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Hilton Head, S. C. Aug. 12th

Madame

It becomes my sad and painful duty to inform you that Mr. E. H. Athearn died at the U. S. General Hospital at Hilton Head at twenty minutes to eleven o'clock on the night of the 3rd of this month.

He had been been sick for several weeks of a slow typhoid fever but never been considered dangerous. It was thought that he was recovering and a few days before his death he requested the doctor to send him back to his company. I was not aware of his critical state until the afternoon of the day of his decease. I visited him several times that evening but he never aroused sufficiently to recognize me. He appeared to be