RITES HELD HERE SUNDAY

Postponed a day because of the snow and rain storm Saturday, funeral services for John Sutherland, 90, Blair resident who died last Wednesday after a long illness, were held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Bendorf Funeral Home. The Rev. Charles E. Hamilton of First Baptist Church officiated and interment followed in Blair Cemetery.

Pallbearers were John Sutherland, Everett Lamb, Victor Sutherland, Leo Hooks, and Ray Hooks.

Mr. Sutherland, a resident of Blair 56 years, is survived by his wife, Emily, to whom he was married several years after the death of his first wife; one daughter, Mrs. Belle Lamb of Blair; and five sons, J.W.; A.J.; and Marion of Blair; William of San Antonio, Texas; and Newton of Cheyenne.

# 3 - - Published in Pilot Tribune, May 5, 1938

JOHN SUTHERLAND IS DEAD AT AGE 90

BLAIRITE FOR 56 YEARS, FATHER OF SHERIFF, DIES AT HIS HOME

John Sutherland, 90, resident of Blair and vicinity for 56 years, died Wednesday at his home, 311 west Washington street, following a lengthy illness. He was the father of Sheriff Marion Sutherland.

Son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Sutherland, he was born in July, 1843 in Jackson county, Indiana. He was married there December 12, 1867 to Miss Eliza A. Cordill, and six children were born to the couple there before they came to Nebraska in 1882. After they settled on a farm west of Blair, three more children were born.

The Sutherlands retired from farming in 1905 and moved into Blair, where Mrs. Sutherland died February 2, 1918. He had been married again, to Mrs. Emily Ferris, since his first wife’s death.

Surviving Mr. Sutherland are his second wife and five sons, J.W.; A.J.; and Marion, all of Blair; William H. of San Antonio, Texas; and Newton of Cheyenne, Wyoming; and one daughter, Mrs. Charles Lamb of Blair. Three other children, Mead, Howard and Mrs. R. A. Hooks, preceded him in death. Also surviving Mr. Sutherland are a brother, Will, in Tekamah, and another brother in Indiana; 13 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren.

The body was taken to the Bendorf Funeral Home. Services will be held there at 2 p.m. Saturday, the Rev. Charles E. Hamilton of the Baptist church officiating. Interment will be in Blair Cemetery.

~~~ Obituaries courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~

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