It is not very often that four bodies are carried to their last resting from our little town in as many days, but such was the melancholy fact this week...
The second case was that of a young man named Henry Potter, who died in the Hospital on the 8th inst. He was a son of Mr Wm. Potter of Gladbrook Station. For some years past the deceased had been working on Linnburn Station, where by his cheerful nature and kindly and obliging manner he won for himself many friends. His illness, consumption of the throat, has extended over many months, and almost from the very first was considered hopeless. Last October he was brought to the hospital but after remaining a month his friends were advised that nothing could be done for him. A trip to Dunedin did him no good, so he determined to return to the Naseby Hospital, where he remained until the fatal issue supervened. As a patient he was most uncomplaining. During his whole illness a murmur never escaped his lips. The deceased was only 26 years of age. His body was taken to Middlemarch on Tuesday. -Otago Witness, 7/2/1894.
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