# 1 - - The funeral of Richard O'Hanlon, who died last Thursday evening at the home of his brother Clark in this city, took place from the residence on Friday afternoon, and was largely attended, for he was a worthy young man whose early decease caused general sympathy and condolence with his bereaved mother and other relatives. The services were conducted by Rev. Green of the Baptist Church, assisted by Rev. Etherton of the Congregational society. The remains were interred in Blair Cemetery by the side of a brother who was suffocated in a well some fifteen years ago when the family lived near Herman village on a farm.

# 2 - - from The Pilot, August 23, 1897

RICHARD O'HANLON

The Pilot regrets that facts are such that it becomes necessary to publish a sketch of the life of Richard O'Hanlon Jr. and the account of his death more especially as he was overly ambitious to live. His is the third death in the family, one brother about fifteen years ago went down into a well to get a bucket and deadly gas claimed him a victim. His father died this spring.

Richard was born in Washington county twenty-two years ago December 16 next. Four years ago his parents moved south and two years since he went to Colorado where he had a married brother living. In February while chopping down a tree a dead limb fell and struck him on the base of the skull, probably fracturing it, resulting in tuberculosis of the brain from the effects of which he has been gradually failing until last Thursday when the end came. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Green assisted by Rev. Etherton, and the remains laid away in the family lot in the cemetery.

Richard came back to this county in April and has spent most of his time at his uncle's west of Herman, where he has been attended by Dr.Lukens of Tekamah, who for years was their family doctor. The Pilot joins their many friends in extending sympathy to the four sisters and seven brothers and mother who are left to mourn the loss of a kind and dutiful brother and son.

Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file at the Blair Public Library.