Aberdeen Weekly News Friday Apr 18, 1890
J. J. Matteson
MATTESON — Died of Pneumonia, April 3rd, 1890, at the age of 69.
Mr. J. J. Matteson, one of the early settlers of Westport, Brown county, South Dakota. Funeral services conducted by Rev. J. L. Brown, of the M. E. church, were held at the church in Westport, at 3:00 p.m. Friday, April 4th. The remains were taken to Winona, Minn., for burial.
The wife and children of the deceased take this method of expressing their appreciate and heart-felt thanks, to the friends and neighbors for they sympathy and assistance during the sickness and death of husband and father.
~Transcribed by volunteer researcher, Kathy Smith