The Princeton Union Jul 20 1905

REUBEN MAYO DIES
Was a Veteran of the Civil War and a Pioneer Lumberman of the Northwest. Death Results at His Home in Forestonfrom Effects of Wounds Received in Battle.

Reuben M. Mayo, a veteran of the civil war and a Minnesota pioneer, died at his home in Foreston. Mille Lacs county, on Saturday, July 15, aged seventy-two years.

Mr. Mayo was born in Waldo county, Maine, on May 9, 1833. He was reared in his native state and engaged in lumbering until coming to Minnesota in 1855. He followed his former occupation here until the commencement of the war, when he enlisted in Company E of the First Minnesota volunteer infantry.

He served with some distinction until wounded near Fairfax court house, after which he was compelled to remain in the hospital for months and was finally discharged for disability in consequence of the wounds received. Then returning to his native state he remained until 1866, when he again came to Minnesota and re-engaged in the lumber business both on the Mississippi and Rum Rivers, residing at that time upon the homestead of his father in Livonia, Sherburne county, and remaining there until about six years ago, when he settled upon the farm in Foreston.

Miss Addie E. Burroughs of Isanti county, who survives him. Among other surviving relatives are one brother, F. G. Mayo, Minneapolis: four sisters, Mrs. S. B. Heath, Mrs. Viola Wedgewood, Mrs. Fanny Heath, Princeton; Mrs. S. T. Thomas, Fargo, and numerous nephews and nieces, among them the McClellan brothers and Mrs. Rose Patterson, Princeton.

The deceased had been a great sufferer, and was compelled from the effects of wounds received in the war to resort to crutches in order to get about. For the past six years, however, he had been continually confined to the house and his death was not unexpected.

He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and a most honorable citizen.

The funeral ceremony was conducted in the Methodist church, Princeton, on Monday at 1 p. m. by Revs. Parkinson of Foreston and Hays of Hamline, the services at the grave in Oak Knoll cemetery being performed by members of the G. A. R. post of which deceased had been a member. The pallbearers were: M. C. Northway, S. Cone, F. Heuss, Foreston; C. H. Chute, F. S. Wood, Martin Leach, Princeton.

Reuben M Mayo