I'm not sure how well you can read this, but it is an excerpt from the 14 October 1903 Lexington Gazette.  It is the obituary for my great-grandfather, Joseph Fultz. I had always heard that he died of appendicitis, and this confirms it.  Family lore says the unsuccessful operation took place on the dining room table--it's a big table. My grandmother's name was Janet, not Jeanette. She would have been about 15 years old at the time that he died.

I didn't realize that he was Methodist. When we lived in Fairfield, we went to Fairfield Presbyterian Church, so I always assumed that all the family members were Presbyterian. Maybe that was the Alexander influence.

This was another find through the Chronicling America efforts at http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/.