OBITUARY ALL WRONG

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1695, 24 August 1904, Page 13

OBITUARY ALL WRONG

Here is a letter that a native of Anaconda wrote to a newspaper. Anaconda is a Western* town, and the writer is a miner there. His letter contradicted an obituary about himself that the newspaper had printed. “Sir, —I desire to call your attention to a few errors in your obituary of myself of Wednesday last. I was born in Washington, not in ‘Wheeling, and my retirement from the flour and feed business in ’96 was not due to ill-health but to hard times. The cause of my death was not pneumonia.” As a rule, of course, people do not write concerning their obituaries. But that does not prove that the obituaries are always correct.