Obituary.
Louis B. Chamberlain was born in Bradford county Pa., March 12, 1827, died at his home in Richland Oct. 11, 1905, of heart failure, caused mainly by advanced age.
In his youth the received a common school education and was made familiar with the vocations of the farm and most of his life he was a farmer. On Nov. 16, 1851, in his 24th year, he was united in marriage with Miss Mary J. Otterson, a maiden of the neighborhood of his youth and such union has continued for nearly fifty-four years.
He enlisted in the Union Army in Second Pa. regiment in 1864 and served faithfully for about two year to the close of the war and was then honorably discharged.
Several years after, suffering from infirmities caused by service rendered his country and advancing years, he applied for and received a small pension from the government.
In the fall of 1870 he came with his family to Dakota territory seeking a home for himself and family in the western country, and although Government homesteads were all around a little ways out on the frontier, he bought a comfortable little farm home adjoining the village of Richland in Union county, now South Dakota, where, to be near school for his children, he located his home and has since resided, much of the time a member of the school board and always an upholder of the school.
While not a church member, he was always an admirer of the true christian and an upholder of the church. For the last seven or more years his health was infirm and for nearly three years preceding death he was blind and confined to his room, but as the infirmities of age and sickness pressed upon him, he was able more and more to cast his care upon God and take the Christian hope for his consolation.
He met death with a clear mind and calmly and quietly passed away from earthly scenes on the morning of Oct. 19, 1905, in the 78th year of age. He leaves to mourn their loss, the wife, in infirm health, two sons and five daughters.
The funeral service was conducted by Rev. Moore, pastor of the M. E. church, Akron, Iowa. It was an impressive, comforting, admonition, to the neighbors gathered as well as the bereaved to be also ready for the summons of the death angel. His remains were conducted by his friends and neighbors to the Richland cemetery and there laid away to rest until the resurrection call.
Source: Union County Courier Elk Point, SD
Thursday, October 26, 1905, pg 8
Submitted by: Linda Ziemann, transcriber