BORN IN: Massachusetts
DIED: 5/26/1901
AGED: 65
CAUSE OF DEATH: Apoplexy
DEATH LOCATION: Redwood City
OCCUPATION: SaloonKeeper
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BURIED IN UNION CEMETERY WITH THE SAME LAST NAME:
BURIED NEARBY IN PLOT U144:
- Beales, Edward
- Black, B W
- Brown, T Walter
- Carlson, Peter Frederich
- Covert, Henry Marcus
- Davis, John
- Haaf, Jacob
- L'Guirice, J C
- Manash, Tarobine
- Rice, Charles Arthur
- Rodoni, Joseph
- Schmidt, Fred A
- Shreve, William Henry
- Spitt, Heinrich Jacob
CURRENT EVENTS:- 1836 Revolver (Samuel Colt)
- 1845 Texas annexed into U.S.
- 1846 Mexican-American War
- 1849 California Gold Rush
- 1850 California became the 31st State
- 1860 The Pony Express
- 1861 Abraham Lincoln elected President
- 1861 American Civil War
- 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassinated
- 1866 Ku Klux Klan
- 1869 National Woman Suffrage Assoc.
- 1871 The Great Chicago Fire
- 1876 Telephones (Alexander Graham Bell)
- 1876 Baseball's National League
- 1877 Phonograph (Thomas Edison)
- 1879 Light Bulb (Thomas Edison)
- 1901 Teddy Roosevelt elected President
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OBITUARY ---------------JOSHUA LATHROP
Redwood City Democrat
May 30, 1901
Joshua H. Lathrop, who for over thirty years was a respected resident of this county, and during early years was a prosperous business man, died in this city Saturday night neglected and unattended, save the presence and unsuited ministrations of a friend who chanced to be near when his last illness came upon him.
A year ago Mr. Lathrop was afflicted with partial paralysis and on the advise of his doctor, he was taken to his wife and son in San Francisco. The latter has a good position in the commission house. After remaining in that city for a few months, Mr. Lathrop returned to Redwood City and would have been without a home were it not for the kindness of William Lathrop, who provided for him until his death occurred. Lathrop was a proud man and the thought of living on charity almost broke his heart, but the final blow came that, when friends advised, he asked for aid from the county. On Monday of last week, he tattered into the courthouse and applied to the Supervisors for the miserable pittance of $8.00 per month. His strength and health had left him, and in his childish weakness and bodily pain he wept most pathetically.
On Sunday he expected a visit from his son, whom he idolized and he sounded despondent at his non-arrival. While going to his room that night he was taken with a fainting spell and had to be carried to his bed, where he soon closed his eyes in death. The funeral took place Tuesday afternoon and he was laid to rest in Union Cemetery, Rev, J.J. Martin conducting the services at the grave.
Josh Lathrop was one of the best known of the county’s residents. No one has ever had cause to speak of him except in the highest terms and his melancholy death has awakened general sorrow among his many friends.
Lot 144U
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