A lightly edited
partial transcription of the Items of Local Interest column on page 7 of the
11 Sep 1919 issue of the Simcoe Reformer
newspaper.
After an illness of several
years' duration, with the past eight months spent in bed, George
S. Appleford died on Sunday,
7 Sep 1919, at the family home, Nanticoke, from organic disease of
the heart.
Deceased was in his 57th
year and leaves a wife and four children, two boys and two girls,
all at home.