Aberdeen Weekly News Thursday, Jan 12, 1893
ANOTHER PIONEER GONE
J. L. Fuller, one of the pioneers of the county, died at the residence of Mr. Dusser about five o’clock yesterday afternoon. The remains will be taken to Philadelphia for burial. Deceased was formerly a resident of Philadelphia, where he was a business man of conservable prominence and wealth. A number of years ago he lost between $200,000 and $300,000 in the Reading railroad stocks which so affected his mind that he has ever since been, to say the least, an eccentric gentleman. In 1882 he filed on a claim near Snake Creek, where he has since lived a sort of hermit’s life. He was probably the only man in Brown county who was the owner of government bonds. His relatives furnished him funds from time to time, which he invested in bonds. These, together with a will recently made, were deposited with the First National Bank of this city.
~Transcribed by volunteer researcher, Kathy Smith