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- Newspaper Obituary - Thursday, June 25, 1868 Pulaski Democrat - Pulaski, New York - Death of F. M. Weed - Last week the news reached this place of the death of Fayette M. Weed, at Vinton, Iowa, on the 13th inst., of heart disease, aged nearly 25 years. He learned his trade as a printer in this office, and was a compositor here for a considerable time. Some two years since, he married the adopted daughter of Mrs. Butterfield, of Mexico, and removed to Vinton, where he for some time assisted in the conduct of a paper. He leaves a wife and child.
Newspaper Obituary - Thursday, September 24, 1868 Pulaski Democrat - Pulaski, New York - F. M. Weed - The death of this young man, recently a compositor in this office, seems to deserve some more extended mentioned that the brief announcement in our last issue. Mr. Weed came to Vinton, from Pulaski, New York, in the fall or winter of 1866, and shortly after, about January 1, 1867, commenced work in the Eagle Office. He continued in our employee until about November last, when he was induced, in connection with Mr. White, to undertake the publication of the Benton County News in this place, then already in course of publication. He continued to conduct News until its discontinuance, making it a very neat, well conducted paper. That the News could not prove a success was owing rather to the narrow field and to lack of means, then to any want of merit in the paper under his conduct. After a short visit East, Mr. Weed returned and again entered into our employee in the Eagle Office, where he continued until within a short time of his death. He had been off work for only about two weeks, and had been in the office two or three days before his death, proposing again to commence work the next clay. But this was not to be. His disease, hypertrophy of the heart, was too far advanced, and it is a matter of wonder to his physicians that he lived so long. He leaves a wife and a young child widowed and fatherless. -Vinton Eagle.
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Abt 1843 - 1868 (25 years)