The Republic
Columbus, Indiana
Friday, January 6, 1911
Page 1

LATE E.C. SWARTWOOD DIED OF APOPLEXY

And His Body, Which Arrived This Morning. Will Be Laid to Rest in Garland Brook Cemetery.

The body of the late E.C. Swartwood, aged 48 years, who died suddenly of apoplexy at his home in Peoria, Ill., arrived here this morning and was taken to his former home on McKinley avenue in East Columbus, where funeral services will be conducted at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon by Rev. G.M. Shutt, of Seymour. Burial in Garland Brook cemetery. He was a member of the Masons, Knights of Pythias and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and members of these orders are invited to attend the funeral and interment.

The body was accompanied here by G.W. Wheatley and Walter Trimmer, railway engineers of Bloomington, Ill. Mr. Swartwood suffered an attack of apoplexy last Saturday evening and died on the following Wednesday. He had been an engineer for the Chicago & Alton Railway company for fifteen years and his headquarters had been at Peoria for eveven years. He is survived by a widow and two step-daughters, and a number of brothers and sisters, of whom Melvin Swartwood and Mrs. James Rush live in East Columbus.